Agricultural land use pattern dynamics in the Sudan–Sahel—towards an event-driven framework

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Reenberg
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Pattern Dynamics ◽  
Event Driven ◽  
Use Pattern

scholarly journals The Role of Agricultural Land Use Pattern Dynamics on Elephant Habitat Depletion and Human-Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2818
Author(s):  
J. M. P. N. Anuradha ◽  
Miho Fujimura ◽  
Tsukasa Inaoka ◽  
Norio Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Pattern Dynamics ◽  
Dry Zone ◽  
Use Pattern

The drastic depletion of elephant habitats in the dry zone of Sri Lanka has led to intense human-elephant conflict (HEC) in a region that is home to one of the celebrated agrarian settlements in Asia. Known as the tank villages, these settlements have a long history of human coexistence with elephants and other wild animals. However, the escalating incidence of human-elephant fatalities and crop losses to farmers indicates that the mode of interaction between the tank village inhabitants and the elephants has transformed from coexistence to conflict. Both population and agricultural land use pattern dynamics have contributed to agricultural expansion and loss of elephant habitat in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. However, our knowledge of how the agricultural land use pattern dynamics has contributed to the drastic depletion of elephant range in the dry zone is limited. This research attempted to gain insight into the role of agricultural land use dynamics on elephant habitat depletion and HEC in Sri Lanka through the study of Kuttikulama, a dry zone tank village. The data were collected through focus group discussions, key informant interviews and a cross sectional survey. The study revealed that agricultural land use patterns in traditional dry zone villages have changed in major ways over the last few decades. Such changes included the transition from a shifting-cultivation mode of farming to a fixed sequential mode of farming, the expansion of the per capita cropping area, and the disappearance of communality in agricultural land use patterns. The changes were found to have significantly contributed to a shift in human–elephant interactions from relatively harmonious ones to contentious ones. The study reveals the potential of traditional and alternative cropping and land use systems to minimize human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka.

scholarly journals Impact of Landform on Agricultural Land Use Pattern: A Case Study of Salda River Basin in Purulia District, West Bengal

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Mahato ◽  
N. C. Jana
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
Purulia District ◽  
Geomorphic Processes

The present study is concerned with the analysis of landform characteristics of Salda River basin and its impact on agriculture land use pattern. The Salda basin is one of the sub-basins of Subarnarekha River, with diversified landscape pattern in the western part of Purulia district in West Bengal. This basin is constituted by plateaus, plains with terraces, scarps, inselbergs, which is evolved under polycyclic evolution. The development of polycyclic geomorphic processes in this basin is typified by diverse morphology and drainage, which largely influence the land use pattern in this area. These diverse landscape patterns indicate the interaction of litho-tectonic-structural and various geomorphic processes with recent human intervention. The main objectives of the present study are to analyse the landforms characteristics, correlate them with land use and identify problems as well as prospects of agricultural land utilization. The entire study is based on both primary and secondary data. Extensive field survey has been conducted to collect primary information regarding terrain characteristics, micro relief, slope characteristics, hydrological attributes, soil character, natural vegetation, environmental hazards. The Survey of India topographical sheets, meteorological data, agricultural production data, land use and land cover data have been collected for the analysis of geomorphological characteristics, land classification, and agricultural land use pattern. This study reflects the typical land characteristics of the fringe area of Chhotanagpur plateau, where some typical geomorphic attributes control the productivity of the land and also controls the socio-economic conditions of the local people. The present authors have tried to examine the typical geomorphic attributes and their effects on present productivity of the land in a micro level study, where agriculture is the main source of income.

scholarly journals Prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
MS Hosain ◽  
MW Islam
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Land Use System ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
Agro Forestry ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Agroforestry Practices

The study aims to explore the prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh. It particularly focuses on some aspects of land uses of the study area like land use pattern, land ownership, choices of species for agroforestry, farmers’ perceptions towards agroforestry, status and prospects of agroforestry practices. This study was carried out by using mixed method followed by a semi-structure questionnaire. A total of 100 respondents were selected by using snowball purposive sampling method. The study revealed that agriculture was the major occupation (50%) of the selected respondents. Of the total land used by selected respondents, 21% land were used for agroforestry, 69% for agriculture and remaining 10% for homestead purposes. Most of the farmers (60%) were small landholders (1 to 5 acres) and 18% had lesser than 1 acre land. Among them 76% had their own land followed by 8% leased land and 16% both own and leased land. They preferred agroforestry in their homestead (92%), agricultural land (65%), water body (31%) and fallow land (18%). The farmers were practicing different types of agroforestry such as cropland, homestead and aquaculture with boundary plantation by mixing trees, agricultural crops and vegetables in their farmlands to receive diversified outcomes. A remarkable change in land use pattern was found after adopting agroforestry practices in this study area. Maximum respondents practiced agro-forestry in their homestead and croplands. Most of the land (67%) was used for agriculture cultivation while a very small amount of land was used as agroforestry in the study area.Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech. 7 (2): 1-6, December, 2017

scholarly journals FARMLAND CONVERSION AND CHANGES IN THE LAND- USE PATTERN IN THE POZNAŃ AGGLOMERATION OVER THE YEARS 2000–2009

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Kacprzak ◽  
Barbara Maćkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Large City ◽  
Full Information ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Farmland Conversion ◽  
Spatial Differences ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Abstract The pressure exerted by a large city determines non-agricultural forms of land use in areas situated in its neighbourhood. Among the most alarming consequences of urban sprawl onto the surrounding areas are a steady and irreversible shrinkage of farmland and conflicts resulting from a mix of functions performed by the areas. This article describes the dynamics, scale and spatial differences of the process of taking agricultural land out of production in the Poznań agglomeration in the 21st century in terms of changes in the land-use pattern. In characterising the converted land, it also presents chief directions of its transformation, the regulations in force, and the resultant lack of full information about factual, and not only partial, conversions.

scholarly journals Tracing fire cultivation in Estonia

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liisi Jääts ◽  
Kersti Kihno ◽  
Pille Tomson ◽  
Marge Konsa
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Fire Use ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Different Parts

Tracing fire cultivation in EstoniaFire cultivation is possibly the agricultural land-use method of the longest duration in Estonia; yet still it has attracted little attention from researchers. The aim of this paper is two-fold: firstly, to discuss the latest stage of historical bushland management via fire cultivation as it appears in historical sources, and secondly to look for ways in which the natural historical research methods can be combined with those of the humanities in search of more complex understanding of land-use dynamics. The material analysed are the 19thcentury agrarian laws and ethnographic data. These sources show that researchers have so far rather under- than overestimated the persistence and spread of fire use - a number of fire cultivation cases are reported even from the early 20th century from different parts of Estonia. Thus we suggest that bushland management with fire cultivation methods has continued longer than previously assumed. Analysis of the 19thcentury Livonian agrarian laws shows that legislation of the period directed the land-use pattern away from the earlier practice of a mosaic or scattered patchwork of wooded areas and cleared fields, towards bigger wooded areas and more compact cultivated areas, thus bringing about changes in the landscape.

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