Land resources potential and sustainable land management: an overview

A. Parviz Koohafkan

Natural Resources Forum, 2000, vol. 24, issue 2, 69-81

Abstract: Land degradation continues to be a major threat to local and national food security. With limited potential to develop new land, any increase in agricultural production must be sought largely through the better use of land already under cultivation. Concerns for the global environment associated with agriculture worldwide have also increased in recent years and require more coordinated efforts at global and national levels with decentralisation of activities at the local level. This article presents an overview of land resources potential for food production, the processes and extent of land degradation and its economic and environmental costs and impacts, and highlights some macro‐economic policies and institutional measures for the prevention of land degradation and rehabilitation of degraded lands. A people‐centred programme is presented as a basis for decentralising activities for sustainable land use and land management. Finally, the need for better coordinated efforts of concerned UN, multinational agencies and NGOs for the implementation of Agenda 21 and related conventions is stressed.

Date: 2000
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