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Climate, soil and land-use based land suitability evaluation for oilpalm production in Ghana

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Title Climate, soil and land-use based land suitability evaluation for oilpalm production in Ghana
 
Creator Rhebergen, Tiemen
 
Contributor Fairhurst, Thomas
Zingore, Shamie
Fisher, Myles
Oberthür, Thomas
Whitbread, Anthony
 
Subject ghan
oil palm productivity
water deficit
 
Description tIn the past decade, oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has become the world’s most important oil crop.The large demand for palm oil has resulted in a rapid expansion of oil palm cultivation across the globe.Because of the dwindling availability of land in Southeast Asia, most expansion of the industry is expectedin Central and South America and sub-Saharan Africa, where land with suitable agro-ecological condi-tions is available. Using Ghana as a case study, a method for evaluating areas that are both suitable andavailable for oil palm production is presented. Our assessment used spatial data and GIS techniques, andshowed that areas with suitable climatic conditions (annual average water deficit
 
Date 2016-08-15
2017-02-09T00:27:27Z
2017-02-09T00:27:27Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/dspace/limited
http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9728
Tiemen Rhebergen, Thomas Fairhurst, Shamie Zingore, Myles Fisher, Thomas Oberthür, Anthony Whitbread. (15/8/2016). Climate, soil and land-use based land suitability evaluation for oilpalm production in Ghana. European Journal of Agronomy, 81, pp. 1-14.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/5631
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source European Journal of Agronomy;81,(2016) Pagination 1,14