ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

Global strategies

Managing agricultural lands

Managing agricultural lands

Planning agricultural land use

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends land-resource planning, information and education for agriculture to ensure sustainable agriculture and rural development.

Broader

Managing local agricultural resources

Managing land use

Narrower

Using agroecology

Ensuring sustainable agricultural development

Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land

Protecting best farmland for agriculture

Practising rainwater-harvesting agriculture

Improving ability to use land for agricultural purposes

Constrains

Damaging agricultural land

Constrained by

Damaging agricultural land

Facilitates

Monitoring food security

Increasing sustainable food production

Developing agricultural resources

Facilitated by

Developing sustainable land use policy

Introducing erosion prevention technologies

Ensuring public participation for sustainable agriculture

Conducting agricultural research

Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management

Monitoring farming production

Integrating use of land resources

Improving data systems on land resources

Forming business management group

Problem

Agricultural mismanagement

Mismanagement of environmental demand

Value

Web link

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(D) Detailed strategies

Subject

Geography » Land type/use

Agriculture, fisheries » Agriculture

Management » Management

Management » Planning

Content quality

Presentable

Language

English

Last update

Sep 29, 2022