scholarly journals The hierarchization of needs related to land consolidation and exchange in rural areas in the villages of district Leżajsk

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 00005
Author(s):  
Justyna Wójcik-Leń ◽  
Przemysław Leń
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Land Art ◽  
Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Territorial Structure

Rural areas in Poland are characterized by differentiated spatial structure. The spatial structure of rural areas can be improved through the consolidation and exchange of land (Art.1, Act of 26 March 1982 on consolidation and exchange of land) aiming to create more favourable management conditions in agriculture and forestry by improving the territorial structure of farms, forests and forestland, reasonable configuration of land, aligning the limits of real properties with the system of water irrigation facilities, roads and terrain. In connection with such a requirement for the consolidation and exchange of land, a hierarchy of needs and their urgency must be established. Such an approach makes it possible to secure funds for liquidating the spatial structure of agricultural land according to the urgency ranking. The studies were carried out in the rural areas of the Leżajsk poviat.

scholarly journals Czekanowski’s Diagram and Spatial Data Cluster Analysis for Planning Sustainable Development of Rural Areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11404
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Oleniacz
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Result Interpretation

Defects in the spatial structure of agricultural land resulting from the common phenomenon of land fragmentation constitute one of the most important factors that contribute to the lack of rational land management. Reconstruction of the spatial structure of rural areas is essential for their sustainable development. The process of land consolidation is a tool that can arrange space and lead to the desired structural changes. It is reasonable to select objects for land consolidation in such a way as to obtain the best possible effect. This article presents an algorithm for grouping areas with the concentration of the external land ownership patchwork with the use of Czekanowski’s method of cluster analysis. The clusters determined this way can be treated as the whole objects subjected to land consolidation, for which the process will bring the greatest benefits in terms of the elimination of the external land ownership patchwork. The described algorithm is relatively simple to use and the graphical final form is easy for the result interpretation. It allows for multi-variant examination of the analyzed phenomenon and can be applied wherever there is access to reliable information from land registry and cadastral and GIS databases that are used to obtain a complete picture of the spatial and ownership structure of the analyzed areas.

scholarly journals A Proposed Land Exchange Algorithm for Eliminating the External Plot Patchwork

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Żanna Stręk ◽  
Przemysław Leń ◽  
Justyna Wójcik-Leń ◽  
Paweł Postek ◽  
Monika Mika ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Test Sample ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Exchange Algorithm ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Structure Improvement ◽  
Land Exchange

In many countries of the world, rural areas are characterized by a defective spatial structure of agricultural land. The most frequent defects are large fragmentation and distribution of farmland. The fragmentation of land has been an issue widely described by many authors throughout the world. The problem of the distribution of land owned by individual farmers is slightly different, since due to the complexity of the problem this issue was not widely explored in Poland (plot patchwork) or in other countries of Europe and the world. Land fragmentation and distribution of plots in rural areas has a negative effect on the profitability and efficiency of agricultural production. Land consolidation and exchange is an operation facilitating spatial structure improvement. The authors attempted to develop a universal land exchange algorithm for eliminating the external plot patchwork. As it turns out, so far no land exchange algorithm has been developed. Specific analyses were carried out in Puchaczów commune, county of Łęczna, Lublin voivodeship in the eastern part of Poland, covering an area of 6907.80 ha, split into 15,211 plots. The chequerboard arrays method was used. The publication presents the algorithm and its practical application using a test sample. A result of the studies is a proposal concerning the exchange of land between landowners in the villages of the commune of Puchaczów. Using the algorithm, the area of individual lands in the commune, after the exchange, will increase by 172.09 ha, which is 2.5% for the area of individual lands, and 1.9% for the commune.

scholarly journals The Effects of Defective Spatial Structure on the Agricultural Property Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-192
Author(s):  
Anna Bielska ◽  
Tomasz Budzyński ◽  
Wioleta Krupowicz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Transaction Prices ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Property Price ◽  
Agricultural Areas

Abstract Rural areas in Poland are distinguished by one of the worst spatial structures of individual land properties in the European Union. The least favourable structure occurs in the southern and south-eastern part of the country, where it results in farms losing 20-30% of their agricultural revenue. The bad spatial organisation of land is also reflected in transaction prices obtained for agricultural land. Considering criteria such as: land management, parcel area, width, and elongation (length to width ratio), and soil bonitation value, this paper determines the effect of each of the criteria separately on the development of transaction prices of agricultural land in the years 2009-2014 in selected villages in the southern part of the Cegłów (Mińsk district, Mazowieckie province), distinguished by the unfavourable spatial structure of agricultural land. Meeting this objective involved the application of the analytical capacity of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS), cadastral data base, soil-agricultural map vector, study of the conditions and directions of the spatial management of the Cegłów area, and the property price and value register. The obtained study results suggest that in areas with particularly defective spatial structure, land with parameters permitting its efficient use, i.e. with proper width and elongation is particularly valuable. Another parameter determining the level of obtained prices is the bonitation value, although it is of less importance for the analysed area than for agricultural areas with proper management conditions.

