Economic and Ecological Approaches to Land Fragmentation: In Defense of a Much-Maligned Phenomenon

Bentley, Jeffery W.

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.16.100187.000335

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“…Hartvigsen (2014) investigated land fragmentation in Central and Eastern Europe and found that when both land ownership and land use is highly fragmented, agricultural and rural development are often negatively affected. Bentley (1987) also pointed out that land fragmentation is considered by agricultural policy makers as a source of ineffective agriculture and, thus, must be prevented by legislative actions. Latruffe and Piet (2013) differentiate five dimensions of land fragmentation covering the number of plots farmed, plot size, the shape of plots, the distance of the plots from farm buildings and the distances between plots (or plot scattering).…”

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Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Lazíková¹,

Rumanovská²,

Takáč³

et al. 2017

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Lazikova J., Rumanovska L., Takac I., Lazikova Z. (2017): Land fragmentation and eff orts to prevent it in Slovak legislation. Agric. Econ. -Czech, 63: 559-568.Abstract: Agricultural land represents a country's natural heritage. Th erefore, land protection is an issue that is the subject of various legislative measures, also including those that aff ect land fragmentation. Land fragmentation is a problem that hinders the eff ective use of land. In 1995, Slovak lawmakers adopted Law 180/1995 Coll., which prevents the fragmentation of land under a minimum size. Th e aim of this paper was to determine whether Slovak legislation concerning land fragmentation is eff ective and prevents this phenomenon. We compare the Slovak legislation with the legislations of other countries, and, further, we describe the existing situation with respect to land fragmentation in the individual regions of the country according to the requirements of Slovak legal regulations. Th e results include proposals for the potential amendment of the legal regulation to ensure the eff ective prevention of land fragmentation.

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Section: Doi: 1017221/180/2016-agriceconmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Lazíková¹,

Rumanovská²,

Takáč³

et al. 2017

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…Land fragmentation, also known as pulverization, parcellization or scattering (Bentley, 1987), is defined in the literature as the situation in which a single farm consists of numerous spatially separated parcels (Binns, 1950;King and Burton, 1982;McPherson, 1982;Van Dijk, 2003). It is characterised as a fundamental rural spatial problem concerned with farms which are poorly organised at locations across space (King and Burton, 1982).…”

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“…Firstly, there is a viewpoint that sees land fragmentation as the source of ineffective agriculture (Sklenicka et al, 2014;Apata et al, 2014;Latruffe and Piet, 2014;Corral et al, 2011;Di Falco et al, 2010;Rahman and Rahman, 2008;Van Hung et al, 2007;Bentley, 1987). This viewpoint considers land fragmentation as a major threat to efficient production system due to the fact that continuous subdivision of farms would lead to small sized land holdings that may be hard to economically operates.…”

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Land fragmentation, agricultural productivity and implications for agricultural investments in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) region, Tanzania

Kadigi¹,

Kashaigili²,

Sirima³

et al. 2017

J. Dev. Agric. Econ.

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There are polarized evidences of the impact of agricultural land fragmentation on land productivity. On the one hand there viewpoints which consider land fragmentation to harm agricultural productivity. On the other hand there are counter thoughts which view land fragmentation as a positive situation which allows farmers to cultivate many environmental zones, minimise production risk and optimise the schedule for cropping activities. We use the case of Ihemi cluster in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) to investigate the impact of land fragmentation on crop productivity. We furthermore discuss the nature and causes of land fragmentation in the SAGCOT region and its implication on the future structure of agricultural landholdings and welfare of smallholder farmers in the region. The results showed that the nature and level of fragmentation in the study area were the outcome of combined, rather than isolated influences of supply and demand driven factors. Overall, the results did not support the claim that fragmentation reduces land productivity. This then implies that land fragmentation should not always be considered as defective. There were evidences of increasing chunks of land owned by rich farmers and investors which increased the possibility for increased consolidation of agricultural land under large scale farming. However, the landholdings for smallholder farmers might become increasingly more fragmented as poor smallholder farmers continue selling their land holdings to rich farmers and investors. Releasing the SAGCOT region's potential for agricultural development will require that smallholder farmers are helped to secure adequate and suitable land for farming, raise agricultural productivity, diversify their sources of income, and adopt good production practices. This requires setting up a strong base of investor -farmer synergies for inclusive agricultural growth.

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“…One of the biggest land use issues is a high level of fragmentation of land holdings. Fragmentation is mainly due to the enforcement of inheritance law, as discussed by (Noga 1977;King, Burton 1982;Bentley 1987;Tan et al 2006;Hung et al 2007), and depends, first and foremost, on historical, cultural and social factors. Research conducted in Poland (Leń, Noga 2010;Leń et al 2015;Leń, Mika 2016a;Janus et al 2016) has demonstrated a very high level of fragmentation of individual land holdings, especially in south-eastern Poland.…”

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The Use Of Statistical Methods in Creation of the Urgency Ranking of the Land Consolidation and Land Exchange Works

Leń

2017

Proccedings of 10th International Conference "Environmental Engineering"

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Abstract. In the analyzes of the urgency of the land consolidation and land exchange works, and particularly in the spatial comparative analyzes it is helpful to use methods of multivariate statistics, which allows the determination of synthetic measure. Synthetic measures substitute the large set of attributes of the object with one aggregate variable, allowing ordering the analyzed objects (villages) in terms of the phenomenon in question of the urgency of carrying out the work of consolidation and exchange of land. The aim of the paper is to determine measures for the urgency of carrying out the works of consolidation and exchange of land according to the method proposed by Z. Hellwig and comparison of the obtained results with the results obtained using the zero unitarisation method (ZUM). The aim of the analyzes is to verify (check), how the use of different methods of aggregation of the same diagnostic variables affects the results of research. The subject of the research consists of 14 precincts located in the municipality Białaczów, in the Łódzkie voivodship region. To construct the synthetic measure for the urgency of carrying out the works of consolidation and exchange of land 5 groups of features characterizing the works related to consolidation and exchange of land were adopted.Keywords: land consolidation, spatial structure of land use, land fragmentation, ranking the work of consolidation and exchange land.Conference topic: Technologies of geodesy and cadastre.

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Economic and Ecological Approaches to Land Fragmentation: In Defense of a Much-Maligned Phenomenon

Cited by 210 publications

References 32 publications

Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Land fragmentation and efforts to prevent it in Slovak legislation

Land fragmentation, agricultural productivity and implications for agricultural investments in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) region, Tanzania

The Use Of Statistical Methods in Creation of the Urgency Ranking of the Land Consolidation and Land Exchange Works

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