Improving education on land management

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends that: (a) all relevant sectors concerned should be trained to deal with land resources in an integrated and sustainable manner; and (b) all countries, particularly developing countries, alone or in regional or subregional groupings, should be given access to modern techniques of land-resource management, such as geographical information systems, satellite photography/imagery and other remote-sensing technologies.

1. Upgrading
2. Building capacity for land management
3. Improving education
4. Managing land
5. Improving

1. Transferring sustainable land management practices to and among developing countries
2. Informing about integrated land resources management

1. Undertaking national survey of land resources
2. Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management
3. Strengthening land management research
4. Preparing detailed land capability inventories as basis for sustainable land management
5. Land use planning
6. Improving planning and management systems
7. Improving land and water management by farmers in arid regions
8. Improving land
9. Improving accessibility of land resources
10. Developing sustainability indicators for land resources
11. Developing ortho-photography landbases

1. Training in land resource management
2. Strengthening United Nations advisory role on drought, desertification and land resource management
3. Providing public land management agencies with modern computer and survey equipment
4. Developing sustainable land use policy
5. Creating community land trust

1. Strengthening technology education

1. Agricultural mismanagement