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

More attentions should be focused on the changes in plot size of each household rather
than the size of farmland in the discussions of economic problem of land fragmentation in …

In the context of China's rapid economic development, numerous rural laborers go out to
work driven by economic interests. How to release the surplus rural labor effectively is …

Rising real wages create an incentive for relatively large landholders to increase their scale
of operations allowing them to mechanize and save labor (or to allow farmers to work more …

This paper deepens the economic analysis of the effects of land consolidation–reduction of
land fragmentation. It does this in the context of rural Vietnam, studying whether land …

Studies on the impacts of agricultural land consolidation have mostly used the household
plot number as a proxy. Instead, this study exploits the variation in household participation in …

This study uses resource‐based measures to explore the evolution of China's demand and
supply for food. China's dietary shift from plant to animal‐based foods, induced by its income …

Agricultural mechanization services (AMS) have emerged as a viable and effective solution
for helping farmers gain access to machinery equipment in developing countries. This study …

Agricultural land fragmentation has an important impact on ecosystem services, especially
food production. However, the relationship between land fragmentation and production …