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Land consolidation works carried out in Poland are mainly aimed at the improvement of spatial structure of plots in agricultural holdings. However, modern trends indicate the necessity of compliance with sustainable rural development policy. This implicates the inevitability of inclusion of the environmental, landscape, technical and organizational aspects in the land consolidation projects in Poland. One such operation is the introduction of trees and shrubs. The paper aims to investigate the scope of land consolidation design solutions concerning the introduction of trees and shrubs. The study was based on selected land consolidation projects from different regions of Poland. The paper also proposes the concept of implementation of the design solutions related to the introduction of trees and shrubs in the land consolidation projects.

Land consolidation is considered as a tool for accomplishingthe goals of multifunctional rural development.However, the mechanisms of execution of the idea do not offera clear explanation. The aim of this paper is to assess thescope of implementation of the idea of multifunctional ruraldevelopment in land consolidation projects in Poland. Thispaper attempts to assess whether all elements of the conceptincluded in land consolidation procedures are dealt with ina sufficient manner. The analyses were based on the exampleof 15 selected land consolidation projects carried out indisparate regions of Poland. This paper presents the analysesof design solutions concerning three major aspects: the improvementof efficiency of farming, the preservation of theenvironment and the landscape, the social influence of landconsolidation. According to the results of the studies, for allanalyzed objects, satisfactory economic results were obtainedwhich indirectly influence the social effects. However, environmentaland landscape solutions were only partially considered.The studies have shown, that in Poland it seems necessaryto create appropriate organizational and administrativestructures in order to generate a tool for implementation of themultifunctional rural development idea within the process ofland consolidation.

Abstract:A large percentage of rural areas in Poland require deep structural changes. Such lands (in particular, areas in southern and southeastern Poland) are characterized by the excessive fragmentation of land owned by individual farmers, a disadvantageous expanse of lands, and the poor condition of the technical and institutional infrastructures (or a lack thereof). Disadvantageous demographic processes (such as the migration of inhabitants from villages to cities and aging of the local population) also occur in those areas. It is possible to improve the current conditions through the eff ective implementation of rural-area development programs, such as the implementation of land-consolidation works. The objective of this work is to assess the spatial eff ects of land-consolidation works carried out in Poland. The research was based on a representative sample of 38 study objects located in diff erent parts of Poland. For the assumed study objects, changes of the basic parameters that characterize the spatial structure of the lands were examined. These resulted from the performed land-consolidation process: the coeffi cient of the decrease in the total number of parcels and the coeffi cient of the increase in the size of the average plot for the examined objects.