The Farmland Rental Paradox: Extreme land ownership fragmentation as a new form of land degradation |
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| Institution: | 1. AgroParisTech, UMR 1048 SAD-APT, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France;2. INRA, UMR 1048 SAD-APT, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France;3. Unité Agriterr – Lecor ESITPA, 3, rue du Tronquet, CS 40118, F-76134 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France;4. INRA, UR 1303 ALISS, F-94205 Ivry-sur-Seine, France;1. Department of Economics, University of Oviedo, Campus del Cristo, 33420 Oviedo, Spain;2. Department of Accounting, University of Oviedo, Campus del Cristo, 33420 Oviedo, Spain;1. Department of Agricultural Land Surveying, Cadastre and Photogrammetry, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland;2. Konya Technical University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Konya, Turkey;1. Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS, Akademická 2, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia;2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;3. Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS, Stefánikova 3, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovakia;4. Department of Theoretical Geodesy, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 11, 813 68 Bratislava, Slovakia;5. Soil Science and Censervation Research Institute, Gagarinova 10, 827 13 Bratislava, Slovakia;1. Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede 7500AE, the Netherlands;2. Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, 3122, Australia;1. School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;2. China Institute for Rural Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;3. Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore |
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| Abstract: | Extreme farmland ownership fragmentation is becoming a limiting factor for sustainable land management in some countries. Scattered, excessively small parcels cease to be viable for individual farming, and owners feel forced to rent these parcels to larger enterprises farming on adjacent land. Our study demonstrates a phenomenon that we call the Farmland Rental Paradox, where very small parcels tend to create large production blocks by being rented to larger farmers, and therefore to significantly homogenize the land-use pattern. The parcel size established as the threshold for this phenomenon is 1.07 ha. Below this threshold, the smaller the parcels were, the larger the blocks that they tended to create.Using the example of the Czech Republic, a state with extremely high farmland ownership fragmentation, it is demonstrated that this phenomenon can currently determine the land use of up to 40% of the country's farmland. Our study also points to other countries where this phenomenon may apply, especially the transitional countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The study discusses the tempo of the fragmentation process, which accelerates exponentially in countries with the equal inheritance system. It goes on to discuss defragmentation, social impacts of the dominance of the land rental market, and environmental impacts of significant homogenization of the land-use pattern. The serious negative impacts of extreme land-ownership fragmentation show that this phenomenon can be considered as a significant form of land degradation. |
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| Keywords: | Sustainable land use Land ownership fragmentation Cadastral parcel Production block LPIS Land market |
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