Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Land-Use Planning in Agricultural Development for Food Security

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
Zero Hunger

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

Definition

Land-use planning is the systematic assessment of land and water potential, alternatives for land use and socioeconomic conditions in order to select and adopt the best land-use options (FAO 1993). It indicates which areas of land are most valuable under a specific land use or activity for better performance while safeguarding resources for the future. “The driving force in planning is the need for change, the need for improved management or the need for a quite different pattern of land use dictated by changing circumstances (FAO 1993).”

In agriculture, land-use planning represents a fundamental process and key element in all types of agricultural development and conservation. Often misunderstood, it regulates land-use options in an efficient way that will increase their productivity sustainably and meet the needs of the society while avoiding conflicts. Agricultural land-use planning will hence contribute to the efficient use of resources toward improving yield and...

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 499.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 649.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Badami MG, Ramankutty N (2015) Urban agriculture and food security: a critique based on an assessment of urban land constraints. Glob Food Sec 4:8–15

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Benke K, Tomkins B (2017) Future food-production systems: vertical farming and controlled-environment agriculture. Sustain Sci Pract Policy 13(1):13–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2017.1394054

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bousbaine A, Akkari C, Bryant C (2017) What can agricultural land use planning contribute to food production and food policy? Int J Avian Wildlife Biol 2(1):13–20. https://doi.org/10.15406/ijawb.2017.02.00009

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brottem LV (2017) Environmental change and farmer-herder conflict in agro-pastoral West Africa. Hum Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-016-9846-5

  • CABRI (2019) Policy Dialogue: The role of governments in developing agriculture value chains. 15p. www.cabri-sbo.org

  • Chamberlin J, Jayne TS, Headey D (2014) Scarcity amid abundance? Reassessing the potential for cropland expansion in Africa. Food Policy 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.05.002

  • De Wrachien D (2003) Land use planning: a key to sustainable agriculture. In: García-Torres L, Benites J, Martínez-Vilela A, Holgado-Cabrera A (eds) Conservation agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1143-2_57

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Elsheikh R, Mohamed Shariff ARB, Amiri F, Ahmad NB, Balasundram SK, Soom MAM (2013) Agriculture land suitability evaluator (ALSE): a decision and planning support tool for tropical and subtropical crops. Comput Electron Agric 93:98–110

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Emeka N, Famobuwa OS, Chinemeze I (2017) Land reform system and its implications on agricultural production in Nigeria. Univ J Agric Res 5(6):338–343. https://doi.org/10.13189/ujar.2017.050604

  • FAO (1993) Guidelines for land-use planning. Table of contents. FAO development series 1. Prepared by the Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service under the guidance of the Inter-Departmental Working Group on Land Use Planning. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. ISSN 1020-0819

    Google Scholar 

  • FAO (2007) Land evaluation towards a revised framework. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome

    Google Scholar 

  • FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) (2011) The state of the world’s land and water resources for food and agriculture. http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i1688e/i1688e00.pdf. Viewed 1 May 2014

  • FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) (2014) FAOSTAT. http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/download/E/EL/E. Viewed 1 May 2014

  • FAO (2016) Site Web AQUASTAT. Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture. Site consulté le 2018/07/18

    Google Scholar 

  • Godfray CHJ, Beddington JR, Crute IR, Haddad L, Lawrence D, Muir JF, Pretty J, Robinson S, Thomas SM, Toulmin C (2010) Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people. Science 327(5967):812–818. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1185383. Originally published online 28 Jan 2010. Downloaded from http://science.sciencemag.org/ on 5 Apr 2018

  • Govers G, Merckx R, van Wesemael B, Van Oost K (2017) Soil conservation in the 21st century: why we need smart agricultural intensification. Soil 3:45–59. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-45-2017

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grewal SS, Grewal PS (2012) Can cities become self-reliant in food? Cities 29:1–11

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hungria M et al (2006) Genetic diversity of indigenous tropical fast-growing rhizobia isolated from soybean nodules. Plant Soil 288:343–356

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Illiassou SA, Diouf A, Moussa MB, Sadda AS, Mahamane A, Saadou M, (2015) Dynamics of a third world city: Case of Niamey, Niger. Journal of Geography and Regional Planning. 8(5):120–130. https://doi.org/10.5897/JGRP2015.0491

