ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to analyse some of the characteristics and shortcomings of the orthodox methods of land evaluation. It explores the salient features of the indigenous systems of land evaluation that can be incorporated amicably into modern approaches to land evaluation. The chapter discusses the incorporation of relevant indigenous land evaluation schemes in modern systems of land evaluation. Land evaluation is a process involving the gathering of environmental, technological and economic information including its integration in a spatial context, and synthesis for specified purposes such as land use planning. The use of standard national or international land evaluation schemes has some problems. Land evaluation at the grassroot level would involve a village or local community with a defined area of land at its disposal, and a land resources management group whose main function is to ensure that the village land resources are managed in a sustainable manner.
