Effective governance of agricultural systems is needed for achieving goals food security, resilient systems, and addressing the impacts climate change. Local governments have an increasing interest in role agriculture meeting these goals. However, alignment varies greatly between local governing systems. Governability a measure degree to which system can be governed set specified purposes or To...

This short article represents a further development of the article published in IJAWB earlier in the summer of 2017 Bousbaine et al. [1]. In Section 1, we develop the characteristics of Strategic Development Planning (for and by the citizens and collective actors) for a territory. In Section 2, we discuss some specific characteristics of Strategic Development Planning for Agricultural Developme...

an important factor in sustainable agriculture and economic management is to calculate areas under different crops that the inputs of agriculture connect to this topic. planning of agricultural mechanization, fertilizer and pesticide requirements, pests and diseases control, estimates of agricultural production, income and tax and financial planning, all linked to the cultivated areas and estim...

There is a need for expanding agricultural lands due to increased demand for food production and security. Some regions can convert available land to agricultural land use. In order to evaluate available land for future agricultural production, multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) methods can be used to identify the land suitability. This study proposes and implements the soft computing logic and Lo...

1 Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Planning, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, 2 School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KZN, South Africa, 3 Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth, NH, USA, 4 New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Johannesburg, GT, South Africa, 5 Faculty of Agricultu...

Food Security and Food Sovereignty are two of the most important issues facing Food Policy. Maintaining productive farmland and sustainable farms as well as providing adequate volumes of foodstuffs have led to measures to protect farmland and farm activities in many countries. These include land use planning with agricultural zones and in some jurisdictions legislation to ‘protect’ agriculture ...

Agriculture plays an essential role in restructuring and country planning. However, the agricultural world is under economic pressures that affect the efficiency of landowners. To ensure good productivity, the farmer needs his land to be spatially well organised and well equipped. To use the agricultural land most efficiently, it is important first to understand the area by collecting together ...