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Land consolidation is a planned readjustment and rearrangement of land parcels and their ownership. It is usually applied to form larger and more rational land holdings. Land consolidation can be used to improve the rural infrastructure and to implement the developmental and environmental policies. The need to improve land management is obvious. Due to this, in this study special attention is paid to rural areas where land relations have profound implications for agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and the economic and social status of rural households. The recent and dramatic shift from a centrally planned to a market-based economy has emphasized the urgent need for the designing of an effective framework to promote a smooth and effective transition to agriculture land tenure relations consistent with market-oriented development.
