scholarly journals Applying eco-services in smallholder rubber land valuation

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Ngan Truong Nguyen ◽  
Tam Thi Giac Pham ◽  
Tu Cong Tran ◽  
Thanh Cong Tran
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Type ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Valuation Methods ◽  
Unit Value ◽  
Land Valuation ◽  
Artificial Ecosystems

Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Agricultural lands are artificial ecosystems. Therefore, the value of an agricultural land use type can be measured by the total value of ESs which human are getting on that type. This paper proposed to value agricultural lands by the ES approach and apply for the smallholder rubber ecosystem on the Suoi Rat watershed in Binh Phuoc province. The results are: selection and pricing the nine ESs in 40 sample plots; determining the total value in each plot, thereby, calculating the unit value of smallholder rubber land in the watershed is 96,570 VND/m2; comparing the result with the value get from the income method and land price in 2014 of Binh Phuoc province. This valuation methods can be applied to value for other agricultural lands

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL LAND USE BASED ON LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-348
Author(s):  
Vladimir TATARINTSEV ◽  
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Leonid TATARINTSEV ◽  
Alex MATSYURA ◽  
Andrei BONDAROVICH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
Anthropogenic Activity ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Erosion Processes

The aim of the work was the landscape analysis of agricultural geographical landscapes in the Altai Territory and elaboration of measures aimed at the rational use of agricultural lands. Environmental and landscape (landscape) approach became the main method of scientific research used in the analysis of modern agricultural landscapes. The cartographic method, using GIS-technologies, made it possible to digitize the obtained materials. Synthesized maps of agro-ecological, natural and other zoning of territories are based on topographic, soil, geobotanical and other thematic maps made during land surveying during the field survey. Retrospective analysis, induction and deduction methods,analysis and synthesis, as well as the abstract-logic method were also used in the work. Our main result was the analysis of land use territory for agricultural enterprise in municipal district of Altai Krai. Exploration of lands indicates a pronounced plant-growing specialization of JSC “Pobeda” with a developed animal breeding direction. Limiting factors affecting the rational use of land are natural and climatic conditions, terrain,unsystematic anthropogenic activity and, as a result, the development of erosion processes. The degree of eroded and deflated arable land is more than 50%, hay and pasture lands are also very unstable. Landscapes have been typified, based on which eleven types of land have been identified and their geomorphological description has been carried out. The first five types of land can be used for agricultural production with limitations compensated by crop technology and erosion control measures, the sixth and seventh types require grassing and, in some cases,conservation, the eighth and ninth types can be partially used for pasture and area valorization; the remaining two are not suitable for agricultural use but should be potentially used for planting and forest management. As a result of the presented transformation of agricultural lands, the structure of cultivated areas has changed. The area of arable land decreased by 877 ha, and of pastures by 365 ha,while the area under hayfields, fallow lands, and forest lands increased by 295, 191, and 875 ha respectively. Low-productive lands were withdrawn from agriculture. We suggested that the sustainability of agricultural land use was mainly caused by the reduction of anthropogenic load and increase in ecological equilibrium of the territory.

The development and implementation of programs for the use and protection of agricultural lands in the regional projects for the development of agriculture and agricultural clusters, and state regulation of agricultural lands fertility

2021 ◽  
pp. 325-330
Author(s):  
V.V. Alakoz
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
Negative Impacts

Land legislation - the Land Code of the Russian Federation, the Federal Law " Land Management", the Federal Law "Turnover of Agricultural Lands", the Federal Law "State Regulation of Agricultural Lands Fertility" proclaimed the obligation of state authorities, local governments, legal entities and individuals realize their activities with preservation of land as the most important component of the environment and a natural resource, and carry out measures for the reproduction of the fertility of agricultural lands. There are proclamations, but no effective economic, administrative mechanisms and institutions of enforcement to save productive land and soil fertility. Regulations for the environmentally safe use of separately cultivated plots of arable land, contours of hayfields and pastures with spatial identification of the boundaries of their action on the map for land management have not been established – we can see negative impacts of excessive cultivation of arable land. The proposed measures to ensure the fertility of agricultural lands are aimed not at land use with soil-saving agricultural technologies in the process of agricultural activities when growing crops (in accordance with the established regulations), but at restoration of soil fertility after depletion of agricultural land use through reclamation and other measures for agrochemical services. This article proposes to restore the compulsory land management activities in case of identification of lands with water and wind erosion and other negative impacts with the development of regulations for environmentally safe agricultural land use for each field or part of it, the contour of hayfields and pastures exposed to negative impacts of anthropogenic or natural load. It is easier to prevent than to cure.

scholarly journals Assessment of ecological and economic efficiency of agricultural lands preservation

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmytro Semenda ◽  
Olga Semenda
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Resource Saving ◽  
No Till ◽  
Study Results

