Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional

This article explores gender and intergenerational farm succession, with a particular focus on the Australian context. We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of extant research in gender and farm succession patterns internationally, coupled with a systematic sampling of legal databases to see how farm succession has been addressed in the Australian legal system. From the SLR, we established

Driven by high value-added benefits as well as the less mature legal systems, informal land transfer becomes widespread in rural China. Based on Institutional Vicissitude Theory, this paper investigates the responses of local stakeholders to the process of informal rural land transfer. Case studies undertaken at Hubei province in China reveal the conflicts in informal land transfer. The article firstly

The task of land consolidation projects is to bring scattered and degraded parcels to the appropriate parcel shape and size for agricultural management. Thus, direct access to each parcel road and irrigation system can be achieved. Thus, land operating costs are reduced in areas where land consolidation is applied. The present study aimed to determine the changes in input costs before and after land

Urbanization leads to significant changes in land-use types and affects various ecosystem services. While previous studies have analyzed the interaction between urbanization and ecosystem services at the national, provincial, and city scales, there is insufficient information on the spatial interaction between urbanization and ecosystem services in urban agglomerations for different development levels

According to the Brazilian National Water Resources Policy, water is a limited public good, and its management involves the participation of public authorities, users, and communities. This paper analyzes data on groundwater concession and uses in five Brazilian municipalities, located in the northeastern region of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin. Data were analyzed to associate aquifer systems and

The aim of the study is to present residents’ views on the perceived risks and acceptance of the maintenance and development of professional Urban Farming (UF) in selected Polish metropolitan areas. Attention was mainly devoted to exploring factors in the acceptance of UF, including the importance of perceived risks associated with urban farming, physical and social distance and the socio-economic

The study examines the farmers' satisfaction and happiness after the land sale for urban expansion of Gurugram, Haryana, India, under the "Development Plan 2031AD for Gurgaon-Manesar Urban Complex". Data was collected through a self-administrated survey questionnaire from 177 male farmers (168 valid) of sixteen villages whose land has been acquired or sold for urban expansion using convenience-cum-judgmental

Climate change and its impact on the agricultural sector in developing economies is a matter of considerable academic and political debate. This paper examines the impact of climate change and variability on Sri Lankan agriculture and identifies the potential adaptation practices and their impacts on rice productivity. More specifically, this study investigates how farming households’ decisions to

This paper conducts a systematic accounting on the use of China’s pastureland in the world economy by using systems embodiment analysis. This study is in direct association with a pioneering paper “Embodied pasture land use change in China 2000–2015: from the perspective of globalization” (Guo et al., 2019). Both the previous and the present work explore China’s case of pastureland use from an embodiment

More waste dumps are urgently needed to better cope with the surge of urban garbage and alleviate the ecological pressure on existing dumps. However, such dumps have environmental externalities. Housing transaction data and waste treatment plant data in Beijing from 2015 to 2018 were combined in this study for use in the hedonic price model to evaluate these externalities. We focus on the effects of

This paper assesses the static and dynamic neutrality of Land Value Capture (LVC) in the Colombian urban system 2003–2018, using spatially and non-spatially controlled panel models. LVC analyses are usually performed at the city or metropolitan area level, we contribute by performing the assessment on an urban system comprising 18 metropolitan areas. Our assessment builds upon a theoretical structure

This viewpoint examines citizen empowerment by gardening in times of crisis, namely, the adoption of the idea of Victory Gardens as a means of resistance to COVID-19. Fear of the collapse of the Canadian food chain supply at the beginning of the pandemic led to an increase in urban gardening. The government-created Victory Garden program of the Second World War urged citizens to contribute to the war

Blended finance offers a way of increasing total expenditure on tackling the twin climate and biodiversity global emergencies. However, this requires effective methods for combining private and public funding. As an example of the barriers and opportunities facing practical implementation of a blended finance approach, this Viewpoint paper presents a case-study of the UK Peatland Code which will have

The change of cultivated land pattern (CLP) has a significant impact on cultivated land system security (CLSS), and is the foundation of ensuring adequate provision of cultivated land, and the premise of achieving sustainable development of the society. While there is a lack of research on the CLP optimization with the goal of achieving CLSS, particularly lacking research that taking the main grain

Individual land titling will not deliver land tenure security to the majority of people by 2030. Nevertheless, tenure security is implicit to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and deep-rooted in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Land tenure security underpins the SDGs related to poverty reduction, food security, disaster risk management and gender equality. The cross-cutting benefits

Climate change is expected to adversely impact crop productivity and forest stocks of the planet, which will pose food security challenges and complicate carbon mitigation goals. This paper asks in what ways warming temperatures may affect the ability of REDD+ programs to sequester carbon and support rural livelihoods. An example from the forest-rich central Himalayan region of India is used for modeling

Chinese decentralisation, characterised by the fiscal decentralisation and political centralisation relationship between the central government and local governments, has provided significant dual incentives (financial incentives and political incentives) on the land use behaviour of local governments. However, traditional incentive theory ignores the impact of the constraint indicators set by the

Agricultural land conversion (ALC) and agricultural land abandonment (ALA) have a direct relationship with different economic, social, and environmental issues. The change in land management and land use, in addition to economic and social effects, has a major impact on the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil, quantity and quality of water resources, and air quality. Therefore, this

Literature suggests that the spatial concentration of violence can contribute to destabilizing property relations. In this context, there is an underexplored area related to the study of the relationship between specific forms of violence (homicide) and dispossession – defined as the criminal intent of taking property through violence and force. This study seeks to fill this gap by testing the violence/property

In 2016, the Fitness Check of the EU Birds and Habitats Directives concluded that, in order to reach their most important objectives, the implementation of both directives needed to be improved. This paper analyses the institutional changes that characterise the implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives in the Netherlands. These institutional changes include revisions of the rules embedded

Mangroves around the world provide humanity with a variety of ecosystem services. However, rising populations coupled with human activities jeopardize the sustainable management of these ecosystems. Climate change is also expected to have a severe impact on mangrove ecosystems, especially in Benin, West Africa. Since 2000, several initiatives for the conservation of mangroves have been established

Higher land-use intensity can be achieved by subdividing the land or by subdividing the structure built on it. The former avoids co-ownership but is subject to topographical constraints, whereas the latter (e.g. apartment units) uses each unit of land more efficiently but entails management of the common parts. This study examines a hybrid approach to subdivision, known as “cross-lease” in New Zealand

Sustainability of Brazilian agriculture has been frequently addressed in debates about human influences on the environment. Sustainability of agricultural production is critical to meet the growing demand for food, fiber and energy, and involves economic and environmental components of agriculture. We tested the hypothesis that conservation agriculture (CA) contributes to sustainability of Brazilian

The regeneration of old residential areas in China is facing a complex trap involving all kinds of stakeholders. On the one hand, ambiguous property rights, huge infrastructure investment arrears, and strict urban planning regulations make it challenging for market forces and social capital to enter the field of regeneration of old residential areas. On the other hand, the lack of an effective urban

Expert opinion can be a valuable tool for informed decision making. Concerning wildfire susceptibility reduction at the landscape scale, forest ecosystem experts play a key role in offering advice about appropriate fuel management practices to be applied by forest owners or their organizations, and in shaping public policies. A literature review aimed at identifying fuel management interventions and

Although offsetting schemes may avoid biodiversity loss, the implementation of these schemes can be challenging, given the difficulty of balancing biodiversity benefits with the resulting increase in compensation costs. Here we have developed a novel offsetting methodological approach to balance environmental gains and land availability to support the decision-making process and negotiations among

Cotton producers in Pakistan must manage many concerns, for example, climate change, traditional agricultural management practices and depletion of land resources i.e. land, and water have resulted in low productivity and pose the largest challenge ever to the sustainability of cotton production in Pakistan. Sustainable land and water (SL&W) management practices of climate resilient agriculture (CRA)

Concepts of accessibility planning are widely adoptedworldwide in city planning policies for better access to various urban amenities. In urban areas, spatial accessibility to services has received attention in developed countries. However, accessibility planning studies in developing countries are still in nascent stages. This paper presents a set of identified indicators for measuring accessibility

In this study, we identified the spatial property tax mimicking phenomenon at the local government level in Poland. The database used in the research contained data characterizing each of the 2479 municipalities (all of the municipalities in Poland) in terms of their real estate tax revenues and the effects of reducing the upper tax rates between 2003 and 2017. Spatial autocorrelation and spatial regression

Spatial planning has been globally developed as a policy tool to govern built-up land expansion. However, causal evidence of the effect of spatial planning on built-up land expansion is limited, which raises doubts on the credibility of spatial planning and hinders theoretical developments in land-system science. We evaluated the effect of the Major Function Oriented Zone (MFOZ), the first strategic

Urban areas represent the central point of sustainability initiatives which drive significant changes in cities’ planning, design and management. Given that urban areas are subject to continuous change, efficient and integrated planning and policy strategies are needed to address their complex challenges. This is why the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) plays an essential role in urban planning

As a populous country, China has always attached importance to the protection of cultivated land and food security. However, in the process of promoting rural development, agricultural industrial policies introduced by local governments may affect the realization of food security. Although there are many studies paying attention to the influence of agricultural industrial policy on food security, quantitative

Since 1950, the Amazonian and Brazilian transportation complex has prioritized the model of road transport. This model does not adequately consider the singularities of each site, especially the potential for waterway transport in the Amazon. This fact probably contributed to the unsustainable local development, even though it implemented various large projects of integration, hydroelectric, mineral

Urban greening is a tool of urban planning to mediate problems related to urban living and betterment of residents’ quality of life. Given the inequitable distribution of this urban public health infrastructure, increasing green area within disadvantaged neighborhoods is one of the contemporary initiatives in urban planning. However, some argue that urban greening can have mixed consequences. Specifically

Ecuador constitutes a fascinating case study to explore land policies and reforms. Since colonial times, it has experienced prolonged and ongoing struggles to transform land institutions. This paper investigates how, across levels, historic institutional factors affected land-use decision making in the Mindo parish and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador, as perceived by its landowners. Following

Natural resources are increasingly lauded as antidotes to the current social and ecological crises. In this context, a global land and natural resource rush for business, development and climate and environmental stewardship purposes has been at work since the mid-2000s. This paper discusses whether, how, and the extent to which the resource rush behind mainstream climate stewardship and sustainability

The impending close to the war in Syria brings to the fore the prospect of approximately 13 million forcibly displaced people considering returns to places of origin in the country. However the reattachment of people to their housing, land and property (HLP) faces a daunting set of challenges—the prospect of demographic change, the application of expropriation laws, confiscations and political agendas

This paper seeks to critically analyze the extent to which the Botswana Land Policy that was approved by the National Assembly in 2019 addresses challenges and opportunities identified during preliminary studies and stakeholder consultations. The paper notes that while matters pertaining to equal access to land and land registration were adequately dealt with, issues pertaining to land markets and

In recent years, urban gardens have received increased interest from urban citizens as well as urban planners as a tool to promote sustainable urban development. The increased demand by citizens and planners for different forms of garden areas, however, is at odds with a densifying city and the loss of green spaces. Urban planners are therefore faced with the challenge of rethinking the functions and

Rapid urbanization and industrialization in South Korea have led to less available farmland. The recent rapid aging of the rural population (i.e., farmers) has also resulted in the disuse of arable farmland and increased farmland abandonment in South Korea. This abandoned farmland has caused farmland malfunction and desolation and damaged the landscape. The objective of this study is to evaluate the

Brazil faces its greatest period of environmental setback, where “ruralists” (large landholders and their representatives) gain access to government land in the Amazon. New roads are being paved, such as Highway BR-319 connecting Porto Velho in Brazil’s notorious “arc of deforestation” to Manaus in relatively intact central Amazônia. This highway acts as a spearhead penetrating one of the Amazon’s

Bioeconomy development has become one of the new trends in policy design and research. This study looks at biotic resource extraction in the Baltic Sea region countries providing detailed country by country analyses of factors affecting changes in resource extraction. The study is based on the index decomposition analysis including factors related to bioeconomy strategies such as the population, share

