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Displaying 4781 - 4785 of 5073Roads, 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
Land Resource Study of Hodeidah Green Belt Area.
In this report the results are presented from the soil survey carried out in the Green Belt area around Al-Hodeidah. This report covers the relevant parts of the Tihama coastal plain, including part of the wadi Siham alluvial plain. A soil map, land use map, vegetation map and physiographic map, all at a scale of 1 : 50.000, were prepared. The total area covered is approximately 15200 ha, situated in a half circle around Hodeidah city. The soils are in general homogeneous with little pedogenetic development, and variable degrees of salinity and sodium content.
Proceedings of the Expert Consultation on Integrated Management of Land andWater Conservation within an Agro-Sylvo- Pastoral System
The "Expert Consultation on Integrated Management of Land and Water within an Agro-SylvoPastoral System" was held in Safita, Syria (Cham Safita Palace Hotel) during the period 16-18 June 1997.The Consultation was jointly organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform of Syria and the FAD Regional Dffice for the Near East, RNE, Cairo, Egypt.
Proposed agricultural land use plan for former freehold farms 25/77 NQ and 27/77 NQ North East District
Farms 25/77 NQ and 27/77N0, located in North East District, were acquired by the Government
from the freeholder, Mr Blackbeard in 1990. The purchase followed the recommendations of the
consultants appointed to conduct the feasibility study of the Lower Shashe dam (SMEC, 1990), and
had the objective of providing compensatory land for Matopi villagers who need to be relocated
before flooding of the reservoir.
During the latter part of 1990, the Tati Land Board proposed compensating Matopi residents by
Emergency in Ituri, DRC: Political complexity, land and other challenges in restoring food security
This paper explains the political and economic complexities of the ongoing Ituri crisis, focusing on the role of land. In Ituri, mineral-rich land is at the core of the crisis and therefore, at the core of the longer-term programming needed to restore food security. But food insecurity in eastern DRC has a history. The paper argues that the ambigous Bakajika land law, introduced in 1973 and responsible for the emergence of a vast class of landless people, lies at the root of large-scale poverty, insecurity and spiralling violence.