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Poorer Regions Consume More Undeveloped but Less High-Quality Land Than Wealthier Regions—A Case Study

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2023
Czech Republic
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Food Security
land policies
Despite the efforts of developed countries to protect undeveloped land, development continues to expand beyond urban boundaries. High-quality land needed for food production is often consumed. This study aims to verify possible causes of undeveloped land and high-quality land consumption within regions (NUTS3) using a new approach to building growth monitoring. It investigates residential (RBs) and commercial buildings (retail and industrial buildings, RIBs). The development between 2006 and 2016 in the Czech Republic, a country in Central Europe, is used as a case study.
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European Land Use Spatial Data Sources and Their Role in Integrated Planning: Opportunities and Challenges for Poland

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Netherlands, Poland
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land law
One of the 34 themes of the spatial datasets of Directive 2007/2/EC INSPIRE is ‘land use’, rightly described independently of ‘land cover’. Laws in most countries, apart from the Netherlands, do not consider the electronic form of plans as a legally binding document. As far as the elaboration step and the adoption step are concerned, the main land use requirement is related to the datasets that describe existing land use at present and in the past. Surveys and case studies concern Poland and were carried out in two stages, I in 2011–2013 and II in 2017–2019.
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Macroeconomic Perspective on Urban Sprawl: A Multidimensional Approach in Poland

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Poland, United States of America
land policies
poverty
sustainable development
There are important relationships between the urban sprawl process and economic growth. They are usually expressed through spatial relations and changes taking place in the local, regional and national economy. The temporal and spatial dimension, including dispersed location, are the determinants of development and economic growth. Therefore, the urban sprawl phenomenon and the related location, hypothetically conditioning economic growth, should be subject to macroeconomic research. The article examines how urban sprawl affects the national budget and national economic growth.
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German Farmers’ Perspectives on Price Drivers in Agricultural Land Rental Markets—A Combination of a Systematic Literature Review and Survey Results

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Ukraine
agricultural and rural legislation
farmers
land rent
Despite the popularity of agricultural land markets as a research topic, a current literature review on price drivers on agricultural land rental markets is missing, which is crucial in order to gain an overview of the status quo. Furthermore, farmers’ perceptions of price drivers on agricultural land rental markets have not been considered sufficiently. Therefore, this study combines descriptive results from a survey with 156 German farmers conducted during 2019–2020 using purposive sampling and a systematic literature review.
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Similarities and dissimilarities between the EU agricultural and rural development model and Romanian agriculture. Challenges and perspectives

Land Use Policy Volume 44

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2015
Romania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
development
land policies
land use
research
rural development
The main aims of this study are to highlight the differences and the similarities between the European model of agricultural and rural development, and the state of play in the Romanian agricultural sector. Statistically speaking, the agricultural sector's indicators of the past two decades place Romania outside the family picture of the EU countries, with very slight resemblances, and very strong discrepancies between their economic, technical, and institutional characteristics.
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The EU’s ecological focus areas – How experts explain farmers’ choices in Germany

Land Use Policy Volume 65

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2017
Germany, Ukraine
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land policies
land use
research
Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) have recently been introduced as key element in the greening of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. In 2015, farmers across the EU have implemented EFAs for the first time. Data for German federal states indicate a strong variance in EFA decisions with an overall dominance of catch crops, nitrogen fixing crops and fallow land – two of which bear limited benefits for biodiversity conservation. This article explores how experts explain EFA choices.
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Territorial differences in agricultural investments co-financed by the European Union in Poland

Land Use Policy Volume 100

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Poland
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agrarian structure
land use
research
This paper identifies the relationship between an active use of EU investment support programs by Polish farmers, on one side, and the local conditions for socioeconomic development and natural and structural characteristics of agriculture, on the other. The research was illustrated by the example of Poland, a country with a remarkably fragmented and territorially heterogeneous agrarian structure.
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Lessons from development strategies: socio-economic impacts of land policy in the Republic of Moldova

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Moldova
land policies
In this paper, the author considers the impacts of land reform on privatization and ownership structure of agricultural land, as well as on agricultural and rural developments. The analysis is based on official statistical sources, data and results of several questionnaire-based surveys. The main idea of the paper – it is necessary to flow the land from large corporate farms to small family farms, until equilibrium will not be created between those two farm sectors, as is commonly observed in market economies.
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Dimensiunea teritorială a exploataţiilor agricole în contextul economiei dezvoltării

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Moldova
land policies
Experience in many countries demonstrates that without a clear land policy, it will be difficult or impossible to reduce deep-rooted structural poverty and inequality. The objective of the paper is to investigate the size of family farms in Moldova and other countries in the context of the development economics. In this context, the major factors that determine the farm size are analyzed: placement, inequality of income, average area per 1 inhabitant, and GDP per 1 inhabitant.
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FAO recommendations on land consolidation legislation

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2019
Eastern Europe, Western Europe
Land & Food Security
VGGT
agricultural and rural legislation
land policies
land consolidation
Most countries in Western Europe have a long tradition for implementing land consolidation projects. In Central and Eastern Europe, land reforms from 1990 on in most countries resulted in farm structures characterized by excessive land fragmentation and small average farm sizes. Most CEE countries have introduced land consolidation instruments to address the structural problems. FAO has from 2000 on supported land consolidation in the region.