Short description:

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land-use, drawing on an array of global case studies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and agriculture, land-use and land management, rural studies and sustainable development.

Long description:

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land-use, drawing on an array of global case studies. 

This volume examines agricultural land-use through a three pronged approach: structural transformations, environmental challenges and planning and policy. Reflecting the global relevance of contemporary challenges to agricultural land-use, the book presents a wide-range of novel case studies from across the world, including Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Slovenia, Czechia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Algeria, North-East Africa countries, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, and Brazil. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue related to agricultural land use in that country or region, including land fragmentation, reduction of crop land, agricultural intensification, desertification of soils, climate change, biodiversity loss, traditional agricultural systems, urbanization and rural development, planning challenges for agricultural land. Together the chapters present a global view of the challenges facing the agricultural industry and offer solutions for developing sustainable agricultural practices to ensure food security and environmental and biodiversity conservation. 

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and agriculture, land-use and land management, rural studies and sustainable development.

Table of Contents:

List of contributors

Introduction

SECTION I Structural transformation of agricultural land

1.1   Jerzy Bański, Contemporary processes of transformation of the agricultural land use in Central Europe

1.2. József Lennert, Jenő Zsolt Farkas, Agricultural Transformation in Hungary: Trends and Challenges Since 1990

1.3. Simon Measho Yhdego, Structural transitions of agricultural land use across Northeast Africa during 2001-2020

1.4. Francisco M.P. Mugizi, Land fragmentation and agricultural productivity in Tanzania

1.5. Shiqi Wang, Zhi Cao, Yizhu Ruan, Structural transitions of agricultural land-use in China after 1978

1.6. Chandra Kala Magar, Dhanjit Deka, Bimal Kumar Kar, Growth of Tea Plantations and Its Impact on Agricultural Land-use in Assam (India)

SECTION II Environmental and social challenges in agricultural land use

2.1. Guy M. Robinson, Bingjie Song, Agriculture's response to diverse environmental and other challenges in the driest state in the driest continent

2.2. Daniellé A. du Plooy, Sean Connelly, Shaping Agriculture and Agri-Food System Futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: The Role of Values and Relationships with Land and Self

2.3. Milada Šťastná, Antonín Vaishar, Recent Changes of Land Use in Southern Moravia's Lowland and Highland Regions

2.4. Daniela Ribeiro, Matej Gabrovec, Transformation of cultural landscapes: case studies from Slovenia

2.5. Sivapuram Venkata Rama Krishna Prabhakar, Agricultural land use and its climate change vulnerability in Asia: Moving from vulnerability to resilience

2.6. Tayeb Addoun, Dynamic of agriculture and sustainability the Oasis ecosystem: The Case of Mansoura (Algerian Sahara)

SECTION III Farm land in planning and policy

3.1. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Chima Iheaturu^, Frank Mintah, Ingrid Kjelsen, Robin Hartmann, Juri Fitz, Paule Pamela Tabi Eckebil, Georges A. Agonvonon, Giulia F. Curatola Fernández, Vladimir R. Wingate, David Ellison, Samuel Hepner, Felicia O. Akinyemi, Targeting agricultural land expansion across Africa: Pathways through effective land governance, nature protection and intensification

3.2. Laudelina Alves Ribeiro, Uelson Serra Garcia, Jefferson Andronio Ramundo Staduto, Ana Cecília Kreter, Development Policy and Its Influence on Land Use: A Study of Institutional Markets in Maranh?o, Brazil

3.3. Gregory Veeck, Rapid increases in arable land values, and long-term implications to the farm sector and rural economy of the United States: 2000 ? 2023

3.4. Zhao Qianyu, Liu Hao, Urbanization and Agricultural Land Use Transformation in China:  A Perspective of Off-farm Employment

3.5. Ashley Gunter, Transitioning Agricultural Land to Eco-Estates in Rural Gauteng: Farmers' Perceptions and Policy and Planning Implications

3.6.Catherine Nakalembe, Diana B. Frimpong, Gordon Y. Mwesigwa, Long-term Agricultural Land Use Change Analysis and Land Use Policy in Karamoja, Uganda, since 2000

3.7. S?ren Bech Pilgaard Kristensen, Anne Gravsholt Busck, Michael Helt Knudsen, Rural idyll or forgotten backwaters: What and who determines the transition of rural areas in Denmark? A case study from Central Jutland, Denmark