Four Pillars of digital land resource mapping to address information and capacity shortages in developing countries

Geoderma ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 352 ◽  
pp. 299-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Ringrose-Voase ◽  
G.J. Grealish ◽  
M. Thomas ◽  
M.T.F. Wong ◽  
M.R. Glover ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Resource Mapping

The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Land Resources Appraisal

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.G. Sombroek ◽  
J. Antoine
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Training Support ◽  
Village Communities

Nations, village communities and individual land users need to make choices about land use in order to support development without risk of land degradation. Computerized land information systems (LIS) based on geographic information systems (GIS) have emerged as powerful tools for generating maps and reports to inform such decisions. Recently, FAO has been developing GIS/LIS systems in linkage with its agroecological zoning (AEZ) and other models, and using them to tackle issues of land, food and people at global, national and subnational levels. They have been successfully developed for land resource management at different scales, but practical difficulties have been encountered in making them accessible to the casual user in most developing countries, due to scarcity of data and poor training support.

Land Resource Mapping and Monitoring

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Gouri Sankar Bhunia ◽  
Pravat Kumar Shit
Keyword(s):  
Land Resource ◽  
Resource Mapping

A district evaluation of fuelwood resources in Nepal

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 594-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. T. Smith ◽  
G. Kennedy ◽  
P. B. Shah ◽  
H. Schreier
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Inventory Data ◽  
Resource Mapping ◽  
Consumption Situation ◽  
Policy Attention

This paper assesses the production/consumption situation for fuelwood for each district of Nepal over the period 1981 to 2034. The inventory data base for forestry produced by the Land Resource Mapping Project (LRMP 1986) formed the basis for the assessment. The purpose of the fuelwood assessment is to provide results which can be used to direct foreign aid and policy attention to those districts having the most serious fuelwood problems. The results indicated that 21 of the 75 districts in Nepal were in a deficit position for fuelwood in 1981. Under current conditions of use and management, an additional 26 districts could be expected to become deficient in fuelwood sometime between 1982 and 2034. Keywords: districts of Nepal, fuelwood production/consumption

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