Impact of agricultural landholding size on the land fragmentation

Sikk, K., Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Tartu; Maasikamaee, S., Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Tartu

Impact of agricultural landholding size on the land fragmentation

2015

Sikk, K., Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Tartu (Estonia) | Maasikamaee, S., Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Tartu (Estonia)

Land fragmentation is a problem in Europe, and Estonia is not an exception in this respect. Parcel size is widespread characteristic to describe the level of fragmentation. The aim of the study is to find out if there is difference of fragmentation among different groups of landholdings by size. In order to characterise land fragmentation, were calculated the Januszewski and Schmook indexes, average parcel size and average distance from the gravity centre of each landholding to its parcels. Results showed a high level of fragmentation of Estonian agricultural landholdings. There is a high variety of fragmentation inside and among the investigated groups. The average value of Januszewski index for all groups is 0.626, and the average value of Schmook index for all groups is 0.462. The average parcel size for all groups is 7.02 hectares and average distance from the gravity centre of each landholding to its parcels for all groups is 1.57 kilometres.

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Mots clés AGROVOC

agricultural structure arable land calcul calculation computer software data collection data processing estonia estonie field size geographical information systems land ownership latvia letonia lettonie logiciel procesamiento de datos programas de ordenador propiedad de la tierra structure agricole taille des parcelles terre arable tierras arables

Informations bibliographiques

Publié dans

Research for Rural Development. International Scientific Conference Proceedings (Latvia)

Numéro 21/2015 ISSN 1691-4031

Editeur

Latvia University of Agriculture

Pagination

p. 301-306

D'autres materias

Traitement des donnees; Estructura agricola; Tamano de las parcelas; Propriete fonciere; Coleccion de datos; Sistemas de informacion geografica; Collecte de donnees; Calculo; Systeme d'information geographique

Langue

anglais

Type

Conference; Summary; Web Site; Ams

Conférence

International Scientific Conference: Research for Rural Development, 21, Jelgava (Latvia), 13-15 May 2015

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