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Managing tropical catchments

  • Sustainable management in tropical regions

Description

Tropical agriculture faces many problems in its tasks of providing both protein and income to people in regions of erratic rainfall, high erosion and often unsuitable terrain and poor soils. Sustainable methods of agriculture require an understanding of the basic ecological processes, as well as the sociological context in which different forms of agriculture are practiced.

Developing integrated and sustainable management in tropical areas requires understanding in a range of disciplines; soil fertility, erosion and sediment yield, river and lake management, the nature of tropical ecosystems, the economics of subsistence farming and the socio-economic dynamics of regional modelling, through to remote sensing and GIS planning.

Broader

Value

Unsustainable
Yet to rate
Mismanagement
Yet to rate

Reference

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero HungerSustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(G) Very specific strategies
Subject
Content quality
Presentable
 Presentable
Language
English
Last update
Dec 13, 2022