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

Increased demand for fertile lands has resulted from the exponential growth of the world's
population in the twenty-first century. This mechanism results in widespread land tenure …

Cultivated land fragmentation (CLF) is a complex result of the interaction between resource
endowments and human activities in rural areas. Scientifically revealing the evolution of CLF …

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 …

Existing studies have primarily examined the impact of farmland fragmentation on
agricultural production from the perspective of crop yield per unit of land. However, they …

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 …

Farmland fragmentation and farmland consolidation are two sides of the same coin
paradoxically viewed as farmland management tools. While there is a vast body of literature …

Land consolidation, as a sustainability-oriented policy design, has been implemented
worldwide for promoting agricultural production and rural development. Although there has …

Agricultural land use is a complicated systems engineering. Modern agriculture faces
increasingly more risks. Managers should obtain reliable information to assist in decision …

Abstract Rural households in Burkina Faso face serious problems of food security due to
very low agricultural productivity. Our study investigates how the existing land property rights …