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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,657 Views
21 Pages

25 November 2020

In 2000, to efficiently implement land-use policies, the Taiwanese government amended the Agricultural Development Act by easing restrictions on agricultural land purchases. As a result of increasing land development and investment needs, agricultura...

  • Discussion
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,955 Views
13 Pages

State Interventionism in Agricultural Land Turnover in Poland

  • Agnieszka Stacherzak,
  • Maria Hełdak,
  • Ladislav Hájek and
  • Katarzyna Przybyła

13 March 2019

The study discusses the problem of land grabbing and state interventionism in agricultural land transactions in Poland, and presents the effects of active policy implemented by the state on limiting the flow of agricultural land. The research covers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,582 Views
19 Pages

3 March 2023

The growing and multiple interests in land as a resource has led to an increase in locally or regionally clashing land use interests on agricultural land which may result in conflicts or open up possibilities for synergies. Urbanization, food product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,026 Views
22 Pages

9 January 2018

This research paper presents the results of analyses that address the direction in which the issue of land use in Malopolska has been heading in recent years. The authors formulated the thesis that changes occurring in the use of agricultural land ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
132 Citations
48,246 Views
19 Pages

Agricultural Land Conversion, Land Economic Value, and Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study in East Java, Indonesia

  • Mohammad Rondhi,
  • Pravitasari Anjar Pratiwi,
  • Vivi Trisna Handini,
  • Aryo Fajar Sunartomo and
  • Subhan Arif Budiman

30 November 2018

Agricultural land conversion (ALC) is an incentive-driven process. In this paper, we further investigate the inter-relationship between land economic value (LEV) and ALC. To achieve this goal, we calculated the LEV for agricultural and non-agricultur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,392 Views
22 Pages

31 March 2025

This study utilized data from 300 prefecture-level cities in China, spanning from 2000 to 2020, and employed a difference-in-differences (DID) model to investigate the influence of land development rights on agricultural land prices, alongside the me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,007 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2022

Land is essential to livelihoods, so it is hard to overstate its strategic significance for well-being and prosperity. It has been detected that farm size greatly influences agricultural sustainability from the viewpoints of the economy, environment,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,650 Views
20 Pages

7 July 2025

The adoption of agricultural technologies is paramount for enhancing global agricultural productivity and sustainability. However, widespread implementation faces significant challenges, particularly in developing regions. Using data from the China L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,077 Views
13 Pages

28 October 2022

This study assesses the impact of insecure land tenure on sustainable agricultural development in Africa to demonstrate how the economic profitability of agriculture strongly depends on land tenure security. The Republic of Benin is used as the case...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,449 Views
20 Pages

This research deals with the problem of agricultural land market efficiency using the spatial market integration concept as well as the present value (PV) model. Empirically, it aims to test the convergence of agricultural land prices across Polish p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,313 Views
25 Pages

Agricultural Land Markets: A Systematic Literature Review on the Factors Affecting Land Prices

  • Martina Agosta,
  • Emanuele Schimmenti,
  • Caterina Patrizia Di Franco and
  • Antonio Asciuto

1 May 2025

The UN 2030 Agenda implicitly recognizes the crucial role of the agricultural land market in several Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to food security, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. However, the dynamics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,412 Views
22 Pages

Land Consolidation and Its Effects on Afforested Agricultural Land: A Case Study of Ukraine

  • Mykola Malashevskyi,
  • Olena Kishchak,
  • Olena Malashevska and
  • Yuriy Kishchak

12 February 2025

The study is dedicated to the optimization of the naturally afforested land plots. The purpose of this paper was to substantiate land consolidation in the environment of natural afforestation in Ukraine. The look-back analysis of afforestation in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,579 Views
17 Pages

The objective of this research is to explore the impact mechanism of agricultural digital transformation in alleviating the mismatch of agricultural land resources and provide an effective path for the formation of new quality agricultural productivi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,070 Views
10 Pages

Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Agricultural Production in District Bahawalnagar, Pakistan

  • Aamir Raza,
  • Muhammad Adnan Shahid,
  • Muhammad Safdar,
  • Muhammad Zaman,
  • Rehan Mehmood Sabir,
  • Hafsa Muzammal and
  • Mian Muhammad Ahmed

Land use and land cover (LULC) change is a major driver of environmental change in District Bahawalnagar, Punjab. LULC change can lead to changes in soil quality, water availability, and climate, all of which can affect crop yields. LULC change can a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,951 Views
22 Pages

6 December 2023

Agricultural land protection is vital for the realization of national food security and an ecological civilization. From the perspective of agricultural ecological value and landscape value, perfecting the theory of agricultural land rent is benefici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,103 Views
18 Pages

Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region

  • Nerea Morán-Alonso,
  • Andrés Viedma-Guiard,
  • Marian Simón-Rojo and
  • Rafael Córdoba-Hernández

10 January 2025

Agricultural land is a key resource for territorial resilience. In the European context, fertile soils are under pressure not only from urbanisation processes, abandonment and the establishment of non-agricultural uses but also from agriculture that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,310 Views
20 Pages

Land Access Modes and Agricultural Productivity in Benin

  • Christelle Yèba Akpo,
  • Cristina Bianca Pocol,
  • Maria-Georgeta Moldovan and
  • Denis Acclassato Houensou

3 October 2024

Improving productivity is an important channel for satisfying household food needs through food availability. Increasing the productivity of small-scale farmers is linked to a number of factors, including land access, labor, chemicals, fertilizers an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
16,112 Views
18 Pages

2 May 2020

This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity. Using 85 studies, the paper focuses on the regular claim that land registration&rsq...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,516 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2021

With the expansion of the global transnational agricultural planting scale, research on transnational agricultural land investment is growing. In order to analyze the development context and basic characteristics of this research, and to discover the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,705 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2024

Facility agriculture is an important initiative to adopt an all-encompassing approach to food and build a diversified food supply system. Understanding the evolution of facility agricultural land and the factors that drive it can contribute to the de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,395 Views
20 Pages

Regional Differences of Agricultural Land Market in Slovakia: A Challenge for Sustainable Agriculture

  • Jarmila Lazíková,
  • Ľubica Rumanovská,
  • Ivan Takáč,
  • Piotr Prus and
  • Alexander Fehér

The agricultural land market and its legal and political limitations play an important role in sustainable agricultural production. This study analyzed the agricultural land market in particular regions of Slovakia in terms of the sustainability of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,646 Views
23 Pages

Driving Forces of Agricultural Land Abandonment: A Lithuanian Case

  • Daiva Juknelienė,
  • Viktorija Narmontienė,
  • Jolanta Valčiukienė and
  • Gintautas Mozgeris

18 April 2025

The abandonment of agricultural land is now considered one of the primary land use changes driven by complex interactions between social, economic, and environmental factors. To understand and manage this process, a holistic approach that integrates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,893 Views
19 Pages

Croatian LADM Profile Extension for State-Owned Agricultural Land Management

  • Josip Lisjak,
  • Miodrag Roić,
  • Hrvoje Tomić and
  • Siniša Mastelić Ivić

23 February 2021

The paper presents a conceptual model for the disposition of state agricultural land. The model is made as an extension of the Croatian Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) country profile. The LADM 19152:2012 is an International Organization for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
800 Views
19 Pages

14 August 2025

Against the backdrop of pervasive land fragmentation and high transaction costs, organized land transfer has emerged as a growing trend in China’s agricultural land market, facilitating the transition toward moderate-scale farming. Based on sur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,916 Views
20 Pages

Land Governance and Fragmentation Patterns of Agricultural Land Use in Southern Romania during 1990–2020

  • Diana Dogaru,
  • Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor,
  • Claudiu-Valeriu Angearu,
  • Laura Lupu and
  • Dan Bălteanu

18 July 2024

In Romania, excessive fragmentation of croplands remains persistent in areas of significant agricultural potential as a consequence of combined factors involving both land governance and farms’ characteristics. This paper examines the fragmenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,640 Views
18 Pages

14 November 2019

Land suitable for agricultural production is limited and should be used in a sustainable manner and protected. Countries of the former communist bloc, where the majority of the agricultural land was dynamically privatized, are in a special situation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,854 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2022

The research on the land resources embodied in the inter-regional economic linkages is of great significance for the ecological compensation and sustainable use of the cultivated land. We constructed a model to estimate the agricultural land transfer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,079 Views
23 Pages

A Comparison of Approaches to Regional Land-Use Capability Analysis for Agricultural Land-Planning

  • Tara A. Ippolito,
  • Jeffrey E. Herrick,
  • Ekwe L. Dossa,
  • Maman Garba,
  • Mamadou Ouattara,
  • Upendra Singh,
  • Zachary P. Stewart,
  • P. V. Vara Prasad,
  • Idrissa A. Oumarou and
  • Jason C. Neff

24 April 2021

Smallholder agriculture is a major source of income and food for developing nations. With more frequent drought and increasing scarcity of arable land, more accurate land-use planning tools are needed to allocate land resources to support regional ag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,885 Views
28 Pages

27 October 2022

Large-scale agricultural land management has become the obvious development trend of China’s rural land management. This paper focuses on large-scale agricultural land management in China and analyzes the influence mechanism of large-scale agri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,451 Views
17 Pages

22 September 2021

The study aims to reveal the transition features of agricultural land use in the Groundnut Basin of Senegal from 2009 to 2018, especially the impact of urbanization on agricultural land and the viewpoint of farmland spatiotemporal evolution. Integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,415 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2024

Geopolitical conflicts and power games among major nations present substantial challenges to cross-border trade and global economic development; however, the existing literature has paid limited attention to the role of geopolitical risk in agricultu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,203 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2016

Recently, land use and land cover change have received increased attention, and an approach is required that can assess agricultural land use intensity on a general basis. This study demonstrated the usefulness of a tool for characterizing and assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,928 Views
23 Pages

8 February 2025

Sustainable agriculture has been proposed by the United Nations as a key indicator of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It presents diverse features and rich connotations in the transformation towards modernization. However, for a long time i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
932 Views
17 Pages

14 April 2025

Land transfer is a crucial measure for optimizing cropland allocation and improving production efficiency, especially in resource-scarce countries. Drawing on a sample of 858 farmers from Sichuan Province, China, this study examines whether agricultu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
3,957 Views
19 Pages

25 February 2023

Achieving the goals of global food security and sustainable agricultural land use requires research that understands the processes and mechanisms of change in agricultural land systems. Agricultural land function is a suitable research area. Therefor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,668 Views
25 Pages

4 December 2020

This study was aimed at optimizing the weighted linear combination method (WLC) for agricultural land suitability evaluation (ALSE) through indicator selection, weight determination, and classification of overall suitability scores in Handan, China....

  • Article
  • Open Access
179 Citations
12,859 Views
25 Pages

Marginal Agricultural Land Low-Input Systems for Biomass Production

  • Moritz Von Cossel,
  • Iris Lewandowski,
  • Berien Elbersen,
  • Igor Staritsky,
  • Michiel Van Eupen,
  • Yasir Iqbal,
  • Stefan Mantel,
  • Danilo Scordia,
  • Giorgio Testa and
  • Salvatore Luciano Cosentino
  • + 18 authors

14 August 2019

This study deals with approaches for a social-ecological friendly European bioeconomy based on biomass from industrial crops cultivated on marginal agricultural land. The selected crops to be investigated are: Biomass sorghum, camelina, cardoon, cast...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,496 Views
25 Pages

Environmental Impact of Agricultural Land Transfer in China: A Systematic Review on Sustainability

  • Meseret C. Abate,
  • Zhen He,
  • Baozhong Cai,
  • Yuangji Huang,
  • Geremew Betelhemabraham,
  • Tesfaye Bayu and
  • Amsalu K. Addis

30 July 2024

Farmland holding fragmentation facilitates more extensive use of agricultural chemicals, which harm the natural environment. Agricultural land transfer in China aims to consolidate agricultural holdings, promoting economies of scale and addressing so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,909 Views
16 Pages

Access to Land for Agricultural Entrepreneurial Activities in the Context of Sustainable Food Production in Borgou, according to Land Law in Benin

  • Bienvenu Dagoudo Akowedaho,
  • Inoussa Guinin Asso,
  • Bruno Charles Pierre O’heix,
  • Soulé Akinhola Adéchian and
  • Mohamed Nasser Baco

23 August 2022

Access to land is crucial for food systems to address the challenges caused by habitat and biodiversity loss, land and water degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable food production requires land security upstream for agricultural produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,601 Views
16 Pages

26 December 2014

The aim of this paper is to give an overview and analyze the contemporary land tenure relations in Russia in view of their influences on economic viability of agricultural production. The paper investigates progress made toward the development of agr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,617 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Agricultural Programmes and Land Ownership on the Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Nigeria

  • Ireti Emmanuel Adesida,
  • William Nkomoki,
  • Miroslava Bavorova and
  • Mustapha Yakubu Madaki

29 June 2021

Many countries promote food security through agricultural policies to boost agricultural productivity without looking at the effect of such policies on sustainability. This study investigates the effect of agricultural policies and land ownership on...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,453 Views
13 Pages

1 October 2018

One of the major land use and land cover changes in Europe is agricultural land abandonment (ALA) that particularly affects marginal mountain areas. Accurate mapping of ALA patterns and timing is important for understanding its determinants and the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
19,260 Views
27 Pages

Resilience with Mixed Agricultural and Urban Land Uses in Tokyo, Japan

  • Giles Bruno Sioen,
  • Toru Terada,
  • Makiko Sekiyama and
  • Makoto Yokohari

7 February 2018

Urban agriculture can enhance the resilience of neighborhoods by providing fresh food in times of natural disasters; however, there is little empirical evidence to support this. Therefore, this study proposes a methodology to identify patterns of agr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,699 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2019

Agriculture is the mainstay of Pakistan’s economy. However, it has been noticed that farmers are increasingly giving up agriculture in favor of non-agricultural activities. This study was conducted in the Khairpur district of Sindh province, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,146 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2022

At the global level, there is an awareness of the need to protect agricultural land from permanent physical loss through land-use change. Preservation of high-quality agricultural land is currently at the center of the international debates, includin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
14,160 Views
16 Pages

Urban Expansion and Agricultural Land Loss in China: A Multiscale Perspective

  • Kaifang Shi,
  • Yun Chen,
  • Bailang Yu,
  • Tingbao Xu,
  • Linyi Li,
  • Chang Huang,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Zuoqi Chen and
  • Jianping Wu

11 August 2016

China’s rapid urbanization has contributed to a massive agricultural land loss that could threaten its food security. Timely and accurate mapping of urban expansion and urbanization-related agricultural land loss can provide viable measures to be tak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,950 Views
18 Pages

Waqf: An Advanced Approach to Combating Agricultural Land Fragmentation in Islamic Countries

  • Alaa Al-Tulaibawi,
  • Pablo de Frutos Madrazo and
  • Pedro Antonio Martín-Cervantes

13 December 2024

This paper addresses the issue of agricultural land fragmentation in Islamic countries. In the se countries, agricultural land is fragmented into tiny and unproductive holdings. Fragmentation of agricultural holdings reduces production due to difficu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,483 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2021

Agricultural land abandonment is a process observed in most European countries. In Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, it was initiated with the political transformation of the 1990s. Currently, in Poland, it concerns over 2 mil...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
662 Views
18 Pages

Farming on the Edge: The 10-Fold Deficit in Lombardy’s Agricultural Land

  • Stefano Salata,
  • Andrea Arcidiacono,
  • Stefano Corsi,
  • Chiara Mazzocchi,
  • Alberto Fedalto and
  • Domenico Riccobene

23 October 2025

Lombardy is Italy’s leading region in primary agricultural production, yet it faces a significant decline in agricultural soil, primarily due to urban expansion. This land consumption largely affects arable areas, as land is repurposed for low-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,985 Views
16 Pages

30 September 2024

This work aims at presenting a review of the literature on agricultural land valuation, highlighting the elements of real estate valuation and the factors that determine the price of an agricultural land in the province of Huambo in Angola. A quantit...

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