Agricultural Land Use

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).

• List of contributorsIntroduction to the bookSECTION I Structural transformation of agricultural land1. Jerzy Bański, Contemporary processes of transformation of the agricultural land use in Central Europe2. József Lennert, Jenő Zsolt Farkas, Agricultural Transformation in Hungary: trends and challenges since 19903. Simon Measho Yhdego, Structural transitions of agricultural land use across Northeast Africa during 2001-20204. Francisco M.P. Mugizi, Land fragmentation and agricultural productivity in Tanzania5. Shiqi Wang, Zhi Cao, Yizhu Ruan, Structural transitions of agricultural land-use in China after 19786. 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 use7. Guy M. Robinson, Bingjie Song, Agriculture's response to diverse environmental and other challenges in the driest state in the driest continent8. 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 self9. Milada Šťastná, Antonín Vaishar, Recent changes of land use in Southern Moravia's lowland and highland regions10. Daniela Ribeiro, Matej Gabrovec, Transformation of cultural landscapes: case studies from Slovenia11. Sivapuram Venkata Rama Krishna Prabhakar, Agricultural land use and its climate change vulnerability in Asia: moving from vulnerability to resilience12. Tayeb Addoun, Dynamic of agriculture and sustainability of the oasis ecosystem: the case of Mansoura (Algerian Sahara)SECTION III Farm land in planning and policy13. 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 nature protection, sustainable intensification, and strengthening land governance14. 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, Brazil15. Gregory Veeck, Rapid increases in arable land values, and long-term implications to the farm sector and rural economy of the United States: 2000–202316. Zhao Qianyu, Liu Hao, Urbanization and agricultural land use transformation in China: a perspective of off-farm employment17. Ashley Gunter, Transitioning agricultural land to eco-estates in rural Gauteng: farmers' perceptions and policy and planning implications18.Catherine Nakalembe, Diana B. Frimpong, Gordon Y. Mwesigwa, Long-term agricultural land use change analysis and land use policy in Karamoja, Uganda, since 200019. 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