Development Relevance:Agricultural land covers more than one-third of the world's land area. Agricultural land constitutes only a part of any country's total area, which can include areas not suitable for agriculture, such as forests, mountains, and inland water bodies. Agriculture is still a ...
These are linked to land reform, which not only has resulted in more people in the area, and with them more agriculture and livestock production, but most significantly it has resulted in the expansion of mining on land reform farms. Originally linked to Antelope mine, the town has always ha...
Aswan dam is one of the world's largest artificial water reservoirs with an earthen dam wall. Prior to the building of the dam, the Nile flooded the area regularly and provided sufficient water to the communities living along the Nile. Today climate change and raising water levels are a majo...
Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents, the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria by population. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of or...
if we look at a political map of Zambia we would not find a trace of this ancient kingdom, but instead, the province "Western" with Mongu being its capital. Interestingly, the lozi monarchy is still active nowadays. Its monarch, known as "Litunga" (guardian of the earth) is, since ...
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Of the 49,656 trees recorded, 97.9% were identified to species. Sites with >20% of trees not identified to species were discarded. Within each plot, the species and basal area of all trees with at least one stem ≥10 cm DBH were recorded. Plot data were aggregated to the site level...
The visual spectacular in the Sossusvlei area is unsurpassed. Amongst the continuous towering dunes as far as the eye can see is arguably the highlight of the Namib Desert – the Sossusvlei, an enormous clay-pan, surrounded by dunes. After a heavy rainfall, rare in this area, the vlei fill...
Spatiotemporally consistent data on global cropland extent is essential for tracking progress towards sustainable food production. In the present study, we present an analysis of global cropland area change for the first two decades of the twenty-first c