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Lesotho - Land Cover Atlas

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 81 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-109727-4

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Lesotho Land Cover Database (LCDB) and ATLAS have been prepared in the framework of the FAO Emergency Program (OSRO/LES/401/EC): “Building Lesotho resilience through the upscale of Climate Smart Agriculture and functional DRR Land Resources Information”. The LCDB was developed in close collaboration with Lesotho Governmental Institutions including: Bureau of the Statistics (BOS), Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Ministry of Forestry, Range and Soil Conservation (MFRSC). The Lesotho Government supported the development of the Land Cover database providing valuable analogic and digital information. The very high resolution true color Ortho-photos of 2014 and 2004 that were provided by the Bureau of the Statistics (BOS) played a decisive role on the development of the database ensuring a very high and detailed quality and accuracy of the product. Furthermore, the Lesotho Government through, the Bureau of the Statistics and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security , supported the field survey activities, development of the land cover classification legend and validation of the LCDB with skilled experts that provided important inputs for a reliable and accurate land cover database. The Land Cover Atlas of the Lesotho provides information on the land cover distribution by Administrative boundaries and River catchment areas. The administrative unit layer as well as the water basin layer and a number of ancillary datasets are provided by the Ministry of Fores try, Range and Soil Conservation (MFRSC), Ministry of Local Government and Chieftainship Affairs (MLGCA), Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture (MTEC), Ministry of Water Affairs (MWA) and Lesotho Land Administration Authority (LAA).

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