  • Jayne TS, Chamberlin J, Headey DD (2014) Land pressures, the evolution of farming systems, and development strategies in Africa: a synthesis. Food Policy 48:1–17

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kapinga AG, Sangodoyin A, Ogunkoya OO, Sulley MB, Mbegallo FJ, Madamombe GT (2019) The shift of traditional agroecosystems in the in eastern arc catchments of Tanzania. Agric Sci 10:1343–1358. https://doi.org/10.4236/as.2019.1010098

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • La Rosa D, Privitera R (2013) Characterization of non-urbanized areas for land-use planning of agricultural and green infrastructure in urban context. Landsc Urban Plan 109:94–106

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Linard C, Gilbert M, Snow RW, Noor AM, Tatem AJ (2012) Population distribution, settlement patterns and accessibility across Africa in 2010. PLoS One 7(2):e31743

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lovell ST (2010) Multifunctional Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Land Use Planning in the United States. Sustainability 2(8):2499–2522.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mbow C, Mertz O, Diouf A, Rasmussen K, Reenberg A (2008) The history of environmental change and adaptation in eastern Saloum–Senegal – driving forces and perceptions. Glob Planet Chang 64:210–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GLOPLACHA.2008.09.008. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818108001318

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mbaga MD (2014) The Prospects of sustainable desert agriculture to improve food security in Oman. Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development 13(1):114–129

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2015) Agriculture and climate change. OECD Publishing, Paris. www.oecd.org/agriculture

    Google Scholar 

  • Pan G, Pan J (2012) Research in crop land suitability analysis based on GIS. Comp Comp Technol Agric 365:314–325

    Google Scholar 

  • Pica-Ciamarra U, Otte J, Chilonda P (2007) Livestock policies, land and rural conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. Pro-poor Livestock Policy Initiative: a living from livestock research report Nr. 07-04. 20p

    Google Scholar 

  • Ray P, Sharma GK, Bandyopadhyay S, Ramachandran S, Jena RK, Singh SK (2018) Agricultural land use planning an effective means of enhancing tribal farmers’ income in Asom. Indian Farm 68(01):88–90

    Google Scholar 

  • Sayler KL, Acevedo W, Taylor JL (eds) (2016) Status and trends of land change in the Eastern United States – 1973 to 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1794–D, 195 p. https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1794D. ISSN: 2330-7102 (online)

  • Sonneveld MPW, Hack-ten Broeke MJD, van Diepen CA, Boogaard HL (2010) Thirty years of systematic land evaluation in the Netherlands. Geoderma 156:84–92

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tong Y, Xiaolin Li LJ, Sun J, Herzberger A, Wei D, Zhang W, Dou Z, Zhang F (2017) Cropping system conversion led to organic carbon change in China’s mollisols regions. Sci Rep 7:18064. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18270-5

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Verburg PH, Mertz O, Erb K-H, Haberl H, Wu W (2013) Land system change and food security: towards multi-scale land system solutions. Curr Opin Environ Sustain 5:494–502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2013.07.003

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Viljoen A, Bohn K, Howe J, (2005) CPULS: Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes—Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. Elsevier, Amsterdam

    Google Scholar 

  • Wu W, Yu Q, You L, Chen K, Tanga H, Liu J (2018) Global cropping intensity gaps: increasing food production without cropland expansion. Land Use Policy 76:515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.032

  • Yildiz M (2017) Crop production for increasing population. J Plant Genet Breed 1(1):e102

    Google Scholar 

  • Zhang X, Cai X (2011) Climate change impacts on global agricultural land availability. Environ Res Lett 6(1):014014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014014. 8pp

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Diffa, Diffa, Niger

    Salamatou Abdourahamane Illiassou

  2. African Forest Forum, C/o World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya

    Vincent Onguso Oeba

Authors
  1. Salamatou Abdourahamane Illiassou
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Vincent Onguso Oeba
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Salamatou Abdourahamane Illiassou .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, The University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

Section Editor information

  1. African Forest Forum, C/o World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya

    Vincent Onguso Oeba

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this entry

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this entry

Abdourahamane Illiassou, S., Oeba, V.O. (2020). Land-Use Planning in Agricultural Development for Food Security. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_74

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation