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Ranwedzi, Emmanuel Ndivhuho. "The potential and limits of the proactive land acquisition strategy: land reform implementation in Gauteng province of South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4490.
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Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)Land reform in South Africa emerged as one of the important policies for reconciliation, reconstruction and development of the country after years of racial segregation. Its implementation has been three-fold i.e. land restitution, redistribution and tenure reform. The initial sub-programmes of land redistribution i.e. Settlement Land Acquisition Grant (SLAG) and Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) have been confronted with numerous challenges and they have been criticised for influencing group owned projects due to their grant funding models. SLAG required beneficiaries to qualify as households and its failure to date has been largely attributed to unresolved conflicts amongst group members. Under LRAD, although beneficiaries qualified as individuals, the number of grants continued to be challenged by the increasing land prices, and as a result, group-owned projects continued to be created to match the land prices. Both models were demand-driven under the ‘willing buyer, willing seller’ principle. In 2006, government introduced a new model called the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (PLAS) which is a ‘supply-driven’ model but operating within the ‘willing buyer, willing seller’ principle. The structural changes introduced in 2010 placed PLAS as the sole land acquisition model under land redistribution. This research investigates the manner in which the implementation of this model assisted to resolve the gaps identified in its predecessors and the reasons thereof. Additionally, the research also investigates characteristics which persisted throughout and why such features persisted. The policy shift from a ‘demand-driven’ to a ‘supply-driven’ model has brought changes in terms of planning, implementation and resource mobilization. To achieve this, the researcher identified three cases where indepth research was conducted, and interviewed key roles placers from the national and provincial departments, and the local municipality. A questionnaire and semi-structures interviews were used to collect the data.
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Kuusaana, Elias Danyi [Verfasser]. "Large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural investments in Ghana - implications for land markets and smallholder farmers / Elias Danyi Kuusaana." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1118720628/34.
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Braide, Tamunotonye Mayowa. "Determinants of agricultural credit acquisition for the Land Bank of South Africa : case study of smallholder farmers in peri-urban areas of Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1730.
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Thesis (M.Sc.(Agricultural Economics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2015Capital is one of the most important factors of production. In South Africa, among other things, lack of finance is one of the fundamental problems hampering production, productivity and income of rural farm households. Smallholder farmers in South Africa face many challenges in accessing financial services, despite the numerous reforms undertaken by the government to transform smallholder agriculture and improve its contribution to rural income, food security and employment. Many rural farmers have remained in poverty with limited capacity to access means of production like credit to militate against hunger and poverty. The aim of the study was to analyse the determinants of loan acquisition from the Land Bank of South Africa by smallholder farmers in peri-urban areas of Mopani District in Limpopo province. The objectives were to identify the constraints smallholder farmers face in accessing credit, to analyse the determinants of loan acquisition among smallholder farmers and to profile loan acquisitions of the farmers based on their socio-economic characteristics. The study used primary data, which was collected through a field survey. The method that was used to collect information was face-to-face interviews using structured questionnaires. The study employed the snowball sampling technique in its data collection strategy due to the fact that the population size was unknown due to the sensitivity of the study. Smallholder farmers were classified as beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Land Bank. The total sample size comprised 62 smallholder farmers from the peri-urban areas of Tzaneen and Giyani of Mopani District, Limpopo province. The data was captured into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Principal component analysis was carried out so as to get the principal factors or new uncorrelated variables that affect the ability of smallholder farmers to access credit from the Land bank and it was also use to profile the farmers according to the socio-economic variables. After carrying out the principal component analysis, probit analysis was then used to determine the relationship between the socio-economic characteristics of smallholder farmers and their ability to access credit. The principal component analysis (PCA) extracted important information from the data table and expressed the information as a set of new orthogonal variables called principal components. The PCA reduced the original variables to six (6) principal components. The six (6) principal components were labelled as; component 1 (Old-experience smallholder farmers), component 2 (business-oriented smallholder farmers), component 3 (part-time smallholder farmers), component 4 (smallholder farmers who receive grants based on gender), component 5 (smallholder farmers with fixed assets and their distance to the nearest town) and component 6 (smallholder farmers who belong to cooperatives). The smallholder farmers where classified and ranked into this six components based on their level of accessibility to agricultural credit from the Land Bank. A majority of the smallholder farmers involved in the study were ranked lowly on their level of accessibility to agricultural credit from the Land Bank; they were classified under the old and experienced smallholder farmers. Probit regression result indicated that the variables gender, education, farm income, pension, land size, cooperative, fixed assets and registered business had a significant positive influence on smallholder farmers’ accessing agricultural credit from the Land Bank in the last three years. In addition, marital status, farming experience, off-farm income, loose assets, farm commodity and farm record had an insignificant positive influence. The probit result also showed that the variables age had a significant negative influence on smallholder farmers’ accessing agricultural credit. In addition, household size, employment, distance to the nearest town and farmers’ association had an insignificant negative influence. Based on the results of the study, it is recommended that the government and other institutions could design agricultural credit programmes that are promptly responsive to the needs of the smallholdCapital is one of the most important factors of production. In South Africa, among other things, lack of finance is one of the fundamental problems hampering production, productivity and income of rural farm households. Smallholder farmers in South Africa face many challenges in accessing financial services, despite the numerous reforms undertaken by the government to transform smallholder agriculture and improve its contribution to rural income, food security and employment. Many rural farmers have remained in poverty with limited capacity to access means of production like credit to militate against hunger and poverty. The aim of the study was to analyse the determinants of loan acquisition from the Land Bank of South Africa by smallholder farmers in peri-urban areas of Mopani District in Limpopo province. The objectives were to identify the constraints smallholder farmers face in accessing credit, to analyse the determinants of loan acquisition among smallholder farmers and to profile loan