Land capability and soil productivity are fundamentally intertwined concepts critical to sustainable land management. Land capability refers to the inherent potential and limitations of a parcel of ...

Gathered together, cropland would take up more than a fifth of the 48 contiguous states. Pasture and rangeland would cover most of the Western U.S., and all of the country’s cities and towns would fit ...

Land use planning ensures the use of land resources in an organized fashion so that the needs of the present and future generations can be best addressed. Land use planning has as its basic purpose to ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. In addition to regulating land tenure, ...

(b) Brief Definition: Change over time of the distribution of land uses within a country. Land use is characterized by the arrangements, activities and inputs that people undertake in a specific land ...

Few laws have shaped Nigeria’s economic and social structure as deeply as the Land Use Act of 1978. Conceived under a military government to end chaotic land ownership patterns, it was meant to make ...