This article reports the results of an econometric evaluation of the effects of Plan Colombia, the largest US aid package ever received by a country in the western hemisphere. We assess how the aerial spraying of illegal crops affects both the size of the land cultivated with coca bushes as well as the dynamics of localized violence in the context of Colombia’s armed conflict. In particular, we...

In facing the situation of food security, issue non-grain production cultivated land (NGPOCL) in China has attracted more and attention. To clarify whether rural transfer promotes NGPOCL China, this study collected provincial panel data from 2015 to 2020, constructed multiple econometric models explore impact on planting structure land. It is observed that an increase area does not promote but ...

Taking the Landsat TM and ASTER images of Hanshiqiao wetland nature reserve in 1988, 1996 and 2004 as data source, based on the images interpretation by supervised classification, the land use changes during the period 1988 to 2004 were analyzed through land use dynamic degree. And then the driving forces of land use changes were analyzed based on natural and artificial factors. The results ind...

Integrating remote sensing (RS) with geographic information system (GIS), distribution digital maps of land desertification, spatial database and their statistics in the year of 1986, 1993 and 2000 were obtained by correcting, amplifying and auto classifying the RS images of interlaced zone for agriculture and animal husbandry in northern Shaanxi. The results showed that in the last 15 years de...

This paper illustrates the result of land use/cover change in Dhaka Metropolitan of Bangladesh using topographic maps and multi-temporal remotely sensed data from 1960 to 2005. The Maximum likelihood supervised classification technique was used to extract information from satellite data, and post-classification change detection method was employed to detect and monitor land use/cover change. De...

Ecology may benefit from long term, large scale experiments on low intensity farming to test theoretical principles and convert them into practical lessons. One century of land conversion in the Argentine pampas, and its effect on critical ecological properties, were analysed and discussed. Land transformation has resulted in significant changes of land use, land cover, energy flow, nutrient dy...