FARMING SYSTEMS IN TWO LESS FAVOURED AREAS IN PORTUGAL: THEIR DEVELOPMENT FROM 1989 TO 2009 AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nádia Jones ◽  
Jan de Graaff ◽  
Filomena Duarte ◽  
Isabel Rodrigo ◽  
Ate Poortinga
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Management

Issues of sustainability and sustainable land management

1995 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Zinck ◽  
A. Farshad
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Land Management System

The concept of sustainability shows many facets. Ecologists, environmentalists, agronomists, sociologists, economists and politicians use it with different connotations. In addition, the sustainability of land management systems varies in space, according to climate, soil, technology and societal conditions. Sustainable farming systems vary also in time, as they evolve and may collapse, frequently together with the corresponding sociosystems. Because of its complexity, sustainability is difficult to measure directly and requires the use of appropriate indicators for assessment. A good indicator is free of bias, sensitive to temporal changes and spatial variability, predictive and referenced to threshold values. Relevant data are often incomplete or inadequate for indicator implementation. To embrace the whole width of sustainability, several methods and techniques should be used concurrently, including land evaluation and coevolutionary, retrospective and knowledge-based approaches. It is, however, at the application level that major constraints arise. A sustainable land management system must satisfy a large variety of requirements, including technological feasibility, economic viability, political desirability, administrative manageability, social acceptability, and environmental soundness. Real world conditions at farm and policy-making levels need to be substantially improved to achieve sustainable land management. Key words: Definition, assessment and implementation issues of sustainable land management

North Otago Sustainable Land Management Group: Assisting the North Otago community to move towards the goal of sustainable land use

1996 ◽  
pp. 101-105
Author(s):  
G. Ludemann ◽  
D.C. Hewson ◽  
R. Green
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
The North ◽  
Management Group ◽  
Market Opportunities

The North Otago area has a climate that often fluctuates from severe drought to flood in a short space of time. The climatic extremes, and some unsustainable land use practices can put the area's fragile loessial soils at risk of water and wind erosion. This paper outlines an approach used in North Otago which has enabled the community to identify its sustainability and environmental issues and begin to make changes to land use and farmer attitudes. A group of key farmers was brought together to oversee the preparation of Sustainable Land Management Guidelines for the downlands. (This group became the North Otago Sustainable Land Management Group - NOSLaM Group.) From this grew a wide-ranging community-driven project with a full-time co-ordinator, and a vision to have most land users adopting sustainable farming systems. This should ensure the area is ready to meet the world market demands for environmental quality in food and fibre production. The Group will promote individual environmental farm plans which will have a monitoring component. Some farmers will work towards some form of property accreditation such as ISO 14001. This pilot project will be highlighting the economic benefits of environmentally sound farming methods, through seminars, field-days, newsletters and a demonstration farm. The Group is working in partnership with farmers, the processing industry and marketing people to identify market opportunities for the area's food and fibre produced by environmentally friendly farming systems. Keywords: cultivation, environment, Environmental Farm Plans, erosion, guidelines, ISO 14001 accreditation, market opportunities, monitoring, sustainable land use, sustainability

Framework for evaluation of sustainable land management: A case study of two rain-fed cereal-livestock farming systems in the Black Chernozemic soil zone of southern Alberta, Canada

1995 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gameda ◽  
J. Dumanski
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Chernozemic Soil ◽  
Soil Zone ◽  
Land Use System

The Framework for Evaluation of Sustainable Land Management (FESLM) was used to assess the sustainablility of two land-use systems in the Canadian Prairies. The FESLM provided a means of identifying the factors impacting on sustainability, the processes by which these factors operate and interact, and the indicators and thresholds by which they could be measured to attain an assessment end point. On the basis of the framework, it was possible to expand sustainability assessment beyond traditional factors of productivity and economic viability to include ones pertaining to production risk, protection of the natural resource base, and social acceptability. In conducting the FESLM-based analysis, the decision-making characteristics of the producer were identified as important components of sustainability. Preliminary indications are that substantially greater amounts of farm-specific and regional data are required to make a conclusive FESLM-based sustainability assessment. Nevertheless, application of the framework suggests that, for the farming systems and the type of producer under consideration, the conservation-based land-use system is more sustainable than the conventional land-use system. Key words: Sustainable land management, Black Chernozemic soil zone, livestock farming

CHARACTERISING INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT IN INDIAN HIMALAYAN SLOPING LANDS

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 431-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. RAIS ◽  
D. C. SHARMA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Eastern Himalayas ◽  
Sloping Lands ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Hill

Viewing environmental perspectives and growing concerns related to ecological balance in nature together with social, agricultural, industrial and economic developments, sustainable development of ecosystems has become a crucial issue with a particularity to hill and mountain regions around the world. Out of a vast coverage on sustainable development, SLM (Sustainable Land Management) is one important ecosystem module that itself has a wider expansion and is construed of several folds and dimensions which have been standardised well by an international working group consisted of Agriculture Canada, IBSRAM (now merged with IWMI), FAO, TROPSOIL, USDA-SCS, IFDC and others in the form of a standardised guideline, i.e., FESLM (Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Land Management). In view of a comprehensive account on SLM, indicators of sustainability of land management have been characterised on the basis of five pillars viz. productivity, security, protection, economic viability and acceptability in the hill areas covering a long stretch of western, eastern and entire north-eastern Himalayas encompassing the states of J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Assam Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur etc. in the present study. Various parameters have been chosen to carve out indicators satisfying each basic five pillar of the FESLM standard. Also, the efficacy of these indicators has been observed on some of the important agricultural systems being used in practice in different sloping lands in India; thus, it has been concluded that the sustainability needs to be enhanced in north-eastern Himalayan farming systems.

Indicators of land quality and sustainable land management

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Dumanski ◽  
Samuel Gameda ◽  
Christian Pieri ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Land Quality

scholarly journals Relationships and the Determinants of Sustainable Land Management Technologies in North Gojjam Sub-Basin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6365
Author(s):  
Alelgn Ewunetu ◽  
Belay Simane ◽  
Ermias Teferi ◽  
Benjamin F. F. Zaitchik
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Blue Nile ◽  
The North

Sustainable land management (SLM) is a leading policy issue in Ethiopia. However, the adoption and continuous use of SLM technologies remain low. This study investigates the interrelationship of adopted SLM technologies and key factors of farmers’ decisions to use SLM technologies in the North Gojjam sub-basin of the Upper Blue Nile. The study was based on the investigation of cross-sectional data obtained from 414 randomly selected rural household heads, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. Descriptive statistics and Econometric models (i.e., Multivariate Probit and Poisson regression) were used to analyze quantitative data, while a content analysis method was used for qualitative data analysis. Results indicate that at least one type of SLM technology was implemented by 94% of farm households in the North Gojjam sub-basin. The most widely used technologies were chemical fertilizer, soil bund, and animal manure. Most of the adopted SLM technologies complement each other. Farm size, family size, male-headed household, local institutions, perception of soil erosion, livestock size, total income, and extension service increased the adoption probability of most SLM technologies. Plot fragmentation, household age, plot distance, off-farm income, market distance, and perception of good fertile soil discourage the adoption probability of most SLM technologies. To scale up SLM technologies against land degradation, it is important to consider households’ demographic characteristics, the capacity of farm households, and plot-level related factors relevant to the specific SLM technologies being promoted.

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