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Abstract
. INTRODUCTION
The Arab World’s most populous nation is Egypt. Egypt has a total area of around a million square kilometres, of which about 95 percent is desert and unoccupied land (FAO, 2015). Egypt, which occupies a region of one million square kilometres in the northeastern corner of Africa, has hyper-arid and dry climatic conditions. The desert makes up nearly 93% of Egypt’s landmass. The Nile delta and the flood plain make up the majority of the 4.2% of the land that is arable (Yossif, 2019). The Egyptian Nile Delta is among the world’s oldest agricultural regions since it has been continuously farmed for thousands of years. Estimated arable land in the Delta was 1,828,840 ha, or 63.0% of the total arable land in Egypt (Shalaby, 2012, Abowaly et al., 2018). Significant sections of the Egypt Nile Delta are being lost to urban development and (Negm et al., 2018). Around 50 million people live in the Nile Delta, one of the world’s most populous regions (Radwan et al., 2019). Evaluation of the soil is crucial to the growth of sustainable agriculture. The agricultural land evaluation approach is applied to land mapping units in order to compute the land productivity index, which is based on the value of a number of soil and environmental variables. These land-mapping units are defined by this index. For many years, soil surveyors have used remote sensing (RS) techniques as a tool to help them complete their work faster and more affordably (Palacios-Orueta and Ustin, 1998). The geographic information system (GIS) is crucial in the process of making spatial decisions. The decision-maker should see both opportunities and restrictions in the information gathered for the suitability analysis for crop production (Ghafari et al., 2000). The ultimate goal of GIS is to facilitate the process of making spatial decisions (Foote and Lynch, 1996). Many research in Egypt for the management and mapping of land resources used remote sensing and GIS (Saleh et al., 2013; Mohamed et al., 2013, 2014; Saleh and Belal, 2014). To maintain agricultural lands’ long-term productivity potential, they must be used responsibly (Foley et al 2005). Ecological, social, and economic balance are requirements for sustainable agriculture (Diver, 1996, Norman et al., 1997, Bell, 2001 and Santiago-Brown et al. 2015). The concept of sustainable agricultural land management (SALM), which is influenced by numerous environmental and social issues, is growing in popularity and acceptability (Smith and Dumanski, 1993). Sustainable development is based on evaluating land resources (Dumanski et al., 2010).
The main objective of the Current work is to evaluate Sustainable Land Management Index (SLMI) in El-Minufiya Governorate, Egypt; through five indices (productivity index, security index, protection index, economic viability index and social acceptability index) using GIS and remote sensing data.
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