Synopsis : Amid mounting pressure from climate change, declining agricultural production, and unplanned infrastructure expansion, the Kerala government constituted a committee to draft a comprehensive Land Use Policy. Comprehensive spatial data on land use and cover play a crucial role in resource management, agriculture planning, and environmental protection.

In a state where every inch of land is contested, Kerala’s fragmented and unscientific land-use pattern is fast turning into one of its biggest development bottlenecks.

Rapid urbanisation is swallowing up fertile farmland, fragile ecologically sensitive zones are being pushed to the brink, and recurring disasters — from landslides to floods — are exposing the cracks in the state’s planning framework.

Amid mounting pressure from c

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