Fragmentation of landholdings is commonly regarded as a major obstacle to agricultural
production growth in China. This study analyses the factors contributing to land …

Land fragmentation is generally seen as an obstacle to agricultural productivity
improvements, but it can also facilitate labor smoothing and risk diversification. In this paper …

Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long
term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human …

Agricultural landholdings in China have an average size of only 0.53 hectares and are
divided over six different plots on average. This very high degree of land fragmentation is …

Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context
of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform: the …

Iran is one of the countries facing the most severe farmland fragmentation (FF) in rural areas
and farmland consolidation (FC) is generally regarded as being a suitable instrument to …

Land reform programs were high on the development agenda of many countries after World
War II and up to the early 1970s but have fallen out of favor since then. A major reason for …

PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES AND STRATEGIES FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES
A theoretical framework for understanding why some set Page 1 PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES …

The existence of fragmented landholdings has long been regarded as a characteristic
feature of less-developed agricultural systems (Blarel et al. 1992). It can be a major obstacle …

L and fragmentation is the practice of farming a number of spatially separated plots of owned
or rented land by the same farmer (McPherson 1982). It is a common phenomenon in many …