The Transfer of Agricultural Land Ownership before Zoning Change

Land cover change and ownership turnover in the agricultural frontier: the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

This study investigates land cover change and land ownership turnover in an area that is both the agricultural frontier and a priority conservation zone, the Sierra del Lacandón National Park (SLNP), Petén, Guatemala. The goal is to understand how the agricultural frontier changes over time with regard to population, household characteristics, and land use. This study analyzes panel-data consis...

Agricultural Land Ownership and Tenure Patterns in Nebraska

Zoning Land for Agricultural Protection by the Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Cellular Automata

Zoning strategic agricultural land for protection has become important in reducing agricultural land loss in rapidly growing areas. In this paper, a constrained CA model based on the integration of remote sensing, GIs, and cellular automata (CA) techniques was developed to overcome the limitations of the existing methods commonly used b y planners in zoning land for agricultural protection. Rem...

Land Ownership Transfer and Productivity: Evidence from Taiwan

Previous studies of tenancy and land reform programs suggest that these programs substantially increased agricultural productivity. However, these studies are limited to sharecropping environments. This paper investigates the productivity effect of the 1953 land ownership transfer program in Taiwan, where fixed-rental contracts predominated. This program transferred 27% of the paddy land to inc...

Land surface phenology, climatic variation, and institutional change: Analyzing agricultural land cover change in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is the second largest country to emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Consequent to the abrupt institutional changes surrounding the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Kazakhstan has reportedly undergone extensive land cover/land use change. Were the institutional changes sufficiently great to affect land surface phenology at spatial resolutions and exten...