LINKS WITH BASIC CONCEPTS OF LAND EVALUATION
The next challenge is to link the environmental concerns and issues of sustainable
livelihood as described in the previous sections to the basic concepts of the 1976
Framework for land evaluation.
The major subdivisions of land use, the major kinds of land use, provide a non-
hierarchical classification of land uses. At a more detailed scale, land utilization types
(LUT) should make explicit reference to the environmental services and the main
stakeholders and sectors that are involved.
In relation to environmental services, land evaluation should incorporate
indicators that have been developed to monitor the agro-environment. The link with
the 1976 Framework is that indicators can be viewed as land qualities or land use
requirements that can guide decision-making on environmental services. The use of
agro-environmental indicators provides a sound basis for assessment as well as for
monitoring the land use. The development and use of agro-environmental indicators is
discussed in Annex 3.
Land evaluation should be regarded as an integrated process. The matrix of
interactions between governance, different sectoral policies, science and technology,
and investment and finance provides a background for understanding people’s
strategies in managing the assets to which they have access. A general stakeholder
and cross-sectoral analysis should be conducted at the onset of each land evaluation
exercise, in order to identify which groups are to benefit from the evaluation and which
groups are restricted in their options. Participatory methods and their integration with
biophysical surveys are described in the tools for land evaluation. An indicator for
social equity is a key issue when assessing land resources and their use.
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