This study aims at critically assessing the land management strategies that can be instrumental in bringing sound governance to urban landscapes in Africa with the view of mapping the potential, minimum conditions for success and constraints to doing so. This study is qualitative by approach and case study based by design, assesses practices in land management from a few cities (Nairobi, Abuja,...

the study carried out an assessment of agricultural land management practices in food crops production among small scale farmers in kwara sate, nigeria. specifically, the study determined the socio economic characteristics of crop farmers in kwara state; ascertained the cropping patterns common among them; highlighted the soil conservation methods adopted by the farmers; examined the relationsh...

provides guidance on the application of environmental economics, and specifically the analysis and valuation of ecosystem services, to analyze the costs of land degradation and the benefits of sustainable land management. The Toolkit is intended to assist technicians and decision makers in their analysis of land degradation and land management policy options. The Toolkit has been prepared in pa...

Shenzhen is a city that is highly representative of China’s rapid urbanization process. As the city rapidly expands, there are enormous challenges to the sustainable use of land resources. This paper introduces the evolution of urban land expansion and the sustainable land use policy of the Shenzhen Government since 2005. The policy covers the reduction in rural-to-urban land conversion, the de...

On the 21 of May, the Ministry of Planning, Land and Forest Management (RGB), the United Nations Development Programme and the Global Environment Facility officially launched the Coastal Protected Area Management Project in Nickerie. This three year initiative will promote the sustainable development of the Coastal Protected Area and the promotion of biodiversity through effective management an...

The existing management of property restrictions and responsibilities poses a major barrier to achieving sustainable land management. Administrative responses have concentrated on organising information rather than achieving the original policy objectives of good land management. Disparate management of individual restrictions has made it extremely difficult to develop and evaluate the effects ...

The Green Revolution, through the adoption of new crop varieties, irrigation, and agrochemicals, saved about 1 billion people from famine by increasing global food production (FAO 2011). We now recognize that these enormous gains in agricultural production were accompanied by harm to agriculture’s natural resource base, jeopardizing our future ability to meet human food, fuel, and fiber needs f...

Land degradation threatens food production especially in smallholder farming systems predominant sub-Saharan Africa. Monitoring the effects of agricultural land uses is critical to guide sustainable intensification (SI). There are various indicators use (SLU), but conventional methods quantify their metrics complex and difficult deploy for rapid large-scale assessments. Considering that SLU dep...

Land degradation is one of the major causes of low and in many places declining agricultural productivity and continuing food insecurity and rural poverty in Ethiopia. Achieving sustainable pathways out of the downward spiral of land degradation and poverty requires that farmers adopt profitable and sustainable land management practices, or pursue alternative livelihood strategies that are less...