Agricultural terraces are common in mountain regions. They are built to provide a larger
surface area for cultivation on hillslopes and to aid farming production in the long term. This …

The world population is estimated to reach nine billion by 2050. Many challenges are
adding pressure on the current agriculture supply chains that include shrinking land sizes …

Mapping and monitoring of land use land cover (LULC) changes in the Himalayas is vital for
sustainable development, planning and management. Based on remote sensing (RS) and …

In modern agriculture, only the cultivation of highly productive and easily accessible slopes
remains profitable. As a consequence, inaccessible and steep areas are being increasingly …

The potential to derive indicators of sustainable resource use from satellite remote sensing
is discussed. Particular attention focuses on indicators related to land cover condition and …

Inventories of past and present land cover changes form the basis of future conservation and
landscape management strategies. Modern classification techniques can be applied to more …

Land-use change has important implications for sustainable livelihood of local communities
where traditional crop–livestock mixed farming is sustained with local inputs. Knowledge of …

Soil salinization is an extremely serious land degradation problem in arid and semi-arid
regions that hinders the sustainable development of agriculture and food security …

Provision of landscape amenities produced by farmers, in addition to their economic function
of producing food and fibre, has contributed to a reassessment of the role of agriculture in …

To restore China's degraded environment, the government launched an environmental
restoration project named the “Grain for Green” Project (GGP) in 1999. From 1999 to 2010 …