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How to Use the LandPKS App to Learn about Your Soil
Follow along with this short tutorial on how to use the LandPKS mobile app to identify your soil and learn about its characteristics.
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Training Videos: LandInfo
A 5-part video training about how to use the LandPKS LandInfo module to identify your soil.
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Video: LandPKS Empowers Rangeland Managers
Chad Ellis explains why LandPKS is going to help empower producers to make them better tomorrow than they are today.
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Video: Using LandPKS for Research and Extension
Jeremy Schallner at New Mexico State University uses LandPKS for vegetation monitoring for research and extension.
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Unlocking the Sustainable Potential of Land Resources: Tools and References from the International Resource Panel Report
The 2016 report “Unlocking the Sustainable Potential of Land Resources: Evaluation Systems, Strategies, and Tools,” written by the International Resource Panel (IRP), examines how to better evaluate and use the potential of land on the way to achieving land degradation neutrality.
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What is Land Potential?
It is important to understand not only the potential production capacity of land but also its potential resilience. Land potential is the capacity of land to resist and recover from degradation.
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Unlocking the Sustainable Potential of Land Resources: Evaluation Systems, Strategies and Tools. A Report of the Working Group on Land and Soils of the International Resource Panel.
This report provides an introduction to land potential evaluation systems, strategies and tools necessary to implement a no-regrets” strategy for sustainably increasing agricultural production on existing land, targeting restoration efforts to where they are likely to be most successful, and guiding biodiversity conservation initiatives.
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A Risk-Based Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation in Dryland Systems Based on an Understanding of Potential Production, Soil Resistance and Resilience, and Social Stability
This research provides a strategy for maximizing return on climate change adaptation investments in drylands.
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The Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS): Mobile Apps and Collaboration For Optimizing Climate Change Investments
Massive investments in climate change mitigation and adaptation are projected during coming decades. The return on both types of investments can be increased through an understanding of land potential.
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Different Outcomes of Climate and Land Potential at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Dr. David Kimiti briefly describes the different outcomes that arise with varying climate and land potential in Lakipia.
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University of Colorado Boulder
SEEC Building, East Campus
4001 Discovery Drive, Ste. N290
Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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Wooton Hall, Room 100, NMSU
2995 Knox Street
Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA