Reallocation model for land consolidation based on landowners’ requests

Responsible consolidation of customary lands

“…The approach significantly reduced the number of farmland parcels, increase the farmland parcel sizes, reduce land tenure fragmentation, increase accessibility to lines of transportation and slightly improve the parcel sizes in the area. The size of the farmland parcels and the number of parcels per holding have been used by many studies as the key indicators of land fragmentation and the success of land reallocation (Akkaya Aslan et al, 2018;Cay & Iscan, 2011;Ertunç et al, 2018;Uyan et al, 2013). In the area of interest, the increase of the average farmland parcel size from 1.25 to 2.20ha, put it above the national average of 2ha (MoFA-SRID, 2016).…”

“…With the proportion of farms that meet this threshold increasing from 9% to 30%, the effects of land fragmentation have been reduced in that respect. The parcel shape has been a less considered indicator of land fragmentation and success of land reallocation in many recent studies (Akkaya Aslan et al, 2018;Cay & Iscan, 2011;Ertunç et al, 2018;Uyan et al, 2013;Uyan et al, 2015). Parcel shape determines the ease with which linear field operations like ploughing and mechanised harvesting can be undertaken Lee & Sallee, 1970;Wheeler, 1973).…”

“…Physical land fragmentation has been the Western European view of land fragmentation, as the key causes of fragmentation in that region are inheritance and population growth, hence the solution to land fragmentation had been geared towards dealing with the physical aspect. Several studies limit the indicators for physical land fragmentation to the number of farmland parcels owned by a farmer, and the sizes of the farmland parcels (Akkaya Aslan et al, 2018;Ertunç et al, 2018;Uyan et al, 2013). Though the shape of the parcels, and the accessibility to the parcels also play a role in the effects of fragmentation .…”

“…Several attempts have hence been made to make land reallocation processes more objective. The multidisciplinary approaches to land reallocation, in the past decade, have been mostly geared towards improving the technical aspect, at the expense of the socio-cultural aspects (Akkaya Aslan et al, 2018;Demetriou, 2014;Haklı et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2018). Cay and Uyan (2013) use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (A.H.P.)…”

“…The main drawback in this approach is its complexity which requires the rapt attentiveness needed for the farmers to score their parcels in four criteria, with seven categories. Akkaya Aslan et al (2018) tries to improve and simplify this approach also based on land owners' preferences, spatial spread of the farms, blocks, and priority parcels. The model is divided into two parts -the request entry and the re-allocation modules.…”