scholarly journals Food-for-work for poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable land use: can it work?

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEIN HOLDEN ◽  
CHRISTOPHER B. BARRETT ◽  
FITSUM HAGOS
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Northern Ethiopia ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Labor Allocation ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Private Investments ◽  
Crowd Out

Food-for-work (FFW) programs are commonly used both for short-term relief and long-term development purposes. This paper assesses the potential of FFW programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run. There is a danger that such programs distort labor allocation or crowd out private investments and therefore have unintended negative effects. We explore this issue using survey evidence from northern Ethiopia that we use to motivate a simple theoretical model, a more detailed version of which we then implement through an applied bio-economic model calibrated to northern Ethiopia. The analysis explores how FFW project outcomes may depend on FFW project design, market conditions, and technology characteristics. We show that FFW programs may either crowd out or crowd in private investments and highlight factors that condition whether FFW promotes or undercuts sustainable land use.

scholarly journals Examining the Relationship between Urban Land Expansion and Economic Linkage Using Coupling Analysis: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bowen Chen ◽  
Changyan Wu ◽  
Xianjin Huang ◽  
Xuefeng Yang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Urban Land Expansion ◽  
The Relationship

Urban land expansion (ULE) has caused negative effects as a result of urbanization and industrialization in China in the past few decades. Strengthening economic linkage and the cooperation among regions has great implications for effectively controlling disorderly ULE and achieving sustainable and intensive land use. Previous research has rarely investigated the relationship between ULE and economic linkage. Therefore, this study analyzes the spatial patterns of ULE and economic linkage in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) of China via social network analysis and a gravity model. Moreover, the spatial relationship and coupling level between ULE and economic linkage are investigated by building a bivariate spatial autocorrelation model and a coupling coordination degree model, respectively. The results indicate that the YREB experienced rapid ULE, and the area increased from 4.24 × 104 km2 in 1990 to 7.89 × 104 km2 in 2015. The cities that experience rapid ULE have gradually transferred from the east to the west of the YREB. In addition, the economic linkage in eastern cities is evidently higher than that of western cities. Our bivariate spatial model further proves that there are strong negative spatial correlation characteristics between ULE and economic linkage. This indicates that the higher the economic linkage, the lower the speed of ULE. Moreover, the coupling coordination between ULE and economic linkage show that the overall coupling stage changed from an antagonistic stage to a running-in stage. However, the coupling coordination in the YREB presented significant spatial heterogeneity, and most cities in urban agglomeration had a relationship between ULE and economic linkage that was barely balanced, slightly unbalanced, or seriously unbalanced. By considering the limitations and obstacles of current initiatives, suggestions and policy implications for sustainable land use at large regional scales are suggested.

Potential Effect of Conservation Tillage on Sustainable Land Use: A Review of Global Long-Term Studies

Pedosphere ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 587-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Bin WANG ◽  
Dian-Xiong CAI ◽  
W.B. HOOGMOED ◽  
O. OENEMA ◽  
U.D. PERDOK
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Conservation Tillage ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Long Term Studies

scholarly journals Benefits of water-related ecological infrastructure investments to support sustainable land-use: a review of evidence from critically water-stressed catchments in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alanna J. Rebelo ◽  
Petra B. Holden ◽  
Karen Esler ◽  
Mark G. New
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
South African ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Ecological Infrastructure ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Infrastructure Investments

Investments to promote sustainable land-use within critical river catchment areas are often undertaken to provide benefits to society. Investments generally aim to protect or restore ecological infrastructure—the underlying framework of ecosystems, functions and processes that supply ecosystem services—for multiple benefits to society. However, the empirical evidence base from studies across the world on both mechanisms and outcomes to support these assumptions is limited. We collate evidence on the benefits of ecological infrastructure interventions, in terms of ecosystem services provided to society, from three major South African water-providing catchments using a novel framework. In these catchments, millions of US Dollars' worth of investments have been made into ecological infrastructure since 1996. We ask the question: is there evidence that ecological infrastructure interventions are delivering the proposed benefits? Results show that even in catchments with substantial, long-term financial investment into ecological infrastructure, research has not empirically confirmed the benefits. Better baseline data collection is required, and monitoring during and after ecological infrastructure interventions, to quantify benefits to society. This evidence is needed to leverage investment into ecological infrastructure interventions at scale. Investment at scale is needed to transition to more sustainable land-use to unlock greater benefits to nature and people.

