Land Use is characterised by the arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover type to produce, change or maintain it" (from "Terminology for integrated resources planning and management", FAO, 1999).
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Review of Global Land Use Data
Agro-MAPS (sub national aggregated crop statistics)
FAOSTAT (national aggregated crop statistics)
Irrigated Areas: FAO-Aquastat
Cultivation Intensity: NASA
Global Ecosystems: USGS
Protected Areas: UNEP-WCMC
Farming Systems
Historical Land-use Changes: SAGE, RIVM
GLIPHA (sub national livestock data)

LADA - Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands
National Land Use Classification Systems
International Land Use Classification Systems
Reports on Global Reference Systems
Proposal for a Global Land-use Classification
Towards an International Classification of Land Use
First Approximation of a Reference Land Use Classification
Demonstration Program for the Inter-comparison of Land Classification

Land Use Database - LUDB, 1993
Integrated Land Use Surveys
Reports on the Availability of Land Use Data
Benin
Guinea
Senegal

LUCC (Land Use and Cover Change)
PAGE (Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems)
Africover
GLC2000 (Global Land Cover 2000)
Millenium Assessment
Land Use Change (IIASA)

An overview of land evaluation and land use planning at FAO
Word document    Powerpoint presentation

FAO publications
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