The role of soil series in quantitative land evaluation when expressing effects of climate change and crop breeding on future land use

Bonfante, Antonello; Bouma, J.

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.06.010

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“…Soil characteristics are one of the most important factors in agricultural land-use assessment (Dominati et al 2016;Bonfante and Bouma 2015;Juhos et al 2016). In this study, soil depth, soil water content, soil type and soil stoniness are taken as indicators to assess general soil suitability for agriculture.…”

Section: Soil Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land suitability analysis for agriculture in the Abbay basin using remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques

Yalew

Griensven

Mul

et al. 2016

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

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To meet growing population demands for food and other agricultural commodities, agricultural land-use intensification and extensification seems to be increasing in the Abbay (Upper Blue Nile) basin in Ethiopia. However, the amount, location and degree of suitability of the basin for agriculture seem not well studied and/or documented. From global data sources, literature review and field investigation, a number of agricultural land suitability evaluation criteria were identified. These criteria were preprocessed as raster layers on a GIS platform and weights of criteria raster layers in determining suitability were computed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). A weighted overlay analysis method was used to compute categories of highly suitable, moderately suitable, marginally suitable and unsuitable lands for agriculture in the basin. It was found out that 53.8 % of the basin's land coverage was highly suitable for agriculture and 23.2 % was moderately suitable. The marginally suitable and the unsuitable lands were at 11 and 12 % respectively. From the analysis, regions of the basin with high suitability as well as those with higher susceptibility for land degradation and soil erosion were identified.

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Section: Soil Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land suitability analysis for agriculture in the Abbay basin using remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques

Yalew

Griensven

Mul

et al. 2016

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

131

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“…Tabor et al (2011) presented a novel epidemiological study based on a landscape approach. Bonfante and Bouma (2015) used soil maps and simulation modeling to assess the spatial effects of irrigation practices on the growth of 11 maize hybrids, considering effects of climate change. Results allowed more efficient targeting of water allocation and choice of hybrids for different soil conditions.…”

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Facing policy challenges with inter- and transdisciplinary soil research focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Bouma

Montanarella

2016

SOIL

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Abstract. Our current information society, populated by increasingly well-informed and critical stakeholders, presents a challenge to both the policy and science arenas. The introduction of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a unique and welcome opportunity to direct joint activities towards these goals. Soil science, even though it is not mentioned as such, plays an important role in realizing a number of SDGs focusing on food, water, climate, health, biodiversity, and sustainable land use. A plea is made for a systems approach to land use studies, to be initiated by soil scientists, in which these land-related SDGs are considered in an integrated manner. To connect with policy makers and stakeholders, two approaches are functional. The first of these is the policy cycle when planning and executing research, which includes signaling, design, decision making, implementation, and evaluation. Many current research projects spend little time on signaling, which may lead to disengagement of stakeholders. Also, implementation is often seen as the responsibility of others, while it is crucial to demonstrate -if successful -the relevance of soil science. The second approach is the DPSIR approach when following the policy cycle in land-related research, distinguishing external drivers, pressures, impact, and responses to land use change that affect the state of the land in the past, present, and future. Soil science cannot by itself realize SDGs, and interdisciplinary studies on ecosystem services (ESs) provide an appropriate channel to define contributions of soil science in terms of the seven soil functions. ESs, in turn, can contribute to addressing the six SDGs (2, 3, 6, 12, 13, and 15) with an environmental, land-related character. SDGs have a societal focus and future soil science research can only be successful if stakeholders are part of the research effort in transdisciplinary projects, based on the principle of time-consuming "joint learning". The internal organization of the soil science discipline is not yet well tuned to the needs of inter-and transdisciplinary approaches.

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“…This framework also serves the mission of the NCSS to map for identifying differences in best use and management practices. Research has also shown the advantages of transferring traditional soil map unit information into forms that can be accommodated by modern modeling methods (Bonfante and Bouma, 2015).…”

Section: In Support Of the Soil Map Unit Paradigmmentioning

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Selected highlights in American soil science history from the 1980s to the mid-2010s

Brevik

Homburg

Miller

et al. 2016

CATENA

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The role of soil series in quantitative land evaluation when expressing effects of climate change and crop breeding on future land use

Cited by 47 publications

References 34 publications

Land suitability analysis for agriculture in the Abbay basin using remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques

Land suitability analysis for agriculture in the Abbay basin using remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques

Facing policy challenges with inter- and transdisciplinary soil research focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Selected highlights in American soil science history from the 1980s to the mid-2010s

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