Using farmers' knowledge for defining criteria for land qualities in biophysical land evaluation

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 541-553

  Messing, I ^a   Hoang Fagerstrom M H ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biophysical properties; FAO framework; Farmers' criteria; Land suitability evaluation; Participatory rural appraisal

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARID REGIONS; CATCHMENTS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; DEGRADATION; EROSION; FLOODS; SOILS;

LAND EVALUATION;

LAND USE;

FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; LAND EVALUATION; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE; SOIL QUALITY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CHINA;

EID: 0035513378     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.470     Document Type: Article

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