Since their widespread introduction in the 1980s, large-scale tree plantations have seen
contestations over their socio-economic impacts. With the establishment of new plantations …

Land consolidation (LC) is a widespread form of rural planning and is often presented as an
important tool for mitigating land degradation. We therefore decided to make a systematic …

Land consolidation has multi-functionality. Most of the existing researches focus on the
supplementary function of cultivated land, but lack of systematic research on its function of …

Regional impoverishment is an external manifestation of unbalanced human-land
relationship in specific areas. The important role of the full utilization of land resources in …

Rural issues, such as land fragmentation, eco-environment destruction, industrial lag and
rural hollowing, can be seen as the external manifestation of the imbalance between the …

Farmland fragmentation can be influenced by factors that operate at different scales. It is not
only a spatial boundary pattern of farmland use and management rights shaped by macro …

Land consolidation (LC), as an effective instrument to relieve rural land issues and promote
rural sustainability, has already attracted the attention of the Chinese government and …

CONTEXT Crop diversification has been proposed as a promising strategy for transitioning
towards sustainable agricultural systems by leveraging biological processes and controls …

Land consolidation activities have generally failed in the Sub-Saharan African region for
various reasons. However, there has been a new wave of land consolidation activities in the …

Theoretically, both land fragmentation and consolidation (defragmentation) approaches are
considered as tools of land management. However, although a large literature about the …