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Colby College

Journal

2010

Agriculture

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Land Use In The Belgrade Lakes Region, Adrienne Bowles Apr 2010

Land Use In The Belgrade Lakes Region, Adrienne Bowles

Atlas of Maine

This map highlights land use in the Belgrade Lakes region in Kennebec County, Maine, including development in urbanized areas, agriculture, forestry, and road networks. The map also includes biotic land cover, such as conserved areas (e.g., forest cover, wetlands, etc.) as well as locations of major bodies of water.


Suitability Of Land For Agriculture In Tanzania, Taylor Tully, Megan Browning Apr 2010

Suitability Of Land For Agriculture In Tanzania, Taylor Tully, Megan Browning

Atlas of Maine

Agriculture is vital to the economy of Tanzania, providing many jobs and contributing to a large portion of the GDP. This project sought to answer the following question: What land is suitable for agriculture in Tanzania? We hypothesized that in addition to land currently in use for agriculture, there would exist additional land suitable for agriculture that had not yet been realized as such. We used logistic regression to created a model that predicted agricultural suitability across the country. We evaluated twenty variables and came up with nine predictors of agriculture that we included in our final model. The results …