Land use and its conservation

All the natural resources like land, soil, water, and wildlife provide various ecosystem services which make human life easier.

Land: 

1. Land is the most significant regular asset. It covers around 30% of the absolute space of the Earth’s surface and all pieces of this asset are not livable.
2. The lopsided dispersion of the populace in various areas of the planet is essential because of the different qualities of land and environment.
3. The rough geology, steep slopes of the mountains, low-lying regions prone to waterlogging, desert regions, and thickly forested regions are inadequately populated or uninhabited.
4. Fields and stream valleys offer appropriate land for agriculture. Subsequently, these are the thickly populated spaces of the world.

Land use: 

It refers to the use of land for different purposes such as agriculture, forestry, mining, building houses, roads, and setting up of industries.

Factors affecting land use pattern: 

1. Physical factors such as topography, soil, climate, minerals, and availability of water.
2. Human factors, such as population and technology.

Classification of land-based on ownership: 

1. Private land ownership: Private land is owned by individuals.
2. Community land ownership: Local area land is claimed by the people living in the local area for normal uses like an assortment of feed, organic products, nuts, or therapeutic spices. These people group lands are additionally called normal property assets.

Challenges to land resources: 

1. Growing demand of the people despite limited availability of land.
2. Encroachments in urban areas on common or community land for building housing complexes, and to expand the agricultural land in the rural areas.
3. Land degradation, landslides, soil erosion, desertification, etc. deteriorate the quality of the soil.
4. Utilisation and over-exploitation of land against the natural properties 

Measures for conserving land resources:

There are many methods used for the conservation of land resources. Some of them are

• Afforestation
• Land recovery and reuse
• Controlled utilisation of pesticides and manures
• Reducing overgrazing
• Development and utilisation of land in accordance with the natural environment

Conclusion

Land is one of the prominent resources that is available for all the creatures of the world. It is important to take note that human activities which affect the resource affect all other living creatures. It is time humans make effort and protect the land resources so that it is available in adequate quantity and quality to the future generations.