acquisitions of the farmers based on their socio-economic characteristics. The study used primary data, which was collected through a field survey. The method that was used to collect information was face-to-face interviews using structured questionnaires. The study employed the snowball sampling technique in its data collection strategy due to the fact that the population size was unknown due to the sensitivity of the study. Smallholder farmers were classified as beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Land Bank. The total sample size comprised 62 smallholder farmers from the peri-urban areas of Tzaneen and Giyani of Mopani District, Limpopo province. The data was captured into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Principal component analysis was carried out so as to get the principal factors or new uncorrelated variables that affect the ability of smallholder farmers to access credit from the Land bank and it was also use to profile the farmers according to the socio-economic variables. After carrying out the principal component analysis, probit analysis was then used to determine the relationship between the socio-economic characteristics of smallholder farmers and their ability to access credit. ii The principal component analysis (PCA) extracted important information from the data table and expressed the information as a set of new orthogonal variables called principal components. The PCA reduced the original variables to six (6) principal components. The six (6) principal components were labelled as; component 1 (Old-experience smallholder farmers), component 2 (business-oriented smallholder farmers), component 3 (part-time smallholder farmers), component 4 (smallholder farmers who receive grants based on gender), component 5 (smallholder farmers with fixed assets and their distance to the nearest town) and component 6 (smallholder farmers who belong to cooperatives). The smallholder farmers where classified and ranked into this six components based on their level of accessibility to agricultural credit from the Land Bank. A majority of the smallholder farmers involved in the study were ranked lowly on their level of accessibility to agricultural credit from the Land Bank; they were classified under the old and experienced smallholder farmers. Probit regression result indicated that the variables gender, education, farm income, pension, land size, cooperative, fixed assets and registered business had a significant positive influence on smallholder farmers’ accessing agricultural credit from the Land Bank in the last three years. In addition, marital status, farming experience, off-farm income, loose assets, farm commodity and farm record had an insignificant positive influence. The probit result also showed that the variables age had a significant negative influence on smallholder farmers’ accessing agricultural credit. In addition, household size, employment, distance to the nearest town and farmers’ association had an insignificant negative influence. Based on the results of the study, it is recommended that the government and other institutions could design agricultural credit programmes that are promptly responsive to the needs of the smallholder farmers. It was also recommended that the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) should ensure that the agricultural extension officers are well equipped to be able to disseminate their information to farmers irrespective of their location
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Eskehed, Frida. "Jordförvärvslagen : Uppfylls syftet vid Jordbruksverkets och länsstyrelsens prövning?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Samhällsbyggnad, GIS, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26838.
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Land that are used for agricultural purpose in Sweden are taxed by the 100-series. The land acquisition law can regulate acquisitions of agricultural land and permits are needed for acquisition. Land located in sparsely populated areas, land in areas with poor farm layout (omarronderingsområde) and purchases made by legal persons from natural person are covered by the law. Permits are applied for at county agencies and the Swedish Board of Agriculture depending of the size of the acquisition. The aim with the study is to enlighten the difficulties among permits by the law. The research questions; How is the aim with the law fulfilled by the way it is carried out?and Are there differences between permits given by the county agencies and the Swedish Board of Agriculture?, was answered by using juridical method, studies of permit documents and interviews. The juridical method enlightened the aim with the law. The study of permit documents was used to see similarities in the permits. Documents were studied from the Swedish Board of Agriculture and three county agencies. The authorities and three interest groups was interviewed two answer both the research questions. The result shows that the largest difficulties to make decisions about permits are with acquisitions made by legal persons. Especially when permits are given for special reasons (6§ 2 st. 4p.). The interviews showed that there are doubts about if a control of acquisitions in primarily sparsely populated areas leads to higher employment and settlements in those areas. Is also shown that there is a difference in how the authorities make decisions about permits. Primarily shown by statements from the county agencies to the Swedish Board of Agriculture. Two conclusions can be made. The aim with the law is not fulfilled as the law is carried out today. The aim regarding legal persons is fulfilled partly or fully but it is most difficult to make decisions about permits. The aims about sparsely populated areas and areas with poor farm layout are not fulfilled as the law is carried out. There is a difference in the decision making about permits between the authorities in the study. Is primarily shown in the cases that are handed over to the Swedish Board of Agriculture and cases regarding specific reasons.Mark som används för jordbruk i Sverige taxeras som lantbruksenheter enligt Skatteverkets 100-serie. Förvärv av lantbruksenheter kan omfattas av jordförvärvslagen och kräver då förvärvstillstånd. Lantbruksenheter som ligger i glesbygdsområden, omarronderingsområden eller där förvärven sker från en fysisk person till en juridisk person omfattas. Tillstånden söks hos länsstyrelsen eller Jordbruksverket beroende på förvärvets storlek. Syftet med studien är att belysa de svårigheter som finns kring förvärvstillstånd. Frågeställningarna i studien: Hur uppfylls syftena som finns med JFL i och med tillämpningen av den?och Finns det skillnader i bedömning av prövning gällande förvärvstillstånd som prövats av länsstyrelsen och Jordbruksverket och i så fall vilka?, besvarades genom juridisk metod, studie av beslut och intervjuer. Den juridiska metoden belyste syftet med jordförvärvslagen. Studien av beslut användes för att se likheter och skillnader mellan myndigheternas beslutsfattande. Beslut begärdes ut från Jordbruksverket och tre länsstyrelser. Myndigheterna samt tre intresseorganisationer intervjuades. De syftade till att visa om syftet med jordförvärvslagen uppfylls samt om någon skillnad finns mellan myndigheternas beslut. Resultatet visar att de största svårigheterna kring att fatta beslut enligt jordförvärvslagen är kring juridiska personers förvärv. Speciellt enligt punkten särskilda skäl (6§ 2 st. 4 p.). Intervjuerna visade att det finns tveksamheter kring om en kontroll att förvärv i främst glesbygd leder till en ökad sysselsättning och bosättning i glesbygd. Resultatet visar även att det finns en skillnad i hur Jordbruksverket och länsstyrelserna beslutar. Det visar sig främst de yttranden som länsstyrelsen överlämnar till Jordbruksverket. Från studien kan två slutsatser dras. Syftena med jordförvärvslagen uppfylls inte i sin helhet som lagen tillämpas idag. Syftet gällande juridiska personers förvärv uppfylls helt eller delvis men tillämpningen och besluten är svårast. Glesbygds- och omarronderingssyftet tycks inte uppfyllas som lagen tillämpas idag. Det finns en skillnad i hur Jordbruksverket och länsstyrelserna beslutar gällande jordförvärv. Skillnaden visar sig främst i de ärenden som överlämnas till Jordbruksverket med ett yttrande och i ärenden gällande särskilda skäl.
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Boche, Mathieu. "Contrôle du foncier, agricultures d'entreprise et restructurations agraires : une perspective critique des investissements fonciers à grande échelle : Le cas de la partie centrale du Mozambique." Thesis, Paris 11, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA111018/document.
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La demande croissante pour l’alimentation, l’énergie et les ressources naturelles, combinée à la limitation des ressources et à la libéralisation du commerce sont parmi les facteurs ayant entrainé une nouvelle « ruée sur les terres agricoles » observée depuis quelques années. Alors que certains ont exprimé des inquiétudes sur les implications potentielles de ces projets sur les droits et les moyens de subsistance des populations rurales des pays en développement, d’autres ont souligné le potentiel de ces opportunités dans la lutte pour la sécurité alimentaire et le développement rural que constituait ces annonces d’investissements dans un secteur longtemps négligé. Cette thèse interroge la complexité économique, institutionnelle et sociale des investissements fonciers à grande échelle et leur capacité à engendrer des restructurations agraires et un changement du modèle de développement agricole au Mozambique. En raison de leur fort taux d’échec et des difficultés d’implantation des projets, il apparait que les investissements fonciers à grande échelle n’ont pas entrainé une rupture dans les structures agraires locales marquée par un changement des caractéristiques des exploitations majoritairement productrices dans le secteur agricole national. En revanche, l’intérêt des investisseurs étrangers tend à influencer les autorités nationales vers une réactivation du modèle de développement agricole qui prévalait après l’Indépendance, c’est-à-dire un secteur agricole dual avec des agriculteurs familiaux marginalisés d’une part et des exploitations agricoles à grande échelle établies avec des investissements étrangers de l’autre. Ainsi, non seulement la grande majorité des agriculteurs familiaux ne bénéficient pas de la dynamique actuelle de projets d’investissement, mais les politiques agricoles et foncières et les mesures de soutien tendent à se détourner d’eux au profit de la facilitation des investissements à grande échelle. Nos résultats remettent en cause la capacité des projets actuels à enclencher une trajectoire de développement agricole capable de répondre aux défis des économies africainesThe growing demand for food, energy and natural resources, combined with the limited stock of natural resources available and the process of trade liberalization are among the factors that have triggered a new rush for land observed in the last years. Despite an extensive literature, most analyses of large scale land based investment are politically and ideologically anchored, reflecting strong opposing stances. On one hand, some have expressed some concerns on the potential implications of these projects on peasants’ land rights and livelihood. On the other hand, some other researchers have argued that these projects should be seen as opportunities in the struggle for food security and rural development. This thesis questions the economic, social and institutional complexity of large scale land based investment including their differentiated evolutionary dynamics and implications in terms of agricultural development and agrarian change in Mozambique. Because of a high failure rate and difficulties to establish the production structures, it appears that large scale land based investments haven’t led to a shift from small scale farming to large scale farming as the main farming organization in Mozambique. However, the rising interest of foreign investors tend to influence national authorities in rehabilitating the post-Independence agricultural development model, which was characterized by a dual system composed of marginalized subsistence farmers on one hand and foreign owned large scale farms. So, not only do smallholders benefit little from present agricultural investment dynamics, but also agricultural policies and support measures tend to shift away from the former towards the facilitation of large-scale investment. Our results questions the capacity of actual large scale land based investments to trigger a trajectory of agricultural development able to meet African economies challenges
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Brown, Colin David. "Pesticide movement from agricultural land." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238925.
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ASSUNCAO, JULIANO JUNQUEIRA. "AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY AND LAND POLICY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4784@1.
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UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAISSobretudo nos últimos anos, o Brasil tem intensificado as políticas de reforma agrária e combate à pobreza rural. No entanto, o debate sobre o tema tem ignorado questões importantes relacionadas à origem da concentração fundiária e à eficácia dos instrumentos adotados. A tese tem como objetivo analisar o papel de políticas públicas voltadas ao mercado de terras, considerando um critério de eficiência agrícola, em um ambiente em que (i) as pessoas adquirem terra não apenas para a produção agrícola, mas também para outras finalidades, e (ii) o mercado de arrendamento de terras não funciona adequadamente. Mostra- se que essas duas características não apenas afetam a eficiência da alocação de recursos destinados à agricultura como também têm importantes conseqüências para o desenho de políticas públicas. O capítulo 1 apresenta um modelo teórico que estabelece os princípios básicos da análise sistemática das imperfeições do mercado de terras brasileiro e suas conseqüências para a política econômica. Os capítulos 2 a 4 discutem, respectivamente, aspectos de implementação do programa de reforma agrária redistributiva, da taxação de terras e questões associadas ao mercado de arrendamento de terras. Por fim, a conclusão resume os principais resultados encontrados, as limitações e a pesquisa futura.
In the last few years, the Brazilian government has been intensifying economic policies of land reform and poverty alleviation. However, the debate about this issue has been overlooking important questions related to the land concentration and the effectiveness of the policy instruments. The aim of the dissertation is to analyze the role of such policies in an environment in which (i) land property provides non-agricultural benefits and (ii) the land rental market does not work well. The results indicate that these two characteristics not only ffect the agricultural efficiency but also the design of development policies. Chapter 1 presents a theoretical model establishing the main framework of the analysis, considering market imperfections and their consequences to the land policies. Chapters 2 to 4 discuss some issues of the implementation of three policy instruments - the land reform program, the land tax and the land rental market. The conclusion summarizes the main results of the dissertation, some limitations and the guidelines for future research.
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Dolny, Helena. "Land and agrarian reform in South Africa : land ownership, land markets and the state." Thesis, Open University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358974.
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Madramootoo, Chandra Alastair 1954. "An agricultural land drainage simulation model /." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72017.
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A deterministic computer model was developed to continuously simulate the runoff from surface and subsurface-drained fields in the St. Lawrence lowlands. The model simulates all of the major hydrologic and hydraulic processes occurring both above and below the ground. Input data requirements include hourly rainfall, daily potential evapotranspiration, soil physical properties, field dimensions, open channel geometry and drainage system specifications.Events for the years 1978 to 1982 were simulated, to compare the runoff characteristics between 20 ha, clay loam, surface-drained and subsurface-drained fields. Further simulations were conducted to examine the hydrologic effects of wide-spaced, deep, parallel field ditches.
Hydrographs for the one-in-200-year storm were also simulated. All of the simulations confirmed that the peak flow rate on the subsurface-drained field was less than that of the surface-drained field. Longer times to peak and lag times occurred on the subsurface-drained field.
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Arnberg, Søren. "Empirical studies of agricultural land allocation /." København, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/356590755.pdf.
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Moore, Michal Charles. "Planning policies and agricultural land values." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621707.
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Koyuncu, Atayil. "Acquisition Of Field Data For Agricultural Tractor." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12607237/index.pdf.
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During the operations of an agricultural tractor, front axle and front axle support encounter the worst load conditions of the whole tractor. If the design of these components is not verified by systematic engineering approach, the customers could face with sudden failures. Erkunt Agricultural Machinery
Company, which is located in Ankara, has newly designed and manufactured the front axle support of its agricultural tractors. In this study, the design of 2WD (Wheel Drive) Erkunt Bereket Agricultural Tractor’
s front axle support has been verified by developing a verification method, which involves testing the tractor on a special test track and field and together with the computer aided engineering analysis, in order to prevent such failures in the lifetime of the tractor. For this purpose, a strain gage data acquisition system has been designed to measure the strain values on the component, while the tractor is operating on a test track and field. The locations of the strain gages have been determined by simulating the selected design load cases through finite element method. Measuring the maximum strains for the front axle support that have been experienced by the tractor while operating, the stress values have been calculated and the design safety has been investigated considering the material&
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s tensile strength. Secondly, the fatigue life of the component regarding the acquired strain data has been predicted. These processes have led the company to verify the design of the front axle support.
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Fontes, Francisco Pereira. "Essays in agricultural economics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3714/.
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This thesis explores topics in Agricultural Economics and is composed of five papers. In the first paper (Chapter 2), a latent-class stochastic frontier model is used to estimate efficiency scores of farmers in Ethiopia. Compared to conventional models, which assume a unique frontier, much lower inefficiencies are found, suggesting that part of the inefficiencies uncovered in the literature could be an artefact of the methods used. The second paper (Chapter 3) revisits the link between cereal diversity and productivity using a panel dataset in Ethiopia. The results suggest that the positive effect between cereal diversity and productivity becomes much smaller when households who produce teff (a low-productivity and high-value crop) are excluded from the sample, hinting at the possibility that results could be driven by yield differentials between cereals, rather than diversity. The third paper (Chapter 4) estimates the labour impacts of the adoption of Soil and Water Conservation technologies (SWC) in Ethiopia. The results suggest that adopting SWC technologies leads to an increase in adult and child labour. Understanding the labour impacts is important in itself, but it also raises concerns about using impact evaluation methods that require no change in inputs as an identifying assumption of impacts. Paper 4 (Chapter 5), assesses the pertinence of a drought index that has recently been proposed in the literature by Yu and Babcock (2010) and argues that it defines drought too narrowly. An extension to this index is proposed and we show, using a dataset of Indian districts, that the original index is likely to underestimate the impacts of drought. In Paper 5 (Chapter 6), we identify data-driven ranges of rainfall for which the marginal effects of a rainfall-temperature index (RTI) are different and then we discuss how the impacts of drought have changed over the 1966-2009 period in India. Finally, Chapter 7 concludes.
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吳建城 and Kin-shing Ng. "Land acquisition for urban renewal and urban design by Land Development Corporation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980260.
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Ng, Kin-shing. "Land acquisition for urban renewal and urban design by Land Development Corporation." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25796938.
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Shourie, Shiva. "Land Grabbing : Media discourses on land acquisition in India and by India." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-345986.
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To this day, land is a source of survival for billions of people around the globe. However, industrialization and the rush for natural resources has immensely commodified land. As colonialization in the past was based on the violent and forceful confiscation of lands, modern day colonialism called as neo-colonialism, operates by the domination of powerful countries over less-developed countries through economic or political influence and control. Hence, land stealing popularly known as land grabbing, in modern times is done most of the times by the native governments themselves for the national and international capitalists by adopting the strategy of neo-liberalism which in simpler terms, supports privatization by allowing freedom of trade, capital and investments. Land grabbing over the last couple of years has come under utmost scrutiny as it has impacted millions of rural people in Asia and Africa. Nonetheless, this study does not aim to examine the phenomenon of land grabbing itself rather focuses on exploring how two countries- India and Ethiopia, affected by land grabbing are presented by the media. A total number of twenty-five news articles are analysed by using discourse analysis as the method, and discourse, ideology and postcolonial theory as the theoretical framework. The results drawn from the articles showed that the media presented the issue in a bold manner by unveiling the darker side of the governments and capitalism. The study served the purpose as well as the aim of comprehending the media´s understanding of the phenomenon and the entities involved in it.
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Aleknavičius, Marius. "Modeling the evolution of agricultural land markets." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20071204_101606-14316.
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This is a summary of doctoral dissertation. Dissertation represents analysis of agricultural land markets development. The analysis was performed by proposing a complex analytical model system and applying it for the investigation of land market development and evolution in Lithuania.Tai yra daktaro disertacijos santrauka. Disertacijoje pateikiama žemės ūkio paskirties žemės rinkų raidos analizė, pagal apžvelgtą teorinę medžiagą pasiūlant kompleksinę tyrimų schemą ir pritaikant ją Lietuvos žemės rinkos kūrimuisi ir vystymuisi tirti.
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Hackwell, Stuart G. "Verification of an agricultural land drainage model." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61699.
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Bishop, Jennifer M. "Agricultural land tenure : environmental principles and practice." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249885.
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Sheikh-Hassani, G. H. "Agricultural land use change in Gilan, Iran." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382182.
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Barretto, Alberto Giaroli de Oliveira Pereira. "Agricultural land-use expansion dynamics in Brazil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11140/tde-28032013-110939/.
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Brazil is one of the most important global agricultural players. In the last decades, agricultural production has increased drastically as a result of expansion in area and productivity growth, which made Brazil a worldwide leading producer of beef, soybean, sugar, ethanol broiler and coffee. The difficulties of world stock renewal and the sharp consumption increase especially of grains such as corn, soybean and wheat result in favorable conditions for agricultural leading regions to continue increasing production. However, there is a lack of evidence-based research at large scale that address complex land-use changes dynamics related to agricultural growth of area and productivity. The purpose of this thesis is to approach controversial or under-investigated key-points of this central issue by using spatial modeling and open access databases. First, the availability of areas suitable for cropland expansion was estimated trough a spatially explicit model at national scale. Second, the effects of productivity changes on area changes were investigated both for pasture and cropland by a long-term retrospective spatial analysis that covered the period 1960-2006. Third, a comprehensive and effective spatial model using key variables was developed to identify the Brazilian agricultural frontier. Forth, the relationship between deforestation, cropland expansion and pasture expansion was analyzed in the Legal Amazon region and evidences for a better understanding of causal-effect relation in land-use change were suggested. The assembly of papers led to the following main findings: (i) Brazil has a huge amount of land covered by pastures (122 million hectares) with suitable biophysical conditions for intensive crop production; (ii) Historically, there is a clear distinction in landuse dynamics between agriculturally consolidated areas and the agricultural frontier. In agriculturally consolidated areas, cropland yield increases have been associated with pasture intensification and stability or contraction in total farmland area. In contrast, in agricultural frontier areas, cropland yield increases have been associated with agricultural expansion; (iii) Spatial examination of land use transitions since 1960 illustrates the expansion and gradual movement of the agricultural frontier towards the inland of Brazil. However, it also suggests the possible initiation of a reversed trend, i.e. agricultural contraction, in steep areas of the Southeast within the Atlantic Forest biome, which might be in line with the Forest Transition theory (FT); (iv) In Legal Amazon during 2000-2009, cattle population growth, cropland expansion and deforestation were in general concurrent at the municipal level, suggesting a need for modifying the widespread notion of cropland expansion in consolidated regions as a prime causal factor of indirect deforestation through displacement of pastures from these regions to frontier regions.O Brasil tem uma importante atuação na agricultura mundial. Nas últimas décadas, a produção agrícola tem aumentado intensamente como resultado da expansão tanto em área quanto em produtividade, levando o Brasil a se tornar um produtor líder mundial de carne bovina, soja, açúcar, frango e café. As dificuldades de renovação de estoques mundiais e o aumento acentuado do consumo, especialmente de grãos tais como milho, soja e trigo resultam em condições favoráveis para as principais regiões agrícolas continuarem aumentando a produção. No entanto, há uma falta de pesquisas com base empírica em grande escala que abordem a complexa dinâmica das mudanças no uso da terra relacionadas ao crescimento agrícola de área e de produtividade. O objetivo deste trabalho é abordar os controversos ou pouco investigados pontos essenciais desta questão central por meio de modelagem espacial e bases de dados de acesso aberto. Em primeiro lugar, a disponibilidade de áreas adequadas para a expansão da lavoura foi estimada por meio de um modelo espacialmente explícito em escala nacional. Em seguida, os efeitos das mudanças de produtividade sobre as mudanças de área foram investigados tanto para pastagem e agricultura através de uma análise espacial retrospectiva de longo prazo que abrangeu o período de 1960 a 2006. Posteriormente, um modelo espacial eficaz utilizando variáveischave de levantamento periódico por órgãos oficiais foi desenvolvido para identificar a fronteira agrícola brasileira. Por fim, foi analisada a relação entre desmatamento, expansão da lavoura e expansão da pastagem na região da Amazônia Legal e foram sugeridas evidências para um melhor entendimento da relação entre causa e efeito na mudança do uso da terra. O conjunto de artigos conduziu às seguintes principais conclusões: (i) O Brasil tem uma enorme quantidade de terras cobertas por pastagens (122 milhões de hectares) com condiçoes favoráveis para produção intensiva de culturas agrícolas anuais. (ii) Historicamente, há uma distinção clara na dinâmica de uso da terra entre as áreas agriculturáveis já consolidadas e a fronteira agrícola. Em áreas agrícolas consolidadas, aumentos na produtividade têm sido associados à intensificação de pastagens e à estabilidade ou a diminuição da área agrícola total. Por outro lado, em áreas de fronteira agrícola, o aumento na produtividade tem sido associado com a expansão agrícola. (iii) A análise espacial de transições de uso da terra desde 1960 ilustra a expansão e o movimento gradual da fronteira agrícola em direção ao interior do Brasil. No entanto, também sugere a possível abertura de uma tendência inversa, ou seja, contração agrícola em áreas íngremes do Sudeste dentro do bioma Mata Atlântica, que pode estar de acordo com a teoria da transição florestal (FT). (iv) Na Amazônia Legal, entre 2000 e 2009, crescimento do efetivo bovino, a expansão da agricultura e o desmatamento aconteceram, em geral, de forma silmultânea nos municípios, sugerindo a necessidade de modificar a noção generalizada da expansão de áreas cultiváveis em regiões consolidadas como um fator primordial para o desmatamento indireto por meio do deslocamento de pastagens dessas regiões para regiões de fronteira agrícola.
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Weber, Norbert, and Matthias Meyer. "Land availability for sustainable agricultural tree crops." Adjacent Digital Politics Ltd, 2021. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A73975.
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Prof Dr Norbert Weber from TU Dresden argues that land availability for sustainable agricultural tree crops and a positive perception of this by the official administration both remain challenging hurdles.
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Lungu, John. "Land tenure and agricultural development in Zambia." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1994. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU072315.
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Zambia has since independence experienced a decline in per-capita food production. Among the assumed causes of this decline are land tenure relations. This thesis has discussed the relationship between land tenure systems and agricultural development. It has considered the effects of this relationship on productivity, investment and employment generation. It demonstrates that the prevalence of traditional land tenure systems in the rural areas is inconsistent with the rule structures of modern institutions providing credit, marketing, input supply and extension. The thesis however, recognizes that a reform of these land tenure institutions is not a panacea to agricultural productivity unless accompanied by the provision of agricultural services. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part sets out the philosophy of the research, the theoretical framework and provides background and illustrative information on the relationship between land tenure reform and agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. This part also sets out the historical, economic and political context to land tenure reform in Zambia both in the colonial and post-colonial periods. The second part discusses the case study of Petauke District. In this exposition, the effects of tenure on agricultural productivity, investment and employment creation are examined by analyzing primary data concerning access to credit, marketing, input supply and extension services. In organising chapters 4 to 8 concerning sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia and the case study of Petauke district, the thesis utilized the structure and agency philosophical framework. The explanation of the relationship between land tenure and agricultural development however, employed institutional models developed by both economists and planners.
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Fish, Chelsea Ann. "Land Acquisition for Special Economic Zones in India." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/110377.
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This study is an exploration of land acquisition for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India. Land acquisition has become one of the most well known problems confronting the SEZ policy and other policies that encourage private investment in infrastructure. Land acquisition for SEZs has caused widespread popular mobilizations and resistance, which have in turn led to cost overruns, delays, and project failures. This study examines India's land acquisition framework, particularly the evolution of the Land Acquisition Act 1894, in order to understand the factors contributing to acquisition problems when the state uses its power of eminent domain, as well as when private developers attempt to acquire land through consensual market transactions. It uses two SEZs spanning over 14,000 hectares of land near Mumbai--Navi Mumbai SEZ and Mumbai SEZ--as cases through which to examine the land acquisition process.
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Krishnan, Eesvan. "Land acquisition in British India, c. 1894-1927." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ba0652b-70b0-4407-ba85-14eddebdbcb6.
