Consolidation of agricultural land can contribute to agricultural sustainability in China

Agriculture is increasingly facing major challenges such as climate change, scarcity of natural resources and changing societal demands. To tackle these challenges there is a pressing need to evolve towards more sustainable agricultural practices. As a result, sustainability stands among the most relevant topics in agricultural research worldwide, and Spain is no exception. Agricultural sustainability has been analysed in Spain mainly at a national and farm scale. This contribution aims at assessing agricultural sustainability in Spain at a provincial scale, allowing the scrutiny of regional variability induced by the existing differences in extension, relevance and policies of the agricultural activity at this level. The sustainability assessment performed is based on a selection of twenty-two indicators covering the three classical dimensions of sustainability—environmental, economic and social. The methodology implemented is based on normalising and aggregating selected indicators according to three composite indicators for the fifty Spanish provinces. Numerous statistical and cartographic sources are used. Cluster analysis establishes four different groups of provinces according to their performance in terms of agricultural sustainability. Higher economic sustainability in provincial agriculture seems to be mostly associated with more intensive use of agricultural labour and agricultural machinery and faster wealth growth. Social sustainability seems to be linked to greater diversification of economic activities and to quality productions under Protected Designations of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indications (PGI). Best environmental sustainability is achieved where extension of agricultural land is larger, less agricultural area is burned, and carbon stock and sequestration by agricultural ecosystems is better. It is expected that the results could improve the policy coherence and decision-making for more sustainable agricultural systems in Spanish regions.

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Evaluation of Farms’ Sustainability According to Land Tenure in Mornag, Tunisia

Caraka Tani Journal of Sustainable Agriculture ◽

10.20961/carakatani.v36i1.43726 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 45

Author(s):

Anissa Gara ◽

Mohamed Karim Aounallah ◽

Dorra Ajabi

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Environmental Concern ◽

Land Ownership ◽

Agricultural Sustainability ◽

Ecological Scale ◽

Fodder Crops ◽

Farm Sustainability ◽

The Impact

<p>In Tunisia the main objective of sustainable agriculture is to improve agricultural systems by creating more wealth and meeting the needs of the population without compromising those of future generations. It turned out that confusion and lack of clarity of ownership status of agricultural land would lead to instability in agricultural sustainability by having a negative impact on social and economic prosperity and environment preservation. Within this environmental concern, the current research constitutes an assessment of the level of sustainability of different farms in Tunisia where problems of land ownership still exist. The current research is based on the Farm Sustainability Indicators method (standing for: <em>‘Indicateurs de durabilité des exploitations agricoles </em>or IDEA). This case study employed IDEA method which provides operational content to compare the sustainability concept at the farm level, based on the factor of ‘land tenure status’. In Tunisia, the lack of clear land ownership affects the output of agriculture that is why it is valuable to assess the impact of land properties status on farms’ agricultural sustainability. Hence, we distinguished two groups of farms: Private Farms (PF) (inherited from father to son) and Farming Enhancement Corporation (FEC) (state’s lands leased by farmers for many years). The results showed that land tenure has impact on farms sustainability. PF are more sustainable on both agro-ecological scale (49.2) and socio-territorial scale (48); compared to FEC (agro-ecological: 44.5 and socio-territorial: 46). PF favor integrated systems and the production of field crops and fodder crops and they attach greater importance to their employees’ training.</p>

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MODERN PROBLEMS OF RUSSIAN AGRICULTURAL LANDS’ ASSESSMENT

Interexpo GEO-Siberia ◽

10.33764/2618-981x-2021-3-2-228-234 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 228-234

Author(s):

Dmitry A. Shapovalov ◽

Stanislav I. Komarov ◽

Ruslana V. Zhdanova

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Land ◽

The State ◽

Agricultural Sustainability ◽

Agricultural Lands ◽

Present Stage ◽

Assessment Data ◽

The Past ◽

Near Future

In the article, the authors give a brief excursion into the stages of cadastral valuation of agricultural land in Russia. Starting in 2017, a fundamentally new organization of the State Cadastral Assessment has been taking shape in the country, and the results obtained over the past 3 years make it possible to draw conclusions about the main problems of cadastral assessment at the present stage. The authors classify them into three groups and give a generalized description of each of them. In the conclusion, possible ways for the development of cadastral valuation in the near future are described, such as digitalization and automation of the process, taking into account the factors of agricultural sustainability, using assessment data when unused agricultural lands are involved in the economic turnover.

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Kajian Daya Dukung Lahan dan Keberlanjutan Pertanian di Desa Duren Kecamatan Bandungan Kabupaten Semarang

Majalah Geografi Indonesia ◽

10.22146/mgi.51228 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Sudrajat Sudrajat ◽

Suhendra Suhendra ◽

Arifia Mawardani

Keyword(s):

Carrying Capacity ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Agricultural Sustainability ◽

Primary Data ◽

Economic Dimension ◽

Five Dimensions ◽

Institutional Dimension

Daya dukung lahan pertanian merupakan salah satu komponen penting dalam menentukan keberlanjutan pertanian. Hal ini terjadi karena tanpa adanya dukungan lahan pertanian maka keberlanjutan pertanian tidak akan dapat dipertahankan. Berdasarkan hal tersebut maka penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk mengkaji daya dukung lahan pertanian dan keberlanjutan pertanian di Desa Duren Kecamatan Bandungan Semarang. Jumlah sampel yang diambil sebanyak 92 rumahtangga tani secara random sampling. Data terdiri dari data primer dan data sekunder. Pengukuran daya dukung lahan pertanian dilakukan secara kuantitatif, sedangkan pengukuran keberlanjutan pertanian dilakukan secara kualitatif dengan skala likerts dan dianalisis dengan metode kuartil (Q). Hasil analisis daya dukung lahan pertanian menunjukkan bahwa lahan pertanian tidak lagi mendukung terhadap kehidupan petani, namun dari sisi keberlanjutannya masih menunjukkan tinggi. Hal ini terlihat dari hasil analisis keberlanjutan pertanian, dari 5 (lima) dimensi keberlanjutan, hanya 1 (satu) dimensi yang tergolong rendah yaitu dimensi sosal, sedangkan dimensi ekonomi, dimensi lingkungan, dimensi kelembagaan dan dimensi teknologi masih tergolong tinggi dalam mendukung keberlanjutan pertanian. Carrying capacity of agricultural land is one important component in determining agricultural sustainability. This happens because without the carrying capacity of agricultural land, the sustainability of agriculture will not be maintained. Based on this, this research was conducted with the aim for analyze the carrying capacity of agricultural land and agricultural sustainability in the Duren Village Bandungan District, Semarang. The number of samples taken was 92 farming households by random sampling. Data consists of primary data and secondary data. Measurement of the carrying capacity of agricultural land is done quantitatively, while the measurement of agricultural sustainability is done qualitatively with a Likerts scale and analyzed by the quartile (Q) method. The results of the analysis of the carrying capacity of agricultural land indicate that agricultural land no longer supports the lives of farmers, but in terms of sustainability it still shows high. This can be seen from the results of the analysis of agricultural sustainability, from 5 (five) dimensions of sustainability, only 1 (one) dimension which is classified as low namely social dimension, while the economic dimension, environmental dimension, institutional dimension and technological dimension are still relatively high in supporting agricultural sustainability.

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