Agro-ecological land resources assessment for agricultural development planning. A case study of Kenya. Making land use choices for district planning

G.W. Fischer and J. Antoine
Land and Water Development Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Rome, 1994

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

AEZ methodology - an overview

Exploring Kenya-AEZ

Exploring the land resources inventory
Generating yield tables according to moisture conditions (a)
Generating yield tables according to moisture conditions (b)

Spatial resource allocation - a linear programming approach

The LP matrix generator
The objective function
The LP constraint set

Assessing district planning scenarios with Kenya-AEZ

The scenario control file (SCF) (a)
The scenario control file (SCF) (b)

References
Appendix A Kenya case study coding schemes (A1)
Appendix A Kenya case study coding schemes (A2)
Appendix A Kenya case study coding schemes (A3-A5)
Appendix A Kenya case study coding schemes (A6-A12)
Appendix A Kenya case study coding schemes (A13-A16)
Appendix A Kenya case study coding schemes (A17-A18)
Appendix B Linear programming model (B1-B2)
Appendix B Linear programming model (B3)
Appendix C MPS record format