Applying LPIS data to assess loss of agricultural land – experiences from Flanders and Denmark

Kerselaers, Eva; Levin, Gregor

doi:10.1080/00167223.2018.1537797

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“…This allowed us to focus on the changes observed in these farms, regardless of whether these effects were significant at a larger scale. Despite the interest in using the LPIS to characterize land cover, Kerselaers and Levin (2019) highlighted some limits of using these data to track changes in agricultural areas in Flanders and Denmark (e.g., some agricultural land disappearing in the LPIS). However, we did not observe a significant and persistent disappearance of agricultural areas in French LPIS data, except for actual losses of agricultural areas, as pointed out by Levavasseur et al (2016).…”

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Land cover changes with the development of anaerobic digestion for biogas production in France

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Anaerobic digestion is developing in various countries worldwide to produce renewable energy. In addition, the resulting digestates provide readily available nutrients when applied to cropping systems as fertilizers. The introduction of a biogas plant on a farm can induce land cover changes, in relation to the production of feedstock for the biogas plant and/or to the modification of the farming system. The aim of this study was therefore to characterize and quantify the land cover changes in farms associated with biogas plants in France. We combined two national spatialized databases: the Land Parcel Identification System (yearly French land cover at the parcel scale with farm identifier per parcel) and the SINOE database (biogas plant location and year of start‐up). We showed that, on average, the changes were limited, with an increase in maize areas (+3.4% of the total farm areas) compensated by a decrease in wheat and rapeseed areas (−1.8% and −1.9%, respectively), but with a certain variability. The French regulation and market limiting the use of dedicated energy crops seems to have limited land cover changes in France compared to other countries. However, we elaborated a typology of land cover changes and characterized five clusters of farms across the country. The main one (67% of the farms) corresponded to unchanged land cover after the introduction of a biogas plant. The four other clusters showed contrasting changes, for example, an increase or a decrease in grassland areas, a strong increase in maize areas, or a replacement of winter wheat by winter barley. The diversity and the driving factors behind these changes deserve to be better studied and understood through further farmer surveys.

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Land cover changes with the development of anaerobic digestion for biogas production in France

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Landscape Agronomy: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead, from a European Perspective

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Digital transdisciplinarity in land change science – integrating multiple types of digital data

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Svenningsen

2019

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

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Applying LPIS data to assess loss of agricultural land – experiences from Flanders and Denmark

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Land cover changes with the development of anaerobic digestion for biogas production in France

Land cover changes with the development of anaerobic digestion for biogas production in France

Landscape Agronomy: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead, from a European Perspective

Digital transdisciplinarity in land change science – integrating multiple types of digital data

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