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Displaying 4781 - 4785 of 5073Agricultural Land Use Plan for Letlhakane agricultural district central region.
This report is the result of a two-year study of Letlliakane Agricultural District (LetAD), carried out by the Agricultura! Land Use Planners of the Ministry of Agriculture (Central Region). The
main objective of the study is to provide planners, agricultural extension staff and community leaders with sound recommendations for improved and sustainable agricultural production and
possible solutions for major land use problems and conflicts. The study includes an inventory of the natural resources, population, farmer groups and economy of the area, the identification of
Economic and financial aspects of leasing state forest land
The Government of South Africa has a major holding of forest land, with a total estate
covering 892,000 ha of forest and associated land. Within the state's forest holding there is a
wide diversity of forest and land types including: commercial plantations and other afforested
land; indigenous forests; legally protected (indigenous) forest areas; and associated bare land.
This land is partly owned by the state and partly held on behalf of local communities, some of
No-Tillage Farming for Sustainable Land Management: Lessons from the 2000 Brazil Study Tour
The Occasional Paper Series published by the FAO Investment Centre covers technical briefs, research treatises and particularly useful case studies.
Roads, land use, and deforestation: A spatial model applied to Belize
Rural roads promote economic development, but they also facilitate deforestation.
To explore this tradeoff, this article develops a spatially explicit model of land use
and estimates probabilities of alternative land uses as a function of land characteristics
and distance to market using a multinomial logit specification of this model.
Controls are incorporated for the endogeneity of road placement.
The model is applied to data for southern Belize, an area experiencing rapid
Lessons Learned from the Northern Cape Land Reform Project
This article brings together key lessons from the Northern Cape Land Reform Project in which FARM-Africa works with the South African Government to support six poor Northern Cape communities that have benefited from the Government's Land Reform Programme.