This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land-use, drawing on an array of global case studies.
This volume examines agricultural land-use through a three pronged approach: structural transformations, environmental challenges and planning and policy. Reflecting the global relevance of contemporary challenges to agricultural land-use, the book presents a wide-range of novel case studies from across the world, including Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Slovenia, Czechia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Algeria, North-East Africa countries, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, and Brazil. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue related to agricultural land use in that country or region, including land fragmentation, reduction of crop land, agricultural intensification, desertification of soils, climate change, biodiversity loss, traditional agricultural systems, urbanization and rural development, planning challenges for agricultural land. Together the chapters present a global view of the challenges facing the agricultural industry and offer solutions for developing sustainable agricultural practices to ensure food security and environmental and biodiversity conservation.
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.
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 contributors
Introduction to the book
SECTION I Structural transformation of agricultural land
1. Jerzy Baski, Contemporary processes of transformation of the agricultural
land use in Central Europe
2. József Lennert, Jen Zsolt Farkas, Agricultural Transformation in Hungary:
trends and challenges since 1990
3. Simon Measho Yhdego, Structural transitions of agricultural land use
across Northeast Africa during 2001-2020
4. Francisco M.P. Mugizi, Land fragmentation and agricultural productivity in
Tanzania
5. Shiqi Wang, Zhi Cao, Yizhu Ruan, Structural transitions of agricultural
land-use in China after 1978
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 use
7. Guy M. Robinson, Bingjie Song, Agriculture's response to diverse
environmental and other challenges in the driest state in the driest
continent
8. 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 self
9. Milada astnį, Antonķn Vaishar, Recent changes of land use in Southern
Moravia's lowland and highland regions
10. Daniela Ribeiro, Matej Gabrovec, Transformation of cultural landscapes:
case studies from Slovenia
11. Sivapuram Venkata Rama Krishna Prabhakar, Agricultural land use and its
climate change vulnerability in Asia: moving from vulnerability to
resilience
12. Tayeb Addoun, Dynamic of agriculture and sustainability of the oasis
ecosystem: the case of Mansoura (Algerian Sahara)
SECTION III Farm land in planning and policy
13. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Chima Iheaturu, Frank Mintah, Ingrid Kjelsen,
Robin Hartmann, Juri Fitz, Paule Pamela Tabi Eckebil, Georges A. Agonvonon,
Giulia F. Curatola Fernįndez, Vladimir R. Wingate, David Ellison, Samuel
Hepner, Felicia O. Akinyemi, Targeting agricultural land expansion across
Africa: pathways through effective nature protection, sustainable
intensification, and strengthening land governance
14. Laudelina Alves Ribeiro, Uelson Serra Garcia, Jefferson Andronio Ramundo
Staduto, Ana Cecķlia Kreter, Development policy and its influence on land
use: a study of institutional markets in Maranhćo, Brazil
15. Gregory Veeck, Rapid increases in arable land values, and long-term
implications to the farm sector and rural economy of the United States:
20002023
16. Zhao Qianyu, Liu Hao, Urbanization and agricultural land use
transformation in China: a perspective of off-farm employment
17. Ashley Gunter, Transitioning agricultural land to eco-estates in rural
Gauteng: farmers' perceptions and policy and planning implications
18.Catherine Nakalembe, Diana B. Frimpong, Gordon Y. Mwesigwa, Long-term
agricultural land use change analysis and land use policy in Karamoja,
Uganda, since 2000
19. Sųren 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
Jerzy Baski is Professor in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. From 2018 to 2021, he was the director of this institute and from 2006 to 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).
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