Land reform, land fragmentation and perspectives for future land consolidation in Estonia

Jürgenson, Evelin

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“…The policies and institutions mainly included land use policies, agricultural policies, and extension services. Finally, we selected the number of plots to represent land fragmentation [27], agricultural subsidy, and times of technology training [26,46]. Relating to the internal driving factors, we measured the farmers' age, education, agricultural experience, farm labor, and household income [23,47].…”

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“…Specifically, farmers are more willing to implement farmland conservation, due to a stronger sense of moral responsibility, implying that land protection policy should be focused on motivating farmers' sense of social responsibility [26]. However, land fragmentation seriously weakens farmers' enthusiasm to protect their farmland [27].According to the theory of planned behavior and relevant empirical studies, farmers' land protection perceptions are the key driving factor affecting land use behavior [26]. Beedell [28] analyzed farmers' land protection behavior in southern England, and concluded that farmers with environmental awareness are more likely to adopt environmental protection behaviors.…”

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Understanding Farmers’ Perceptions and Behaviors towards Farmland Quality Change in Northeast China: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Liu

Luo

2018

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Farmland protection is the most important land science research issue in developing countries, especially in China, due to serious land degradation. This paper aimed to reveal the causal chain among driving factors, farmers' land protection perceptions, behavioral responses, and land quality change by applying a structural equation model (SEM), based on a cross-sectional dataset of 238 households surveyed, and matched plot soil sample results in the Sujiatun District, in Liaoning province, China. The results show that, compared to internal factors, external factors play more important roles in shaping farmers' land protection awareness which subsequently transfer into land protection behaviors. Various land use behaviors lead to different impacts on land quality, in which the crop planting structure and land input density have dominant effects on changes in the soil nutrient content. The results imply that a stable and reasonable price mechanism for agricultural inputs and outputs is meaningful to land protection. Moderate land circulation would help reduce land fragmentation, develop agricultural modernization, improve production efficiency, and achieve economies of scale. In addition, knowledge, training and environmental policy information on farmland protection play key roles in land conservation activities. These main results have important implications for policymakers with regard to promoting land protection activities, alleviating land resource and environmental pressures, and thus achieving the goal of sustainable land use.Sustainability 2018, 10, 3345 2 of 17 will probably adopt some land conservation practices, in terms of using organic fertilizer and formula fertilizer, and these behaviors may further change their perspectives. Therefore, there are important theoretical and practical reasons for investigating the interrelations among farmers' land protection perceptions, behaviors and farmland quality changes from a microcosmic perspective.Some studies have focused on farmers' willingness to protect their farmland, and the influencing factors [19,20]. The characteristics of farm households and farmlands, as well as land protection policies, are closely related to farmers' perceptions of land protection [7,21,22]. Farmers' age and education positively affect land protection awareness, indicating that older farmers with higher levels of education are more likely to form stronger land protection intentions [23]. A dependence on agricultural income plays a promoting role in farmers' willingness towards land protection [24,25]. A sense of moral responsibility also has a positive effect on land protection cognition. Specifically, farmers are more willing to implement farmland conservation, due to a stronger sense of moral responsibility, implying that land protection policy should be focused on motivating farmers' sense of social responsibility [26]. However, land fragmentation seriously weakens farmers' enthusiasm to protect their farmland [27].According to the theory of planned behavior and relevant empir...

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Understanding Farmers’ Perceptions and Behaviors towards Farmland Quality Change in Northeast China: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

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2018

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“…However, one factor that is found to impede these institutional and technical approaches to increase agricultural productivity, among others, is the fragmented structure of farms [7][8][9]. In many cases land consolidation has been touted as an effective solution to land fragmentation [10][11][12]. This study starts from the endpoint of several studies including Abubakari et al, Blarel et al,Makana,, which conclude that conventional approaches to land consolidation are not viable on customary lands.…”

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Towards Responsible Consolidation of Customary Lands: A Research Synthesis

Asiama

Bennett

Zevenbergen

2019

Land

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The use of land consolidation on customary lands has been limited, though land fragmentation persists. Land fragmentation on customary lands has two main causes—the nature of the customary land tenure system, and the somewhat linked agricultural system. Since attempts to increase food productivity on customary lands have involved fertilisation and mechanisation on the small and scattered farmlands, these approaches have fallen short of increasing food productivity. A study to develop a responsible approach to land consolidation on customary lands using a design research approach is undertaken and reported here. Based on a comparative study, it is found that three factors inhibit the development of a responsible land consolidation approach on customary lands—the coverage of a land administration system, a land valuation approach, and a land reallocation approach the fits the customary land tenure system. To fill these gaps, firstly, this study developed the participatory land administration that brought together traditional land administration approaches with emerging bottom-up approaches, as well as technological advances that drive these approaches together with the growing societal needs. Secondly, a valuation approach was developed to enable the comparison of the farmlands in rural areas that are without land markets. Finally, a land reallocation approach was developed based on the political, economic and social, as well as technical and legal characteristics of rural customary farmlands. This study concludes that though the land consolidation strategy developed is significantly able to reduce land fragmentation, both physical and land tenure, the local customs are an obstruction to the technical processes to achieve the best form of farmland structures.

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“…Some experience of land consolidation has been acquired during implementation of the land reform, however, the improvement of the law is necessary. The recent publications show that the work is in the process since Estonian farmers are interested in participation in the land consolidation process [10].…”

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Relative evaluation of agricultural land for purposes of land consolidation

Palabinska¹,

Jankava²

2017

Engineering for Rural Development

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Abstract. The main tasks of land consolidation are to eliminate land fragmentation and to facilitate farms of optimal size. One of the most important preconditions of land consolidation is forming of optimal size farmland plots in property and use, and land fragmentation, which has a major impact on both the operating conditions and other rural development processes. Land fragmentation bothers not only land management, but also increases transport costs. During the land reform in the rural areas, land plots in ownership and rented land plots are developed per several land units. The other factor contributing to the fragmentation of farmlands is the development of the land market, because it is not always possible to find land next to the owner's farmland for purchasing or leasing the land for the purpose of the land area increasing. In The Land Management Law, which was adopted in 2014 by the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia, which aim was to establish a legal basis for rational land use and sustainable spatial development, the agricultural land consolidation was emphasized. In the process of land consolidation an equivalent land exchange between agricultural landowners is carried out. Foreign experience shows that different values are applied, for example, in Germany the so-called relative value of agricultural land is calculated on the bases of land's qualitative assessments. Also in Latvia some activities have been carried out in the land relative assessment for the land consolidation needs. A pilot project on agricultural land relative assessment in 2016 was carried out for land consolidation needs under the guidance of the article's authors in cooperation with the State Land Service. The aim of the paper is to examine the method of land assessment and analyse its suitability for the land parcel exchange for the purpose of the land consolidation pilot project.

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Land reform, land fragmentation and perspectives for future land consolidation in Estonia

Cited by 111 publications

References 18 publications

Understanding Farmers’ Perceptions and Behaviors towards Farmland Quality Change in Northeast China: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Understanding Farmers’ Perceptions and Behaviors towards Farmland Quality Change in Northeast China: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Towards Responsible Consolidation of Customary Lands: A Research Synthesis

Relative evaluation of agricultural land for purposes of land consolidation

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