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This study offers the first instalment of a general history of land acquisition in British India, c. 1894–1927. It advances eight principal theses: (i) that the first law of land acquisition was enacted in 1668, as part of a political settlement by the East India Company with the Portuguese landlords of Bombay island; (ii) that, to a remarkable degree, land acquisition law was shaped in the interest of the sterling railway companies; (iii) that the state habitually used land acquisition not so much to effect non- consensual transfers but to ‘launder’ titles free of encumbrances and other claims; (iv) that the primary beneficiaries of land acquisition were public bodies, the sterling railway companies, and elite private interests; (v) that the executive was hostile to legislative and judicial oversight of land acquisition, and successfully resisted or co-opted attempts to impose such oversight; (vi) that the courts were in any event content with the role they were assigned under the 1894 Act, and generally deferred to the executive in land acquisition cases; (vii) that the land-acquiring executive, although hostile to and unencumbered by meaningful legislative and judicial oversight, as a general rule displayed a legal fastidiousness; (viii) that, despite an appearance of impartiality, land acquisition bore the stain of imperialism. These theses are advanced in the course of explaining the failure of the forgotten Kelkar Bill (1927), an attempt by the Maharashtrian nationalist N. C. Kelkar (1872–1947) to enact far-reaching amendments to the Land Acquisition Act 1894. Kelkar’s fellow nationalists withheld their open support from the measure and thereby guaranteed its failure: a counterintuitive choice that, it is argued, exemplifies the tactical compromises of nationalism.
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Skuras, Dimitrios G. "Land mobility in Greek agriculture." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277593.
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This thesis originated from the need to acquire some understanding of land mobility because of its importance for the creation of future policies to reform Greek agriculture. The aims of the present study are: A. To examine the factors influencing a young rural boy to enter agriculture (chapter 2). B. To examine the factors influencing the decision to expand the farm (chapter 3). C. To study the different methods used for land acquisition at first installation and expansion (chapter 4). D. To examine in a comparative perspective the factors influencing the choice of method of land acquisition (chapter 5). E. To study the process of future succession and its characteristics in Greek agriculture, and assess its importance for land mobility (chapter 6). F. To examine the factors influencing the decision to dispose of land as well as the methods chosen or envisaged (chapter 7). G. To examine the implications of different existing and proposed socio-structural policy measures on land mobility (chapter 8). The life cycle of a farmer and his farm was the basic theme around which the research was structured. The most significant of all factors affecting land mobility proved to be farm size, which was shown to influence a range of different decisions in a farmer's career. It is noticeable that throughout this survey, farm size and farm income as expressed by the measure of Standard Gross Margin (SGM), reacted in the same way to other variables. In this sense farm income is, on average, proportional to farm size and the two variables may be used interchangeably. Apart from farm size, land mobility is greatly influenced by the type of community the respondent lives in. Spatial variations in land mobility have been detected in different areas throughout this survey. Demographic factors also influence mobility in Greek agriculture. In addition to the aforementioned economic and demographic factors, the influence of social and traditional factors must also be stressed. Low levels of education and strong rural traditions still dominate the transfer of land. Three main groups of factors which influence land mobility have then been isolated, namely, economic, demographic and social. The implications of these findings for agricultural policy were then discussed. Land mobility should be increased and directed towards achieving the policy aims of creating larger modernised farms and a younger age structure of the agricultural population. It is concluded that agricultural policy has tremendous potential for manipulating land mobility but that current EEC policy does not provide enough measures and is not applied in the right way. It must be amended in order to include activities closely linked to land mobility, such as land purchase and modify its policy in favour of part-time farmers in certain mountainous and less-favoured areas following the findings of this and other works.
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Dyner, Suzanne Shoshana. "The Effect of Utah Population Growth on Conversion of Agricultural Land to Residential Land." DigitalCommons@USU, 1986. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4101.
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Land resources are essential to the production of many goods and services, including food, fiber, housing, and recreation. Often, these alternate uses are thought to be incompatible, and the conventional wisdom holds that in a place such as Utah, where rapid population growth is occurring near farming activities, at least some agricultural land must be converted to developed uses. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strength of the relationship between population growth and change in farmland, especially cropland, in Utah.
Theoretically, population growth has been assumed to affect the amount of land in agricultural use. An empirical model is formulated to explain changes in the quantity of various types of agricultural land as a function of four hypothesized explanatory variables, one of which is the percentage change in population.
The conclusion reached is that population growth is not statistically related to changes in the amount of land in agriculture in Utah. Although some land at the urban fringes is converted to developed uses every year, it is replaced in other locations by new farmland . Therefore, the increase in population that resulted in some cropland conversion is not directly related to the change in cropland. Moreover, none of the other explanatory variables are consistently related. Even in a hypothetical "worst-case" scenario, in which all future development is assumed to take place on cropland, little of Utah's cropland would be lost by the year 2000. If Utah state and local planners desire to encourage retention of land in agriculture, further study should be directed towards finding the relevant explanatory variables, and policies should be based on an understanding of the significant relationships.
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Ndengu, Musa. "Land reform in Kenya." Thesis, University of East London, 2000. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3578/.
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This research investigates the effectiveness of land reform in Kenya in relation to its stated policy aims of improving farm productivity through case studies of three districts where land reform has been implemented. One was an area with dense population and predominant customary form of land tenure (Kakamega); another one had the most recent land reform programme - group-ranching system (Kajiado); and the third had an early land reform acclaimed as a success within the former 'white highlands (Trans Nzoia). Although many studies on land reform suggest that collateral is one of the common ways of funding agricultural development, this was found to be defective as it does not test the borrower's ability to repay the loan, encourages excessive borrowing, and repayment schedules are often not realistic. For many farmers, the use of land as collateral depended on their ability to process title deeds; financial institutions to lend money; no market distortions/information asymmetry; and absence of cultural restrictions. We have also demonstrated that how land rights are assigned and the land tenure security determines households ability to generate income, their social and economic status, incentives to make investments, and a farmer's ability to access financial markets. Creation of land board committees in Kenya composed of local elders for resolving land disputes was aimed at increasing their (elders) involvement leading to decisions that reflected community wishes. Our findings were that on average, about 70 per cent of such decisions on land disputes were upheld by courts of appeal on technicalities because land boards lack a sufficient basis in law and there was no training programme for the members. Group ownership of land with shared possession and communal decision making on its administration hardly existed in the case study areas but was used to foster unity, address social needs, and provided a mechanism for disbursing inequalities in ability, knowledge and wealth. On gender issues and land tenure, the need for increased tenure security to women was found not be enough for their participation in the land market without access to credit, information, and appropriate technologies. This research has proposed an improved system of managing land reforms based upon an analysis of existing land record system, and formulated an alternative address referencing system.
