Land Quality Indicators and Their Use in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development













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Proceedings of the Workshop
organized by the
Land and Water Development Division
FAO Agriculture Department
and the
Research, Extension and Training Division
FAO Sustainable Development Department
25-26 January 1996

Paper prepared under the Land Quality Indicators initiative

WORLD BANK

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Rome, 1997

Reprinted 1998

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FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACRONYMS

SUMMARY REPORT AND CONCLUSIONS

SESSION 1: RECENT EFFORTS TO DEVELOP INDICATORS

Land resources evaluation and the role of land-related indicators

The context of indicators in FAO

Development of environmental indicators in UNEP

Application of the pressure-state-response framework for the land quality indicators (LQI) programme

Land condition change indicators for sustainable land resource management

SESSION 2: SECTORAL ISSUES IN DEVELOPING INDICATORS

Global and regional databases for development of state land quality indicators: the SOTER and GLASOD approach

Land quality indicators: aspects of land use, land, soil and plant nutrients

Farming systems indicators for sustainable natural resource management

Indicators for sustainable water resources development

Land quality indicators from the viewpoint of inland fisheries and aquaculture

Indicators for Sustainable Development of Fisheries

SESSION 3: THEMATIC ISSUES IN DEVELOPING INDICATORS

Land quality indicators: ideas stimulated by work in Costa Rica, North India and Central Ecuador

Land quality and other indicators of sustainable development statistical data, quality control and problems of aggregation

Considerations and constraints on the use of indicators in sustainable agriculture and rural development

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS