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Land Use Systems Analysis, a Multi-Scale Methodology to Explore Options for Development of Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems

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Title Land Use Systems Analysis, a Multi-Scale Methodology to Explore Options for Development of Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems
 
Creator Duivenbooden, N van
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description In many developing countnes, llmitlng factors for development of sustalnable production
systems Include varlabll~ty In agroecologlcal and soclo-econom~c cond~tlons, poor access to
gec-referenced data and lnformatlon, and poor relatlonshlp between the civil soclety,
researchers and decls~on makers Working wlth Interactwe Development Scenarios (IDS)
models may provlde a way to plan (agr~cultural)d evelopment Thls tool can Integrate results of
vanous methods that asslst In land use plannlng Nlne methods are bnefly discussed and
evaluated All methods depend on reliable baslc data, but many drsplay Inadequate plannlng
procedures, statlc approaches and neglect of soclo-economlc aspects Therefore, an
alternative methodology "Land Use Systems Analysls (LUSA)" 1s belng presented It alms to
cover the successful management of resources to satisfy changlng human needs wlthout
degrading the envlronment or the natural resource base Components and the functlonlng of
land use systems are analysed In flve steps, In an ~nterdlsclpllnaryw ay, to glve quantlfled and
clear altematlve land use optlons on different scales Based on thls approach, ICRISAT has
started In 1996 a joint research project based on thls approach with NARS In Mall. Burkina
Faso and Nlger, entitled "Exploltlng multi-scale varlablllty of land use systems to Improve
natural resource management In the Sudano-Sahellan zone of West Afnca (MUSCLUS)" Four
levels of scale are dlstlngulshed agro-ecological zone, dlstnct, village land, and household Its
goals and expected outputs are presented In thls paper
 
Date 1997
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4766/1/CP_1301.pdf
Duivenbooden, N van (1997) Land Use Systems Analysis, a Multi-Scale Methodology to Explore Options for Development of Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Geo-information for Sustainable Land Management, 17-21 August 1997, Enschede, The Netherlands.