Land consolidation – A great need to improve effectiveness. A case study from Poland

Janus, Jarosław; Markuszewska, Iwona

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.028

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“…Land consolidation is important for ensuring the economic viability of rural areas, see Van Huylenbroeck et al (1996, p. 300), Crecente et al (2002, p. 141-142), Leń and Król (2016, p. 237) and Janus andMarkuszewska (2017, p. 151), or Gonzalez et al (2007) who focus on both spatial and economic effects. Several international surveys have calculated transport time before and after land consolidation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of land consolidation

Elvestad

Sky

2019

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It is important to note that in Norway land consolidation remains the exclusive domain of the court system. There are three cumulative requirements that must be fulfilled before land consolidation can proceed in Norway. (1) The Land Consolidation Court may effectuate land consolidation if at least one property or easement in the land consolidation area is difficult to use gainfully at the current time and under the current circumstances. (2) The Land Consolidation Court may only proceed in this way in order to make the property arrangements in the land consolidation area more advantageous. (3) For any given property or easement, the land consolidation settlement shall not result in costs and other disbenefits that are greater than the benefits. All three criteria must be fulfilled. In this article, we present and analyse cases taken before the Norwegian Land Consolidation Court using case studies, surveys and qualitative interviews with property owners and judges at the land consolidation courts. The observed effects of land consolidation are separated into economic and spatial, legal, environmental and social effects. Our analysis shows that the effects of land consolidation are difficult to estimate or to calculate. There is a need to develop better methods both for valuations and impact studies.

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Effects of land consolidation

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2019

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“…The concept of land consolidation was firstly raised by Western countries in the 14th century, and was traditionally used to solve land fragmentation, and for enhancing systematic land use in the rural areas (Pašakarnis and Maliene, 2010;Janus and Markuszewska, 2017;Cay et al, 2010). Nowadays, modern land consolidation practices in the Western world has changed into multiple goals (Demetriou et al, 2012), and have established relatively sound legal protection, administrative management and complete public participation systems, as well as scientific engineering technologies (Adrianna et al, 2014;Niels, 2015;Pia et al, 2018).…”

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Practice of barren hilly land consolidation and its impact: A typical case study from Fuping County, Hebei Province of China

Feng

Zhou

2019

J. Geogr. Sci.

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Land is the root of rural revitalization, and its core is to reinvigorate land resources through the building up of land capacity. Since the late 1990s, land consolidation efforts have been widely extended to all parts of China. Land consolidation has served as an essential instrument for reinvigorating stock land, strengthening intensive land use, timely supplementing cultivated land, and promoting agricultural modernization, as well as urban-rural integration. This study uses a typical poor village (Dadao Village) in a state-designated impoverished county (Fuping County, Hebei Province), to analyze the socioeconomic benefits and eco-environmental impacts of land consolidation. With the aid of first-hand data from questionnaire surveys, face-to-face interviews and the visual interpretation of land use and land cover changes (LUCC), we found that: 1) the barren hilly land consolidation (BHLC) helps to promote the transformation of resource-advantages into asset-advantages in poverty-stricken areas. In 2017, 60.16% households in the study area gained the additional transferred-income with an annual average of 2843 yuan, while 19.11% households received the wage-income with an annual average of 9871 yuan. 2) Land consolidation inspires farmers' enthusiasm to participate in village government and helps alleviate rural poverty. From 2014 to 2017, land consolidation has helped 585 poor in the village out of poverty. Meanwhile, by land consolidation, most farmers' attitudes towards land consolidation have shifted from "not caring" to "have great concern," and their identity cognition has gradually changed from being bystanders to becoming decision makers and supervisors. 3) Further analysis demonstrated that land consolidation could not only increase the quantity and quality of arable land, but also have a certain impact on eco-environment. During 2014-2016, the BHLC in the study area transformed 242.12 ha unused barren hilly land and open forest land into well-facilitated arable land, and increased the average arable land by 0.19 ha per capita. Also, the index of land use intensity increased by 27.01% between 2014 and 2016. Farmers' perceptions of environmental awareness have confirmed that such high-intensity LUCC were significant enough to make two-side impacts on eco-environment. We appeal to establish a combined organization and encouragement mechanism of rural land consolidation, to take the full breadth and depth of farmers' participation into consideration, and to formulate more scientific and sustainable land consolidation planning. Also, we put forward some suggestions and notes for the implementation and promotion of BHLC model. These findings can provide beneficial references for those involved in policymaking and planning in the areas of land consolidation and poverty alleviation in China, as well as other developing countries around the world.

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“…Poland is among many countries in Europe, where there are substantial needs for land management and agricultural works (Janus and Markuszewska, 2017;Pasakarnis and Maliene, 2010;Pődör and Mizsei-Nyiri, 2015;Leń, 2018). The needs for land consolidation in Poland cover the area of approximately 7.1 million hectares (Jędrejek et al, 2014).…”

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The Potential of Natural Conditions in Juxtaposition With Land Consolidation – Case Study of Lubelskie Voivodship (Lublin Region)

Dudzińska¹,

Prus²

2018

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In Poland, land consolidation works are mainly carried out in the southern part of the country. In three administrative regions (voivodships): Lubelskie, Podkarpackie and Malopolskie, in the years 2004-2013, a large number of land consolidation projects were carried out compared to the national average, namely, above 20 thousand hectares in each of the regions. In other three regions (Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Zachodniopomorskie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie) there have been no land consolidation projects, although research shows (Jędrejek et al., 2014) that the need for consolidation works is found in all regions. According to Woch and Głażewski (2014), one of the reasons for this is the difficulty in the implementation of land consolidation projects resulting from the need to preserve the valuable natural qualities of the environment in protected areas. The aim of the article is to analyse and assess the natural potential of individual municipalities, as well as to juxtapose the calculated indices against the area size of the already completed land consolidation works. In the article, we attempt to answer the following questions: Is there a relationship between the natural conditions of the municipalities where the consolidation work on agricultural land was carried out, and the area size of the implemented consolidation projects in the studied area? Is the impact of the natural potential of municipalities positive or negative in relation to the ongoing land consolidation projects? What are the environmental conditions of the municipalities in which the consolidation of agricultural land was carried out? The study involved the query of literature on the subject. Analysis and evaluation of natural conditions was made on the basis of research following a spatial-statistical approach. The potential of the natural environment has been analysed in terms of valorisation of the agricultural production space, analysis of the forest cover (afforestation) index, and the index of protected areas. A synthetic assessment of the natural environment potential index was made, and then Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated between the calculated environmental potential index, and the area size of the completed consolidation projects. The research area comprised the Lublin region (Lubelskie voividship). Administrative unit of the municipality served as the primary entity under assessment. The units in which land consolidation projects were carried out in the years 2004-2013 were analysed in detail. Research has shown that the potential of the natural environment in the majority of municipalities in the Lublin region has beet determined on the medium level. It has also been shown that there is correlation dependence between the area size of the completed land consolidation projects and the level of the potential of natural conditions. The quality of the natural environment in rural areas is potentially threatened by the intensification of agricultural production, because economic expansion may affect the disappearance of natural habi...

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Land consolidation – A great need to improve effectiveness. A case study from Poland

Cited by 77 publications

References 31 publications

Effects of land consolidation

Effects of land consolidation

Practice of barren hilly land consolidation and its impact: A typical case study from Fuping County, Hebei Province of China

The Potential of Natural Conditions in Juxtaposition With Land Consolidation – Case Study of Lubelskie Voivodship (Lublin Region)

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