The development of Agricultural Land Consolidation in Russia has always been unique, compared to other countries due the state land policy, vastness territory, and variety natural soil conditions. Because it, internationally recognized generally accepted approaches models it cannot be applied. consolidation agricultural country is developing sometimes spontaneously chaotic. At federal level, th...

Land consolidation is an instrument that readjusts land parcel shapes and reallocates rights in order to minimize farmland fragmentation, optimize agricultural output, generate optimal living working conditions rural areas. The optimization reallocation algorithms typically rely on monetarized values of parcels, soil quality, compensation amounts. Yet, management interventions also need instrum...

Urbanization transforms urban-rural landscape and profoundly affects ecological processes. To maintain a sustainable urbanization, two important issues of land-use need to be quantified: the comprehensive variation of urban-rural construction land and the specific models for consolidating these lands. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework to assess the change of urban-rural constr...

In many developing countries property rights over rural land are maintained through continuous personal use instead of by land titles. We show that removing the link between land use and land rights through the issuance of ownership certificates can result in large-scale adjustments to labor and land allocations. Using the rollout of the Mexican land certification program from 1993 to 2006, we ...