Transcription of The FAO Guidelines for Land Evaluation - EOLSS
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land USE, land COVER AND SOIL SCIENCES - Vol. II - The FAO Guidelines for land Evaluation - , P. Koohafkan and F. Nachtergaele THE FAO Guidelines FOR land Evaluation . National Science Foundation Flanders, Geography Department, University of Gent, Belgium P. Koohafkan and F. Nachtergaele FAO land and Water Division (AGLL), Rome, Italy Keywords: land Evaluation , Suitability Classification, Matching, Actual and Potential Suitability, FAO. Contents TE SS. S. 1. Introduction 2. Basic Principles and Assumptions R. AP L. 3. Evaluation Procedure General Principles H O. land Utilization Types Crop Growth and Production Requirements C E. Factor Ratings land Data Collection E O . Agro-climatic Information Soil and Terrain Information Matching Crop Growth Requirements with land Attributes The Principle of Matching PL C.
resources. The FAO approach differs from most other land evaluation systems in three major aspects: While the former systems constituted often a direct follow up of soil surveys and soil inventory studies, becoming thus in the first place a soil survey interpretation, the FAO system started from the other end, i.e. the land use in
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