Land & Investments

A feasibility study has been worked out for an integrated advisory system for precision agriculture on the production of forage (grass and maize) for dairy farming in the Netherlands. Technology is not restrictive anymore to apply precision agriculture on important cultivation measures.

Winnaar van de wedstrijd Topbodem, editie 2014-15, Hans Akkermans probeert alles te doen om zijn bodem in topconditie te houden. Toch merkt hij dat de normen voor fosfaat de ruimte beperken om aan duurzame bodemvruchtbaarheid te werken. Voor een goed saldo neigt hij naar intensievere teelten, voor de bodem naar voldoende rustgewassen.

Om landbouwkundige en milieukundige prestaties van bedrijven te beoordelen, kan het nuttig zijn om prestaties te spiegelen aan normen. Eén van de normen die hiervoor gebruikt kan worden, zijn de normen (opbrengsten, afvoeren, bodemoverschotten, benuttingen) die behoren bij een bedrijf dat de wettelijke toegestane (kunst)mestgiften (‘gebruiksnormen’) maximaal opvult.

Fertile soils are an essential building block for human existence on Earth. The degradation of soils and land, in this regard, poses significant challenges for the well-being and food security of all the people around the world. Moreover, soils provide not only food, fiber, and many types of biomass we use, but also a wide

Without healthy soils, it is not possible to produce healthy food. But soils do not just produce food: they

Africa is rapidly urbanizing and will
lead the world’s urban growth in the coming decades.
Currently, Africa is the least‐urbanized continent,
accommodating 11.3 percent of the world’s urban population,
and the Sub‐Saharan region is the continent’s

The paper investigates the conflicting findings in empirical studies linking land productivity to plot size, livestock ownership, investment in farm assets, and land improvement practices. The conflicting impacts found are partly as a result of different model specifications, the type of data used – panel or cross sectional data – and possibly due to imperfections in rural markets.

Land is an essential factor of production for agriculture, horticulture, forestry as well as other land related activities. Institutions that govern its use determine the sustainability and efficient use of this essential resource. In Ethiopia all land is publicly owned.

All four countries in continental South-East Asia featured in this paper (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) are experiencing land conflicts that could potentially destabilise their governments.1 Thailand is in a similar situation in many respects, as it has faced mounting tensions over land tenure since the 1990s (Hall et al., 2011).

Esta es la historia de la Comunidad Indígena Yvyratymi (Vega Cué), en Paraguay, que apenas logró recuperar una parte de su territorio, 205 hectáreas. Se trata de su retorno y el arraigo al territorio como el principio de la reconstrucción de su identidad y la armonía en sus vidas.

El avance de los agronegocios se da en múltiples y diferentes dimensiones, la más visible de ellas es la ocupación del territorio. Ya los datos del año 2008 indicaban que 3% de las fincas ocupaban el 85% de la tierra, y datos actuales indican que 94.25% de las tierras cultivadas están destinadas a la producción de comodities agrícolas y solo 5.75% para la producción campesina.