Rapid industrial development and urbanization transfer more and more land away from agricultural production, threatening China’s capability to feed itself. This paper analyzes the determinants of land use by modeling arable land and sown area separately. An inverse U-shaped relationship between land use intensity and industrialization is explored both theoretically and empirically. The findings...

Introduction Choosing machinery and land investments are two of the most difficult decisions faced by farm managers. Since both machinery and land are typically the most valuable assets to the farm, the ability of the farm manager to properly select equipment and plan for land expansion is imperative for financial success of the business. When selecting machinery, land area is an important fact...

Soil landscape mapping is a regional planning tool that identifies soil and landscape constraints to development from natural resource management and engineering view points. Currently, this dataset is the only one available for identifying land capability in its broadest sense. More detailed soil landscape information at the hillslope facet level is necessary to identify specific urban and rur...

in developing countries, it is common to site (or locate) industries without environmental impact assessment. in this study the impacts of two food processing industries on land use and land capability, noise and vibration, environmentally sensitive areas and visual quality as environmental elements were investigated. the research method adopted was the investigative survey research approach (i...

Smallholder agriculture is a major source of income and food for developing nations. With more frequent drought increasing scarcity arable land, accurate land-use planning tools are needed to allocate land resources support regional agricultural activity. To address this need, we created Land Capability Classification (LCC) system maps using data from two digital soil maps, which were compared ...