Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Alemu, Gashaw Tenna; Ayele, Z.; Berhanu, Assefa Abelieneh

doi:10.1155/2017/4509605

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“…The large family, especially among the agrarian communities, have a number of advantages because it provides a large force for agronomic activities. However, over the period of time larger family size would result in fragmentation of farm land which can have negative consequences over period of time (Alemu et al, 2017). The ndings revealed that most of the respondents in the survey were males.…”

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Traditional Husbandry Practices of Goats in Selected Districts of Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Woldeyohannes¹,

Hankamo

Banerjee³

2021

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The aim of this study was to describe goat production system in two districts of Sidama zone of southern Ethiopia using two production systems. Semi-structured questionnaire was developed and employed to gather information regarding the management activities, purpose of keeping goats and selection criteria of farmers to select breeding animals. A total of 240 households were interviewed to collect relevant information for the study. Data collected from questionnaire was statistically analyzed and summarized into descriptive statistics. Indexes was calculated to clarify rankings by using indexes formula. The number goat population is more in Loka Abaya than Aroresa. The primary purpose of keeping goats study area are mainly for their milk, meat and income generation. The reproductive potential of Does reared in the Aroresa district was lower. Broad shoulders, compact frame and short and thick necks of the Bucks were considered as the most important characteristics for selection. Communal grazing and crop aftermath were the most common feed sources reported by farmers in the study area. River was the major water source for goats in the study districts. The major factors limiting the productivity of goats are feed shortage, diseases, labour shortage and lack of improved goat breeds.

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Section: General Household Informationmentioning

confidence: 90%

Traditional Husbandry Practices of Goats in Selected Districts of Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Woldeyohannes¹,

Hankamo

Banerjee³

2021

Preprint

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“…Land consolidation is the integration of several properties and their documents (Alamzadeh, 2015;Aydın et al, 2018) Although land consolidation can be considered the opposite of land fragmentation, this method, especially at large and medium scales, will lead to the re-fragmentation of consolidated land. However, land fragmentation refers to rural areas and the small size, irregular shape, and dispersion of parcels (Alemu et al 2017) and consolidation has been a solution for land fragmentation (Demetriou, 2016). If this broad process is defined, it is a key step in the development process and involves taking land from the owner; land preparation; planning for streets, open spaces and basic services; developed form planning; split the land into building blocks; delivery of the scheduled form (Golland, 2003).…”

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Evaluation of Land Consolidation and Renovation Processin the Decayed Textures: A Case of Study the Nezamabad Neighborhood in Tehran

Ghalehteimouri

Kojouri

2020

Resilience

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Decayed textures have been one of the most important issues and challenges of Tehran's urban management in the last two decades. Therefore, numerous and varied policies, programs, and actions have been adopted and implemented in these decayed areas. The land consolidation is one of the approaches of the renovation of the old and decayed urban texture of Tehran based on resolution 300/310/15301 dated 24/07/2006 of the Supreme Council of Urban Planning and Architecture of Iran and clauses 9-5 of the detailed design rules and regulations finely executed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the process of land consolidation in the renovation of the urban decayed texture of the Nizamabad neighborhood in zone 1, district 7 of Tehran Municipality. Most of the information required for this research was collected by the field study method. The respondent sampling of this study consisted of the developers, experts, fine-grained unit owners of the combined fine-grained parts of this neighborhood. SPSS software was used to analyze the descriptive data. Chi-Square and Friedman nonparametric statistical tests were used depending on the type of data, the scale of variables and goals. According to the results of this study, the process of implementation of consolidation renovation in the Nizamabad neighborhood has been faced with numerous and various damages.

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“…Land fragmentation (LF) is a universal trait of all agricultural systems that affects farmland productivity, and as yet, no one has documented a rural society where there was no LF [1]. LF is a complex concept that encompasses four aspects: (i) number of plots; (ii) sizes of plots; (iii) shape of plots; and (iv) distances between plots, or distance between plots and homesteads [2][3][4]. Fragmented landholding exerts both positive and negative effects on agricultural performance.…”

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Fragmentation Reduction through Farmer-Led Land Transfer and Consolidation? Experiences of Rice Farmers in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China

Zhang

Chen

2021

Agriculture

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Land fragmentation has become a serious obstacle to agricultural production, and land transfer and consolidation are traditionally emphasized as the two most effective solutions to this quandary. To identify the extent of land fragmentation accurately and systematically, this study selected the number of plots, the average size of plots, and the average distance between plots to calculate the land fragmentation index (LFI). Taking the Wuhan metropolitan area as a case study, this study examined the effectiveness of farmer-led land transfer and consolidation on land fragmentation. The main results are as follows: (a) most of the transferred plots and contracted plots were not spatially adjacent, suggesting that the tenants could not merge and consolidate both plots; (b) land transfer caused the LFI to increase by 2.85%, suggesting that land transfer had intensified the degree of land fragmentation to some extent; (c) if the transferred and contracted plots were non-adjacent or adjacent but unmerged and unconsolidated, then the LFI might increase or decrease; (d) if the transferred and contracted plots were spatially adjacent, merged, and consolidated, then the LFI decreased significantly.

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Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Cited by 40 publications

References 25 publications

Traditional Husbandry Practices of Goats in Selected Districts of Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Traditional Husbandry Practices of Goats in Selected Districts of Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Evaluation of Land Consolidation and Renovation Processin the Decayed Textures: A Case of Study the Nezamabad Neighborhood in Tehran

Fragmentation Reduction through Farmer-Led Land Transfer and Consolidation? Experiences of Rice Farmers in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China

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