Agricultural impacts and profitability of land consolidations

Hiironen, Juhana; Riekkinen, Kirsikka

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.04.018

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“…Based on our results, a policy requirement that would most consistently benefit farmland birds is to retain the network of non-crop field boundaries across open farmland. This, however, is not addressed in the national agri-environment schemes, while enlargement of field parcels and replacement of open ditches with subsurface drains is an active agricultural policy target aiming at further modernisation of Finnish agriculture (Hiironen 2012).…”

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Weak effects of farming practices corresponding to agricultural greening measures on farmland bird diversity in boreal landscapes

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Context The current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union includes three greening measures, which are partly intended to benefit farmland biodiversity. However, the relative biodiversity effects of the greening measures, including joint effects of landscape context, are not well understood. Objectives We studied the effects of increasing crop diversity, proportions of production grasslands and fallows, corresponding to CAP greening measures, on open farmland bird diversity, whilst controlling for the effects of distance to forests, field edge density and proportion of built-up areas. Methods We surveyed open farmland birds using territory mapping in Southern Finland. We modelled effects of greening measures and landscape structure on farmland birds (7642 territories) using generalised linear mixed models. Results Increasing proportions of grasslands increased farmland bird species richness and diversity in open farmland, whereas increasing proportions of fallows increased bird diversity. Increasing crop diversity benefited individual species, but not species richness or diversity. Increasing field edge densities consistently increased the species richness of all farmland species, in-field nesters and non-crop nesters, as well as total farmland bird diversity. The relative effect of edge density was much stronger compared to the three greening measures. Conclusions Our results show that promoting fallows and grasslands, in particular grazed grasslands and various types of semi-natural grasslands, has the highest potential to benefit farmland bird diversity. Maintaining or increasing field edge densities, currently not supported, seems to be of even more benefit. In open farmland, with little or no field edges, fallows and grasslands are particularly beneficial.

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Weak effects of farming practices corresponding to agricultural greening measures on farmland bird diversity in boreal landscapes

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“…Better consolidation has also been reported to increase profitability in other countries. For example, on dairy farms in Spain, profitability increased when the farm was less fragmented [49], while in Finland land consolidation decreased enterprise costs [50]. However, most Swedish pastures are small, especially in forest districts where there is much abandoned and marginal arable land with low or no opportunity cost, but which would be appropriate for beef production if better consolidated.…”

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Merging Small Scattered Pastures into Large Pasture-Forest Mosaics Can Improve Profitability in Swedish Suckler-Based Beef Production

Holmström

Hessle

Andersson

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Abstract:A scattered structure of small pastures has negative effects on profitability in beef enterprises because small enclosures result in high labor costs per livestock unit. Moreover, larger enterprises distribute the costs across more livestock units and hence achieve lower operating costs. Creating larger coherent pastures makes it easier to increase herd size and yields positive effects due to economies of scale. This study on five Swedish organic cow-calf enterprises examined how profitability is affected by creating larger pastures from small scattered pastures and adjacent forest land. Additional income, additional costs, reduced income and reduced costs were taken into account using a partial budgeting technique. A change to larger coherent pastures was found to be profitable for all enterprises examined. Agri-environmental payments and supports were the most important benefit from creating larger pastures, followed by income increases and cost reductions resulting from economies of scale and improved consolidation. Income reductions due to premature final felling (clearcutting of forest land) and the opportunity cost of forest land did not have a major influence. To conclude, creating large coherent pasture-forest mosaics by merging small scattered enclosures is profitable for Swedish organic cow-calf enterprises.

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“…There is a lack in holistic methodology that is generally accepted to evaluate the effects of land consolidation [18]. The methodology varies from country to country due to differences in natural and social conditions and the different objectives of land policy, and in most cases, depends on the availability of data [17,19]. Descriptive definition criteria, is described as follows: "The criterion is a measure to the same point of view of assessing individual decision" [20].…”

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Integrated Assessment Methodology for Land Consolidation Projects: Case Study Pecinci, Serbia

Marinković

Lazić

Morača

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Changes in the structure and fragmentation of land plots, arising from the process of privatization and restitution, as well as from the realization of large-scale infrastructural projects in Southeast Europe and similar, actualize problems in terms of intensive agricultural production, and aesthetic and functional spacing design. The need for initiating new projects regarding land consolidation cycles is increasing with the aim to solve spatial, environmental, and strategic issues in agriculture, as well as to provide appropriate conditions for the application of modern land treating methods. However, land consolidation projects are very complex, long-lasting and financially very demanding. To minimize risk and exclude the possibility of inadequate selection methods, this paper describes the methodology for integrated assessment, which allows decision making on the basis of two or more methods. Per integrated assessment methodology, this study includes several multi-criteria analysis methods, which do not exclude the possibility of integrating other methods. The results obtained in this study are not only beneficial to the South-Eastern Europe region, but also to all countries where land redistribution is expanding.

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Agricultural impacts and profitability of land consolidations

Cited by 100 publications

References 12 publications

Weak effects of farming practices corresponding to agricultural greening measures on farmland bird diversity in boreal landscapes

Weak effects of farming practices corresponding to agricultural greening measures on farmland bird diversity in boreal landscapes

Merging Small Scattered Pastures into Large Pasture-Forest Mosaics Can Improve Profitability in Swedish Suckler-Based Beef Production

Integrated Assessment Methodology for Land Consolidation Projects: Case Study Pecinci, Serbia

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