iran is one of the countries facing the most severe farmland fragmentation (ff) in rural areas and farmland consolidation (fc) is generally regarded as being a suitable instrument to solve this problem . a case study in the central area of iran was conducted to explore landholder's attitudes towards issues related to ff and fc. randomized stratified sampling frame was used to select 146 landhol...

Farmland preservation is a national issue in modern China. Most studies have focused on farmland preservation policies in the agricultural, commercial and financial industries but have devoted relatively little attention to land use planning. Land use planning is crucial for farmland preservation. This paper selected Dachang County, a typical rural county bordering Beijing, as the study area an...

Farmland fragmentation and farmland consolidation are two sides of the same coin paradoxically viewed as management tools. While there is a vast body literature addressing connections between on one hand agriculture production crops diversification other hand, their relationship with variations in food security still under-explored. This challenges policy makers about whether how to devise poli...

Spatial system dynamics (SSD) models are typically implemented by linking stock variables to raster grids while the use of object representations of human artefacts such as buildings or ownership has been limited. This limitation is addressed by this article, which demonstrates the use of object representations in SSD. The objects are parcels of land that are attributed to grassland farms. The ...

Traditional smallholding-dominated agricultural landscapes in Southern China are increasingly homogenized and consolidated, resulting large mono-cropped fields impoverished pollinator communities. The exact impact of this farmland consolidation on composition functional traits wild bee communities remains poorly understood. We studied these oilseed rape embedded 18 located Jiangxi Province, Chi...

The areas of the land consolidation projects are generally small, so the remote sensing images used in land-cover classification for the land consolidation are generally high spatial resolution images. The spectral complexity of land consolidation objects results in specific limitation using pixel-based analysis for land cover classification such as farmland, woodland, and water. Considering th...