Considering the level of socio-economic development of rural areas in the context of infrastructural and traditional consolidations in Poland

Małgorzata Dudzińska, Stanisław Bacior and Barbara Prus

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 79, issue C, 759-773

Abstract: Agricultural land consolidations help solve structural problems caused by land fragmentation. The FAO classifies the impacts of land consolidation at three levels: firstly, there is the micro-level, where land consolidation aims at changing the farm structure. Secondly, there is the meso-level where land consolidation has broader aims of changing rural communities by improving the infrastructure, the natural environment, and the management of natural resources, landscape and, consequently, the spatial distribution of economic activities. Finally, there is the macro-level where the focus is on changes which can positively affect the whole country by reducing the disparities between rural and urban areas. Therefore, one of the advantages arising from the implementation of consolidations should be positive socio-economic changes in rural areas, resulting from the implementation of agricultural land consolidations. In this study, the Authors took on an assessment of the effects of consolidations at the meso-level. Another aim of the study was to identify the effects of consolidations on changes in socio-economic development of rural areas. A question was raised as to whether there is a correlation between the rate of changes in socio-economic development of rural areas and the implementation of agricultural land consolidations in this area.

Keywords: Agricultural land consolidations; Level of socio-economic development; Rate of changes in socio-economic conditions; Feedback; Rural areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.09.015

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