The article substantiates the necessity to define and generalize the criteria for assessing the ecological and economic efficiency of using agricultural lands. Due to the transition of the agro-industrial complex to private forms of management, the problems of forming a strategy of rational, ecologically safe and sustainable development of land use in Ukrainian agriculture became of paramount importance. Therefore, systematic studies on the assessment of the ecological and economic efficiency of the agricultural land use need to be conducted. Harmonization of ecological and economic interests is of particular importance in the context of ensuring the conservation, resource-saving and reproductive nature of the agricultural land exploitation.A scientific study found that in Ukraine, the agrarian sector of the economy provides about 47% of GDP, but the question arises: At what price are these achievements given to us? Agricultural land development exceeds environmentally sound standards. Excessive cultivation of the territory leads to an annual increase of eroded lands by 80-90 thousand hectares. Land use is recognized as environmentally unstable, and there is a steady tendency to deteriorate the quality of soil. Each second hectare of cultivated land is erosion-hazardous, that is, these soils are subject to water and wind erosion. In this regard, it is recommended to introduce the world-wide experience of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), which provides an opportunity to provide food security to the country and to limit the negative impact of the environment, based on the introduction of organic production.It is proved that regardless of the size of farms and forms of management using resource-saving no-till technologies, enterprises received low cost of grown products, providing profitable activities. Ecological compatibility of the technology provides energy savings of at least 30% in comparison with traditional farming systems, the accumulation of not less than 30-40% of plant residues on the soil surface after harvesting of the predecessor, provides protection of the soil from wind and water erosion by minimizing the amount and depth of technological operations.It is confirmed that the most widespread evaluation of the agricultural lands use is the evaluation of the results of their use through volumes of gross and commodity products, income, and production profitability. The criteria for the environmental effectiveness of agricultural land use should be: the degree of functional use of land resources, ecological stability, the level of anthropogenic loading, the degree of erosional feature of land, etc.According to the study results, it was established that one of the main areas of agriculture is the application of minimal tillage in crop rotation, i.e. resource-saving no-till technology.The economic feasibility of technologies based on the use of different soil tillage systems has been confirmed.

Land rent as an economic instrument of land payments differentiation setting the economically available agricultural lands to provide profitable commercial use

2021 ◽  
pp. 805-814
Author(s):  
V.V. Alakoz
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
State Management ◽  
Land Relations ◽  
The Impact

The article examines the system of agricultural land use and the impact of its elements on in-country spatial heterogeneity, and the spatial development of agricultural land use in the regional aspect – the expansion or contraction of arable lands. The geographic space of the agricultural land use of a country, a macro-region, a region-component of the agricultural industry and the socio-economic system of life are quantitative and qualitative changes in the use of the existing potential of productive agricultural lands, an increase or decrease of their boundaries under the combined influence of social, economic, institutional and infrastructural elements of the agricultural land use system. Among the elements of this system that affect the expansion or contraction of the area and boundaries of agricultural land use and their quality condition: bioclimatic potential; the level of innovative development, agricultural technologies; access to land, finance, and sales markets; effective demand for agricultural products; availability of development institutions (land information systems, monitoring of land use, land management, cadastre, land valuation, land redistribution fund - land bank). Decisive importance is the quality of state regulation of land relations (land and tax legislation) and state management of land use, and the topic of this article - the quality and level of state support for agricultural activities. The harmonization of the components of the agricultural land administration system is decision which, how and how much apply one or another regulation factor of land relations – the mechanisms of market self-regulation or direct state regulation.

scholarly journals Integrating Ecosystem Services into Land-Use Modeling to Assess the Effects of Future Land-Use Strategies in Northern Ghana

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 379
Author(s):  
Hongmi Koo ◽  
Janina Kleemann ◽  
Christine Fürst
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Trade Offs

In West Africa, where the majority of the population relies on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture, regionally adapted agricultural land-use planning is increasingly important to cope with growing demand for land-use products and intensifying climate variability. As an approach to identify effective future land-use strategies, this study applied spatially explicit modeling that addresses the spatial connectivity between the provision of ecosystem services and agricultural land-use systems. Considering that the status of ecosystem services varies with the perception of stakeholders, local knowledge, and characteristics of a case study area, two adjoining districts in northern Ghana were integrated into an assessment process of land-use strategies. Based on agricultural land-management options that were identified together with the local stakeholders, 75 future land-use strategies as combinations of multiple agricultural practices were elaborated. Potential impacts of the developed land-use strategies on ecosystem services and land-use patterns were assessed in a modeling platform that combines Geographic Information System (GIS) and Cellular Automaton (CA) modules. Modeled results were used to identify best land-use strategies that could deliver multiple ecosystem services most effectively. Then, local perception was applied to determine the feasibility of the best land-use strategies in practice. The results presented the different extent of trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services delivered by future land-use strategies and their different feasibility depending on the district. Apart from the fact that findings were context-specific and scale-dependent, this study revealed that the integration of different local characteristics and local perceptions to spatially explicit ecosystem service assessment is beneficial for determining locally tailored recommendations for future agricultural land-use planning.

Population status of Adansonia digitata L. and associated species in a different land use type of Quara district, northwest Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melkamu Abere Erku ◽  
Asmamaw Alemu ◽  
Abeje Eshete
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Type ◽  
Population Status ◽  
Adansonia Digitata ◽  
Importance Value Index ◽  
Key Species

Abstract Background Adansonia digitata is one of the most important Non-timber forest products and a key species that have ecological and socio-economic significance in the lowland area of Ethiopia. However, the population of the species is decreasing from time to time due to different natural and anthropogenic factors. The study important to generate information on the current existing population status of Adansonia digitata across three land use types and will provide a scientific recommendation on further management of a species.Methodology About six plots in each forest and agricultural land use type and five plots in homestead were selected randomly from the topography map. Populations of a species were determined using analysis of variance.Results The result showed that homestead and agricultural land use type had higher Adansonia digitata density than forest land use type but statically it was not significantly different. More Adansonia digitata populations were distributed in the middle diameter and height size classes. Conclusion: The study concludes that Adansonia digitata highly associated with Combretum-Terminalia, Ziziphus and Acacia tree species in the study area. This species is dominant and key ecological importance in the woodland vegetation however; Adansonia digitata has a very low importance value index in the study area, so it needs further management and conservation.

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