scholarly journals An investigation of farm restructuring and sustainable land use - Tutira region, northern Hawke's Bay

1990 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
I.C. Brown ◽  
R.D. Black ◽  
J.M. King
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Permanent Damage ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Sufficient Magnitude

The severity of permanent damage caused by Cyclone Bola to an estimated 65 000 ha in northern Hawke's Bay is of sufficient magnitude to necessitate complete changes in land use over that region as a whole. Traditional responses to this problem have included a range of incentives which have been principally designed to ensure the continuation of the existing pastoral use. Recent studies have emphasised the need to rationalise land use on the basis of long term sustainability. The costs of facilitating and permanently establishing this change in land use will be high, and an appropriate sponsor must be found, as market forces and commercial enterprise alone will have insufficient incentive to effect the changes. Keywords sustainable land use, farm restructuring, Hawke's Bay

A sustainable plan for conserving forest biodiversity in far East Russia and northeast China

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 565-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Marcot ◽  
Sergei S. Ganzei ◽  
Tiefu Zhang ◽  
Boris A. Voronov
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Far East ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Forest Biodiversity ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
East Russia ◽  
Land Use Plan

An ongoing, trinational project is providing the first environmentally sustainable economic development plan for the Ussuri River watershed (URW) in Far East Russia and northeast China. The URW is host to a unique mix of northern taiga and southern subtropical biota, and contains many endemic, relict, and highly threatened species of plants and animals. In Russia, severe monetary inflation and a shift to a market economy have left some aspects of forest biodiversity in jeopardy, particularly policing for wildlife poachers, regulating CITES (international wildlife trafficking) violations, ensuring long-term sustained production of timber and non-timber forest products, protecting unique habitats, and adequately staffing scientific reserves and funding needed research. In China, broad scale conversion of remaining wetlands to agriculture and rice paddies, and of diverse native forests to intensively managed, monocultural plantations, is helping to sustain the economy but is sacrificing biodiversity. A proposed sustainable land use plan has (1) mapped resource use areas, including both proposed and existing transborder nature areas, (2) encouraged foreign investment in both countries, and (3) encouraged sustainable development of natural resource markets that will be compatible with long-term conservation of biodiversity. A hallmark of this plan is integrating the needs of the people with the capacity of the land through both environmental protection and wise resource use. Key words: Russia, China, Far East, Ussuri River watershed, biodiversity, sustainable, land use plan, wildlife

scholarly journals The quality and health of soil in terms of sustainable land use

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
DANICA FAZEKAŠOVÁ ◽  
EVA MICHAELI ◽  
STANISLAW BARAN ◽  
JANA CHOVANCOVÁ ◽  
STANISLAV TORMA
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Available Phosphorus ◽  
Organic Carbon Content ◽  
Marginal Areas ◽  
Alkaline And Acid Phosphatase ◽  
Physical And Chemical

Soil quality represents the ability of the soil to secure environmental functions in a particular way of using it. Health of soil expresses protection and increasing biological productivity, environmental quality and health promotion of all living forms, including humans. This study presents the results of long-term monitoring and evaluation of selected parameters of soil in terms of sustainable land use in the marginal areas of the northeastern Slovakia During 1997–2013 (48º57'N, 20°05'E). Physical (bulk density, porosity), chemical (pH, anorganic nitrogen, available phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and organic carbon content) and biological (soil enzyme activity – urease, alkaline and acid phosphatase) soil properties and available heavy metal content (Cd, Pb and Ni) were monitored and statistically evaluated. The results show that in assessing the quality of soil and environmental pollution of soil the microbial parameters (activity of soil enzymes) appear to be useful. These parameters rapidly respond to environmental stress and can lead to changes in physical and chemical properties leading to early detection of soil degradation.

scholarly journals Strategic Spatial Planning in Emerging Land-Use Frontiers – Evidence from Mozambique

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira ◽  
Patrick Meyfroidt
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Short Termism