Silva et al. (Land Use Policy, 21 July 2020) offer an assessment of the links between deforestation, livestock production and exports in Brazil. Their analysis, based on relative changes in beef production and pasture area across the whole of Brazil, showed an “apparent decoupling of the link between beef production and deforestation in Brazil”. In reanalysing these links, we find that Silva et al

Understanding land buyer perceptions of engaging in rural land transactions is crucial towards institutional land reform, policymaking, and academia. Buyer perception is mostly determined by a goal in which maximising profits is central, either by increasing revenues or by decreasing costs. Since revenues are often overestimated, costs appear more relevant. Buyers were often argued positive about purchasing

Derived from a wider study of place-based economic, social, cultural and environmental regeneration initiatives in small regional New Zealand towns, and reflecting on international research that emphasises the importance of long-term collaborative effort, effective governance and locally-based leadership in regional regeneration, this paper examines the ways locally-based benevolent property development

The increasing policy interest in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has stimulated an interesting debate in the research community. Although there are numerous studies focusing on this issue, in literature little attention has been devoted to the impact of the initiative on the performances of Italian firms involved in agribusiness. In order to bridge this gap, this paper focuses on wine as a high-quality

Beginning in the 21st century, the world entered a stage of the rapid development of land urbanization. In general, land urbanization sacrifices ecosystem service value for economic value. Optimizing the spatial pattern of land urbanization is the best means of balancing economic development and ecosystem service value. Taking China as an example, through remote sensing and GIS methods, this paper

Despite the growing importance of the digital transformation (DT) of the agrifood sector on the political agenda, traditional policies are not enough to provide proactive responses to rapid technological changes and new approaches for policy planning are necessary especially at regional level. This manuscript proposes and illustrates the implementation of a new methodological framework for DT policy

While soil erosion and runoff physical processes and socio-environmental impacts are widely addressed in the literature, few studies have focused on the economical dimension. However, it is essential to consider this dimension to conduct appropriate land use management policies. Erosion and runoff are known to result into on-site and off-site impacts. A fully exhaustive analysis of erosion and runoff

The current literature links flood exposure and the consequent damage in the sub-Saharan Africa to urban expansion. The main implication of this pertains to the fact that cities are the target of flood risk reduction. However, our knowledge of the built-up area expansion–flood damage nexus is still too scarce to support any risk reduction policy at the local scale. The objective of this study is to

Land fragmentation is a primary cause of low agricultural profitability in many regions of the world. Adverse fragmentation parameters can be improved with land consolidation projects. Such projects are undertaken in areas characterised by different initial parameters of land fragmentation, types of agriculture, sociocultural conditions, and legislation that provides the framework for their formal

In places where state has been historically the most dominant actor of all reforms, it can be particularly challenging to develop non-state forms of organization and governance such as agricultural cooperatives known to reduce transaction costs and utilize economies of scale. This paper explores the latest state policy on the development of agricultural cooperatives in Uzbekistan through the prism

This article develops a hedonic difference-in-difference model for the potential impact of on-shore wind turbines on the property prices of two residential housing markets in Flanders, Belgium. The proposed empirical framework acknowledges the possibility of anticipation and time effects. The hedonic model is estimated using a property transaction data set ranging from 2004 to 2017 for the East and

The diffusion of agroforestry systems is among the priority actions to reduce carbon emissions in Brazil. However, the economic impacts of agroforestry are still poorly understood. We evaluate the impacts of the diffusion of agroforestry systems on the cattle herd and the total value of agricultural production in Brazil. We use panel data models with municipal-level information from the Agricultural

Ecosystem services valuation is not new, but few approaches have been developed to support ecosystem service consideration at the strategic level of futures-based planning. This paper demonstrates a practical, strategic environmental assessment approach to incorporate the valuation of ecosystem services in a futures-based assessment to support land use planning decisions for urban ecological areas

The study aims to assess land complaints and determine the extent of urbanization’s impact on land complaints and propose some solutions to resolve land complaints in Vinh city. Secondary data were collected in Vinh city. Primary data was collected through a 2-step survey of 100 staff members. The data were analyzed and evaluated by using SPSS20.0 software. There were 20 factors belonging to 6 groups