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, Northeast 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, and 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.
Edited by:
Jerzy Bański
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 810g
ISBN: 9781032672755
ISBN 10: 1032672757
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 12 June 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 Maranhão, 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. Søren 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
Jerzy Bański is Professor in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. From 2018 to 2021, he was the director of this institute and from 2006 to 2012, he was the president of the Polish Geographical Society. He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns (Routledge, 2021) and Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development (Routledge, 2020).
