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A CONFERENCE on “Land Use in a Mediterranean Environment“ was held in Nicosia, Cyprus, during April 16-17 under the chairmanship of the Colonial Secretary, Mr. R. E. Turnbull. In addition to senior officers of the Cyprus Government Departments interested in land use-agriculture, forests, water, co-operation and land registration and survey-and a number of Cypriot non-officials representing farmers' organisations, there were present Dr. R. O. Whyte, director of the Imperial Bureau of Pastures and Forage Crops, and six officers from Palestine Government Departments connected with land and its use. Mr. Turnbull, in opening the conference, explained that it had been organised as a result of a visit which Dr. Whyte had made in the autumn of 1945, in the course of which he had formed the opinion that there was in Cyprus a fund of technical knowledge and practical experience on a number of subjects connected with land use which could with benefit be brought out at such a conference. Papers, each followed by a general discussion, were read on: land use in relation to the climate and topography of Cyprus (J. MacDonald, director of agriculture) ; State forests and their role in the island's land-use economy (R. Waterer, conservator of forests) ; water control in Cyprus (A. Cawley, assistant water engineer); forest grazing (G. Chapman, assistant conservator of forests) ; tenure and inheritance of immovable property in Cyprus and the 1946 reforms (P. Christo-doulou, Department of Land Registration and Survey) ; development of co-operation in Cyprus (R. Henry, registrar of co-operative societies) ; soil fertility in the arable lands of Cyprus in relation to land use (L. Littlejohn, Department of Agriculture) ; trees and their place in village land use and development (T. Couppis, assistant conservator of forests) ; animal husbandry in relation to land use and environment (J. Maule, Agricultural Department). It is hoped to publish the proceedings of the conference shortly.
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Land Use in Cyprus. Nature 157, 870 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157870a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157870a0