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DOI	10.3390/foods13040568
	Spatial Assessment of Land Suitability Potential for Agriculture in Nigeria
	Chiaka, Jeffrey Chiwuikem; Zhen, Lin; Xiao, Yu; Hu, Yunfeng; Wen, Xin; Muhirwa, Fabien
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2304-8158
起始页码	13
结束页码	4
卷号	13 期号:4
英文摘要	From land cover analysis, cropland expansion was a major driving factor for land use land cover changes in Nigeria from 2000 to 2020. This further highlights the food production needs in the country. While this land use change indicates a significant alteration in land cover, it was exigent to assess land suitability using a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) combined with geospatial techniques to identify areas with agricultural suitability potential and to analyze cropland suitability. The results showed that the country had 8% of very high suitability, high suitability (25%), moderate suitability (29%), and marginal suitability (25%) croplands. However, low suitability accounts for 14% of the entire cropland. The spatial distribution of cropland suitability shows that most areas in the South East, South South, and South West, respectively, have the most suitable cropland as they meet the biophysical conditions for crop production, followed by the North Central regions, while most places in the North (North East and North West) have a higher share of moderate to low suitability. This study highlights the potential of the country to target localized self-sufficiency. Therefore, this study recommends using the cropland suitability map to launch food security programs across the six geopolitical zones to maximize their inherent environmental potentials to alleviate the country's food production needs.
英文关键词	land cover; environmental factors; cropland suitability; analytical hierarchal process; Nigeria
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Food Science & Technology
WOS类目	Food Science & Technology
WOS记录号	WOS:001170388300001
来源期刊	FOODS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/295957
作者单位	Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, CAS; Beijing Normal University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; Carleton University; Carleton University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xinjiang Institute of Ecology & Geography, CAS
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chiaka, Jeffrey Chiwuikem,Zhen, Lin,Xiao, Yu,et al. Spatial Assessment of Land Suitability Potential for Agriculture in Nigeria[J],2024,13(4).
APA	Chiaka, Jeffrey Chiwuikem,Zhen, Lin,Xiao, Yu,Hu, Yunfeng,Wen, Xin,&Muhirwa, Fabien.(2024).Spatial Assessment of Land Suitability Potential for Agriculture in Nigeria.FOODS,13(4).
MLA	Chiaka, Jeffrey Chiwuikem,et al."Spatial Assessment of Land Suitability Potential for Agriculture in Nigeria".FOODS 13.4(2024).