Download or read book Mapping Biophysical Factors that Influence Agricultural Production and Rural Vulnerability written by Harrij van Velthuizen and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is part of a series of reports that explain how techniques of spatial analysis can be used to investigate poverty and environment links worldwide. It combines rural population distribution data contained in the global rural population database for the year 2000 with methods and results of the "Global agro-ecological assessment for agriculture in the 21st century," in order to estimate the distribution of the world's rural population by agricultural suitability class, land-use category and type of farming system.--Publisher's description.