Strategic spatial planning (SSP) represents a consolidated long-term governance practice across developed and developing countries. It articulates sectoral policies, and it involves vision making and an array of stakeholders regarding land use and development issues around urban and rural territories. Land-use frontiers are territories with abundant land for agriculture and forestry, availability of natural resources relative to labor or capital, and rapid land-use change, often driven by large-scale investments and capitalized actors producing commodities for distal markets. Among various reasons, one of the objectives of SSP processes is to articulate a more coherent and future-oriented spatial logic for sustainable land-use patterns, resource protection and investments. SSP may thus constitute a useful approach to address some of the challenges posed to the governance of land-use frontiers, thus far, its potential contribution in land-use frontiers lacks an explicitly exploration. Here, we examine how SSP can play a role in governing land-use frontiers, through a case-study analysis of Mozambique as an emerging investment frontier. We gathered empirical evidence by interviewing experts involved in resource management, planning and strategizing territorial development in the country, complemented by a content analysis of literature and policy documents. We show that emerging land-use frontiers face several challenges, such as transnational land deals and intensification of commercial plantations. Interview data show that Mozambique lacks a strategic territorial vision, and the short-termism of political cycles hinders long-term territorial development, primarily in rural areas with plentiful land. Our analysis shows that SSP processes could contribute to address both global and country-specific challenges such as poverty traps and land degradation spirals, if various local and distant actors join forces and marry interests. We conclude by presenting a systematic framework explaining how SSP could play a role in governing emerging land-use frontiers for sustainable pathways.

scholarly journals Variation in Soil Properties under Long-Term Irrigated and Non-Irrigated Cropping and Other Land-Use Systems in Dura Catchment, Northern Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gebreyesus Brhane Tesfahunegn ◽  
Teklebirhan Arefaine Gebru
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Eragrostis Tef ◽  
Northern Ethiopia ◽  
Soil System ◽  
Land Use Systems ◽  
Nutrient Stocks

AbstractThere are limited reports about the impacts of long-term irrigated and non-irrigated cropping and land-use systems (CLUS) on soil properties and nutrient stocks under smallholder farmers’ conditions in developing countries. The objective of this research was to examine variation in soil properties and OC and TN stocks across the different CLUS in Dura sub-catchment, northern Ethiopia. Surveys and discussions on field history were used to identify nine CLUS, namely, tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc) Trot)) mono-cropping (TM), maize (Zea mays L.) mono-cropping (MM), cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)-maize intercropping (IC1), red beet (Beta Vulgaris)-maize intercropping (IC2), cauliflower-tef-maize rotation (R1), onion (Allium cepa L.)-maize-onion rotation (R2), treated gully (TG), untreated gully (UTG), and natural forest system (NF). A total of 27 composite soil samples were collected randomly from the CLUS for laboratory analysis. Data were subjected to one-way analysis of variance and PCA. The lowest and highest bulk density was determined from NF (1.19 Mg m-3) and UTG (1.77 Mg m-3), respectively. Soil pH, EC and CEC varied significantly among the CLUS. The highest CEC (50.3 cmolc kg-1) was under TG followed by NF. The highest soil OC stock (113.6 Mg C ha-1) and TN stock (12.2 Mg C ha-1) were found from NF. The PCA chosen soil properties explained 87% of the soil quality variability among the CLUS. Such soil properties and nutrient stocks variability among the CLUS suggested that introduction of suitable management practices are crucial for sustaining the soil system of the other CLUS.

scholarly journals Using public participation within land use change scenarios for analysing environmental and socioeconomic drivers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Penny ◽  
Slobodan Djordjević ◽  
Albert S Chen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Baseline Scenario ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
The Public ◽  
Field Crops ◽  
Socioeconomic Drivers

Abstract This paper aims to improve the understanding of environmental and socioeconomic drivers on land use change (LUC) through public participation (PP), and provide recommendations for long-term policy making to support sustainable land use management. Public participation (PP) was necessary to help understand and address the problem and concerns of stakeholders within the study area. Through two collaboration workshops seven individual future land use scenarios were created. Using the FLUS (Future land use simulation) model, land use was projected up till 2060, after which logistic regression analysis took place to find the most significant driver. Results found that LUC within the baseline scenario and the ones chosen by stakeholders were very different, however concluded that Paddy field extent would decrease in the future to be replaced by more drought resilient agriculture; Perennials & Orchards and Field Crops. Outcomes from future scenarios propose that future LUC was driven by environment spatial factors such as elevation and climate, not soil suitability. With, first hand interviews suggesting it is indirect external factors such as, crop price that drive LUC. Overall the study provides steps towards dynamic LUC modelling where future scenarios have been tailored to details specified by the public through their participation.

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