Title :
Identification of potential areas for out-scaling sustainable land management options in West Asia, North Africa, and Central Asia
Author :
Ziadat, Feras ; Haddad, Mira ; Oweis, Theib ; Akramkhanov, Akmal
Author_Institution :
Land and Water Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, (FAO), Rome, Italy
Abstract :
Water scarcity and land degradation are among the most important factors affecting agricultural production and sustainability in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region and in Central Asia (CA). Various sustainable land management (SLM) technologies that help conserve and better use natural resources and hence improve the incomes and livelihoods of farmers are available and being adapted to these regions. However, to achieve better adoption by farmers and to ensure positive results from implementation, the SLM technologies in WANA and CA need to be disseminated on a large scale. Identifying the potential areas to target the implementation of selected SLM practices is necessary to help decision makers and facilitate the out-scaling process.
Keywords :
Agriculture; Asia; Degradation; Geographic information systems; Soil texture; Water resources; agro-ecosystem; benchmark; biophysical criteria; decision support mapping; knowledge dissemination; spatial analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-geoinformatics), 2015 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul, Turkey
DOI :
10.1109/Agro-Geoinformatics.2015.7248130