scholarly journals Effects of land consolidation in Southern Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-282
Author(s):  
Monika Balawejder ◽  
Katarzyna Matkowska ◽  
Ernest Rymarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Plot Area ◽  
Individual Farm ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Made In

Motives: The fragmentation of land and the distribution of plots in rural areas negatively affects the profitability and efficiency of agricultural production. Land consolidation is an activity that facilitates the improvement of the spatial structure and at the same time contributes to the sustainable development of rural areas. European Union (EU) funding helps to improve, among others the area structure of agricultural land in the EU countries. Aim: From these premises, the purpose of the work results, which is the assessment of the effects of the performed consolidation of land with EU funding. The detailed analysis covered 16 precincts from the Podkarpackie voivodeship and 3 precincts from the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship. The assessment of the consolidation of land was made in 19 consolidated objects in the years 2007-2020. In practice, there is a problem of how to demonstrate the effects of land consolidation? This article proposes to present the four most important effects of land consolidation in the form of the following coefficients: W1 (coefficient of reducing the number of plots as a result of consolidation), W2 (coefficient of increasing the average plot area in the consolidation facility), W3 (coefficient of reducing the number of plots in an individual farm as a result of consolidation), W4 (index of road network density in merged area) are a reliable image of the results of the land consolidation performed in the studied area. Results: The results were obtained. Index W1 in the examined objects indicated the result of 34.0% for the Podkarpackie voivodeship, and 28.8% for the Świętokrzyskie. Index W2 in the Podkarpackie voivodeship is 27.0%, and in the Świętokrzyskie it is higher and amounts to 29.7%. Index W3 which amounts to 39.4% of the average number of plots in a farm in the Podkarpackie voivodeship and much higher, amounting to 46.6% in the Świętokrzyskie. Index W4 for the Podkarpackie voivodeship is + 14.7%. However, for the Świętokrzyskie it is only + 3.7%. Summing up, the study analyzed four indicators showing the effects of land consolidation in southern Poland. The results obtained for these two voivodeships were similar. However, unsatisfactory in terms of the effects of land consolidation.

scholarly journals Specific features of development of selected agricultural problematic areas in the land consolidation process

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Wójcik-Leń ◽  
Katarzyna Sobolewska-Mikulska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Marginal Lands ◽  
Consolidation Process ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
Agricultural Areas

AbstractDevelopment of the Polish agriculture and its production abilities are spatially diversified. At present, in Poland agricultural areas may be distinguished which may successfully compete with the agriculture in the European Union countries. However, areas where private farms run their businesses on the verge of profitability or below also exist in Poland. Those areas are called agricultural problematic areas (OPR), depression areas, areas not useful for agricultural purposes, marginal lands etc. It is estimated that OPR covers over 60-70% of our country. Land consolidation is the process which improves the spatial structure of rural areas, including problematic areas. When this geodetic process is performed it is possible to interpret specific features of selected agricultural problematic areas and to propose alternative and the most effective ways of development of the discussed areas. As a result of those agricultural-and-development operations rural areas are becoming competitive and improve the living conditions. However, they are performed on a very small scale, in recent years this area is about 5900 hectares per year.

The Study of Spatial Autocorrelation of the Land Consolidation in Lubelskie Voivodeship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Dudzinska
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Spatial Autocorrelation ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
National Average ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Neighbouring Area ◽  
The Subject

In Poland land consolidation is carried out mainly in the southern part of the country. In three voivodships, Lublin Voivodship, Podkarpackie Voivodship and Lesser Poland Voivodship, in the years 2003–2014 there were numerous land consolidations, over 20,000 ha in each voivodship. That is above national average of land consolidation. In another three voivodships (Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, West Pomeranian Voivodship and The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship) there are no land consolidation, even though according to scientists from the Polish, every voivodship requires land consolidations processes. What is the reason for that situation? Why are so many land consolidations conducted in the area of several voivodships in Poland, and in other voivodships considerably less or not at all? It is known that the location of the implementation of agricultural land consolidations in a particular area is determined by numerous factors, inter alia the construction of line infrastructural projects i.e. motorways, faulty spatial structure found in a particular area, and farmers in Poland applying for the implementation of this project. It is also known that the neighbourhood of the implementation of these works is of significance. Situations are observed in which the appearance of one consolidation object contributes to the development of this measure in the neighbouring area. However, there is no empirical evidence to support this view. Therefore, the subject of considerations will be the investigation into the occurrence of spatial relationships between consolidation objects. Two variables were adopted for the analysis, namely the number and density of consolidations. In order to determine the relationships, spatial autocorrelation was applied.

