Land is an integral part of people’s culture, economy, and livelihoods. Social and temporal mobility of people affect land acquisition, distribution, and utilization, which consequently impacts on food security and human wellbeing. Using the data collected by means of household survey, focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and participant observation, this paper examines the dynamics of...

This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization of agricultural production. On the other hand, the empirical results ...

Vulnerability of soil separates to detachment by water is described as soil erodibility by Universal Soil Loss Equation which can be affected by land use change. In this study it was attempted to quantify the changes of Universal Soil Loss Equation K-factor and its soil driving factors in three land uses including rangeland, rainfed farming, and orchards in Babolrood watershed, northern Iran. S...

the purposeof this studywas to analyzing factors that effecting on rangeland degradation. statistical population of this research consisted of whole farmer in pirtaj district (n= 1600); from that 120 farmer were selected as sample using cluster sampling. the main tool to collect data was a researcher made questionnaire that content validity of the questionnaire was approved, by a panel of exper...

Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...

Animal group size distributions are often right-skewed, whereby most groups are small, but most individuals occur in larger groups that may also disproportionately affect ecology and policy. In this case, examining covariates associated with upper quantiles of the group size distribution could facilitate better understanding and management of large animal groups.We studied wintering elk groups ...

What have we learned about land markets in South Asia-What Have We Learned? cropping, security of tenure. farm size, land riglts, transaction costs, bargaining Rashid Faruqee power, policy distortions, and Kevin Carey market irnperfectitns (including those associated with gender)?

the research analyzed the land tenure system among rice farmers in awe local government area of nasarawa state, nigeria. two hundred and forty (240) farmers were sampled by a multi stage sampling procedure and used as respondents for the study. well-structured questionnaires were used for data collection. the main means of data analysis were percentages and correlation. findings revealed that 4...

to investigate factors affecting the adoption of conservation tillage systems, the tillage methods utilized by wheat producers in the central darab county are categorized into conventional, reduced-tillage and no tillage systems. for this purpose, multinomial logit model approach using the stata software was applied to the data set collected by random cluster sampling method. the explanatory va...