Farmland Fragmentation, Farmland Consolidation and Food Security: Relationships, Research Lapses and Future Perspectives

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Farmland fragmentation and farmland consolidation are two sides of the same coin paradoxically viewed as management tools. While there is a vast body literature addressing connections between on one hand agriculture production crops diversification other hand, their relationship with variations in food security still under-explored. This challenges policy makers about whether how to devise policies favor conservation or defragmentation. Therefore, drawing multiple secondary data deductive logical reasoning through an integrative concept-centric qualitative approach following rationalist theory, this study critically reviews analyses existing identify versus defragmentation approaches relate security. The goal develop derive explicit model indicating when, where, why can be conserved prevented controlled for motives novel alternative comprehensive scientific knowledge generation, which could guide inform design future research management. findings show that both variously (positively negatively) impact at different (macro, meso micro) levels. highly linked (food quality), acceptability, accessibility, sovereignty local (household individual) levels, often associated quantity availability community, regional national Theoretically, best purposes achieved by minimizing problems physical tenure aspects along optimization its potential benefits. In regard, consolidation, voluntary parcel exchange on-field harvest sales, realignment, use (crop) suitable control under various conditions. Similarly, banking off-farm employment, restrictions minimum sizes subdivision absentee owners, joint ownership, cooperative farming, agricultural land protection policies, family planning measures prevent minimize problems. On intensification programs, agroecogical approaches, saving technologies most strategies maximize income from fragmented plots circumstances beneficial fragmentation. Moreover, areas where rational defective scenarios coexist, specific like localized multicropping based combination without provide better more balanced optimal solutions. These simultaneously effects thereby optimizing jeopardizing benefits regard

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Land

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2073-445X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land10020129