Essays about: "land fragmentation and productivity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words land fragmentation and productivity.

  1. 1. Mapping Connectivity in the Swedish Agricultural Landscape

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande

    Author : William Franzén; [2020]
    Keywords : ; GIS; Circuitscape; Structural Connectivity; Agriculture; Landscape; Perennialization; Land use;

    Abstract : The changes that Swedish agriculture has undergone during the 20th century has resulted in strongly increased productivity, but at the cost of more intensive environmental impacts. One of these is loss of biodiversity, which is driven by, e.g., usage of pesticides and loss and fragmentation of habitats. READ MORE

  3. 2. The contribution of Land Use Consolidation policy to food and nutrition security of women farmers : a case study of the farmers involved in potato farming, food availability in Nyabihu district, Rwanda

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Odette Mutangiza; [2019]
    Keywords : Land Use Consolidation; Food and Nutrition Security; Institution; women farmers; potato; Nyabihu; Rwanda;

    Abstract : The overgrowing population in Rwanda and the persistent fragmentation of households’ plots induced the land use designs to be restructured. The Government of Rwanda introduced the Land Use Consolidation (LUC) policy to manage land fragmentation, and shift from subsistence to a market oriented agriculture. READ MORE

  4. 3. Vad påverkar marknadsvärdet på en skogsfastighet? : en statistisk analys av markvärdet

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Products

    Author : Johanna Högberg; [2012]
    Keywords : marknadsvärde; markvärde; hedonisk prismodell; regressionsmodell; implicita priser; fastighetsvärdering; market value; land value; hedonic pricing model; regression analysis; estimating of forest estates;

    Abstract : Skogen har sedan årtusenden tillbaka nyttjats av människan för sitt leverne. Allteftersom möjligheten att äga egen skog och att skogens ekonomiska betydelse har ökat har värderingen av skog förändrats. READ MORE

  5. 4. The causes of tenure security in rural China and its effect on investments

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Adam Bleser; [2011]
    Keywords : Land rights; tenure security; institutional economics; agricultural economics; China; Hebei; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the causes and effects of tenure security in rural China. Using original survey data gathered in Hebei province in the summer of 2009, it begins by assessing the causes of tenure security among China’s rural landholders. READ MORE

  6. 5. Assessment of the impact of highfragmented land upon theproductivity and profitability of thefarms : the case of the Macedonian vegetable growers

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Jordan Hristov; [2009]
    Keywords : Macedonia; land fragmentation; Simspon index; parcel size; vegetable production; land consolidation; future policy implications;

    Abstract : Land is an essential natural resource, both for the survival and prosperity of humanity, and forthe maintenance of all global ecosystems. Land fragmentation is the practice of farming anumber of spatially separated plots of owned or rented land by the same farmer and can beseen as common phenomenon in the Macedonian agriculture as well as in many developingcountries. READ MORE