scholarly journals Decision-making models using the Analytical Hierarchy Process in the urgency of land consolidation works

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-150
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Oleniacz ◽  
Izabela Skrzypczak ◽  
Przemysław Leń
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Decision Making Models ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Land Exchange

AbstractPoland is characterized by a number of factors which adversely affect the agricultural economy, so this paper will aim to present the possibilities of using multi-criteria decision-making methods of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in the analysis of the spatial structure of rural areas. AHP is a widely used tool for making complex decisions based on a large number of criteria, such as, for example, land consolidation works on fragmented agricultural land. The first step is to formulate the decision-making process, then the assessment criteria and the solution variants guided by expert knowledge are determined.A ranking, according to which the order of land consolidation and land exchange works in the studied area should be determined, will be defined by using decision-making models of the AHP method. The basis for calculations will be the weights received for the factors/parameters defined for the five thematic groups. Calculations for individual villages will be made, and then the obtained results will allow creating a ranking for the studied commune, allowing for the effective (in terms of economic and socio-economic) spending of funds for this purpose. The presented method can be successfully used to conduct analogous analyses for any area.

scholarly journals Method of Delimiting the Spatial Structure of Villages for the Purposes of Land Consolidation and Exchange

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Żanna Stręk ◽  
Karol Noga
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
Diagnostic Variables

Land fragmentation and the distribution of plots in rural areas has a negative effect on the profitability and efficiency of agricultural production. Land consolidation and exchange is an operation that facilitates improvements in the spatial structure, while at the same time contributing to the sustainable development of rural areas. With regard to the large number of problem areas, they cannot be subject to land consolidation and exchange at the same time for reasons related to finance and human resources. Therefore, the authors propose that land for consolidation should be consolidated into larger typological units. Identifying those areas that are most similar facilitates the analysis and makes it possible to capture the spatial differentiation of land. The proposed method was tested on 116 villages in the county of Łęczna, situated in Lublin Voivodeship in Eastern Poland. The aim of this research is to develop the concept of village grouping into larger typological units. The obtained results allowed for the creation of a grouping methodology based on selected diagnostic variables that can be applied to other research objects. The description of differences between the identified groups of villages makes it possible to determine the hierarchy of urgency of for land consolidation and exchange. Although delimitation itself does not determine the sequence in which consolidation should be performed, it does allow for the identification of similar areas where such works should be performed at the same time. Based on properly selected guidelines, it is also possible to develop an adequate hierarchy of works. In addition, identifying areas which share similar spatial characteristics and consolidating them has a positive influence, primarily on the cultural heritage, because some variables reflect both quantitative and qualitative aspects of human development on the use of land and on the built-up environment.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Status of Real Property in Rural Areas

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ľubica Hudecová ◽  
Robert Geisse
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Variable Number ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Ecological Stability ◽  
Real Property ◽  
The Status ◽  
Evaluation Parameters

Abstract Municipalities have a great deal of interest in land consolidation. Deciding which municipality is going to be prioritized for land consolidation is not easy; a unified universal selection procedure does not currently exist. The article proposes a procedure for assessing land ownership in a municipality. Municipalities with the worst ratings should be prioritized for land consolidation. The selection of evaluation parameters and their classification into groups is the result of previous experience. The parameters cover a broad spectrum of variables, economic conditions, the spatial structure of the agricultural land, the fragmentation of land and land ownership, the ecological stability of the land, territorial endangerment as well as natural conditions, technical limitations, and other regional specifics. The proposed quantification of the status of real property can be used with the aim of prioritizing municipalities, even with a variable number of evaluation parameters. To test the proposed algorithm, analyses were carried out in three municipalities located in west Slovakia. The municipalities were ranked according to the need to perform land consolidation

scholarly journals The size of the external patchwork of fields as an indicator of the need for land consolidation and exchange in the villages of the commune of Drzewica

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Leń
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Central Poland ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Land Exchange

Abstract Land consolidation and exchange have a significant impact on improving the spatial structure of rural areas in Poland. Given the fact that agricultural areas in different regions of Poland are characterized by different spatial and technical parameters and different legal and land-ownership-related conditions, it is necessary to conduct investigations and analyses focused on selecting the optimum features describing a given area. As demonstrated by previous studies, the areas located in central Poland are characterized by a defective land ownership pattern with an external patchwork of fields. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out studies to determine the size of that external patchwork of land ownership and to propose solutions for its liquidation. The analyses reported in this article clearly show that in the area studied, priority should be given to land exchange followed by land consolidation.

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