Land use/land cover change analysis and its impact on soil properties in the northern part of Gadarif region, Sudan

• Main Authors: Biro, Khalid, Pradhan, Biswajeet, Buchroithner, Manfred, Makeschin, Franz
• Format: Article
• Published: John Wiley & Sons 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28531/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.1116/abstract

Several decades of intensive dry land farming in the Gadarif region, located in the Eastern part of Sudan, has led to rapid land use/land cover (LULC) changes mainly due to agricultural expansion, government policies and environmental calamities such as drought. In this paper, an attempt has been ma...