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This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land-use, drawing on an array of global case studies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and agriculture, land-use and land management, rural studies and sustainable development.
List of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
SECTION I Structural transformation of agricultural land1.1 Jerzy Bäski,
Contemporary processes of transformation of the agricultural land use in Central Europe1.2. József Lennert, Jen¿ Zsolt Farkas,
Agricultural Transformation in Hungary: Trends and Challenges Since 19901.3. Simon Measho Yhdego,
Structural transitions of agricultural land use across Northeast Africa during 2001-20201.4. Francisco M.P. Mugizi,
Land fragmentation and agricultural productivity in Tanzania1.5. Shiqi Wang, Zhi Cao, Yizhu Ruan,
Structural transitions of agricultural land-use in China after 19781.6. Chandra Kala Magar, Dhanjit Deka, Bimal Kumar Kar,
Growth of Tea Plantations and Its Impact on Agricultural Land-use in Assam (India)SECTION II Environmental and social challenges in agricultural land use2.1. Guy M. Robinson, Bingjie Song,
Agriculture's response to diverse environmental and other challenges in the driest state in the driest continent2.2. Daniellé A. du Plooy, Sean Connelly
, Shaping Agriculture and Agri-Food System Futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: The Role of Values and Relationships with Land and Self2.3. Milada Š¿astná, Antonín Vaishar,
Recent Changes of Land Use in Southern Moravia's Lowland and Highland Regions2.4. Daniela Ribeiro, Matej Gabrovec,
Transformation of cultural landscapes: case studies from Slovenia2.5. Sivapuram Venkata Rama Krishna Prabhakar
, Agricultural land use and its climate change vulnerability in Asia: Moving from vulnerability to resilience2.6. Tayeb Addoun,
Dynamic of agriculture and sustainability the Oasis ecosystem: The Case of Mansoura (Algerian Sahara)SECTION III Farm land in planning and policy3.1. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Chima Iheaturu, Frank Mintah, Ingrid Kjelsen, Robin Hartmann, Juri Fitz, Paule Pamela Tabi Eckebil, Georges A. Agonvonon, Giulia F. Curatola Fernández, Vladimir R. Wingate, David Ellison, Samuel Hepner, Felicia O. Akinyemi,
Targeting agricultural land expansion across Africa: Pathways through effective land governance, nature protection and intensification3.2. Laudelina Alves Ribeiro, Uelson Serra Garcia, Jefferson Andronio Ramundo Staduto, Ana Cecília Kreter,
Development Policy and Its Influence on Land Use: A Study of Institutional Markets in Maranhão, Brazil3.3. Gregory Veeck,
Rapid increases in arable land values, and long-term implications to the farm sector and rural economy of the United States: 2000 - 20233.4. Zhao Qianyu, Liu Hao,
Urbanization and Agricultural Land Use Transformation in China: A Perspective of Off-farm Employment3.5. Ashley Gunter,
Transitioning Agricultural Land to Eco-Estates in Rural Gauteng: Farmers' Perceptions and Policy and Planning Implications3.6.Catherine Nakalembe, Diana B. Frimpong, Gordon Y. Mwesigwa,
Long-term Agricultural Land Use Change Analysis and Land Use Policy in Karamoja, Uganda, since 20003.7. Søren Bech Pilgaard Kristensen, Anne Gravsholt Busck, Michael Helt Knudsen,
Rural idyll or forgotten backwaters: What and who determines the transition of rural areas in Denmark? A case study from Central Jutland, Denmark
About the author
Jerzy Bäski is a Professor in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. From 2018-2021 he was the director of this Institute and from 2006-2012 he was the president of the Polish Geographical Society. He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns (Routledge, 2021) and Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development (Routledge, 2020).