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Jimenez, Jorge Rodrigo. "Aerosol characterization for agricultural field burning smoke." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2006/j_jimenez_091406.pdf.
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Haycock, Nicholas Euan. "Riparian land as buffer zones in agricultural catchments." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359498.
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黃梅 and Mui Christina Wong. "Agricultural land use planning and management in Guangdong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259315.
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Khan, Rashid Ahmad. "Ecology and conservation of francolins in agricultural land." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265211.
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Wong, Mui Christina. "Agricultural land use planning and management in guangdong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18153604.
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Bixby, Mark Llewellyn. "Agricultural land pricing model for the Imperial Valley." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64526.
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Chamberlain, Lauren. "The Power Law Distribution of Agricultural Land Size." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7400.
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This paper demonstrates that the distribution of county level agricultural land size in the United States is best described by a power-law distribution, a distribution that displays extremely heavy tails. This indicates that the majority of farmland exists in the upper tail. Our analysis indicates that the top 5% of agricultural counties account for about 25% of agricultural land between 1997-2012. The power-law distribution of farm size has important implications for the design of more efficient regional and national agricultural policies as counties close to the mean account for little of the cumulative distribution of total agricultural land. This has consequences for more efficient management and government oversight as a disruption in one of the counties containing a large amount of farmland (due to natural disasters, for instance) could have nationwide consequences for agricultural production and prices. In particular, the policy makers and government agencies can monitor about 25% of total agricultural land by overseeing just 5% of counties.
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Pendell, Austin. "Factors impacting Kansas agricultural land values: 1986 - 2009." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15792.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Agricultural Economics
Kevin Dhuyvetter
Land accounts for more than 75% of a farm operation’s total assets and thus knowledge of land values are very important to landowners. However, many other parties, including lenders, appraisers, investors, and researchers also have significant interest in land markets. Over the past few decades, land prices in Kansas have increased significantly for many different reasons. The main objective of this research is to estimate the impact of various factors on Kansas land values using a hedonic regression model. In cooperation with the Property Valuation Department (PVD) of the Kansas Department of Revenue, farmland market transactions from 1986 to 2009 were obtained for this study. Hedonic models were estimated using Ordinary Least Squares to determine the impact of interest rates, urban areas, location, parcel size, and income on nominal and real Kansas land values. The estimated nominal and real models explained 24.1% and 17.2% of the variation in land prices, respectively, and the results from this study are generally consistent with previous research. This research went further into investigating the relationship between PVD data and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) surveyed data. Results from this study indicate that USDA surveys significantly underestimate the true market for land prices across Kansas.
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Clement, Cathie. "Australia's north-west : a study of exploration, land policy and land acquisition, 1644-1884." Murdoch University, 1991. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070905.104718.
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The thesis analyses the continuum of European activity that preceded establishment of an effective pastoral industry in Australia's north-west. Two strands - physical activity and evolution of legislation - are interwoven, examining growth in geographical knowledge, proposals for colonisation and the outcome of interplay between government officials and landholders over land policy.
Growth in geographical knowledge gave rise to colonisation proposals from 1828. The thesis relates these proposals to events affecting northern Australia to show that promotion and occupation of north-west lands constituted an integral part of the outgrowth of colonial settlement in Australia.
Europeans occupied the north-west in two waves, abortively during the 1860s and continuously from 1879. The existing literature identifies these waves but provides inadequate analysis of events to 1884. The thesis fills this gap by showing that land hunger, misinformation, land speculation, manipulation of legislation and exploitation of political power for private commercial gain determined the shape of north-west settlement. Moreover, by relating land policy to tenure and occupation, it shows that private individuals influenced land policy and impeded official plans for rapid settlement. Thus, the thesis provides a fresh perspective not only on the prelude to effective pastoral settlement in the north-west but on the management of Western Australia's outlying lands in the period before responsible government.
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Carpenter, Leah J. "Tracking the Land: Ojibwe Land Tenure and Acquisition at Grand Portage and Leech Lake." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195391.
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This case study examines the land tenure histories of the Grand Portage and Leech Lake Bands of Ojibwe to determine how historical events inform their contemporary land acquisition strategies. The standardized federal Indian policy time periods frames this effort to track the amount of reservation land held in Ojibwe trust ownership over time while analyzing the local impact of those policies upon land tenure and acquisition. The Grand Portage and Leech Lake Bands are members of the confederated Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and this Band-level unit of analysis illuminates variations in land tenure patterns and acquisition strategies experienced within a common tribal identity. The Grand Portage Band has been remarkably successful and over 80% of that territory is under Ojibwe trust ownership, while only 5% of the Leech Lake Reservation is in Ojibwe trust ownership. The Grand Portage Band has utilized conventional and creative strategies for land acquisition. For example, the Band secured an expansion of their reservation boundary in 1982, and later acquired the Grand Portage State Park. The Leech Lake Band has experienced a harsher land tenure history as their reservation lands have been, and remain, a much more contested territory. The Chippewa National Forest was superimposed upon that reservation territory, which has effectively created a federal monopoly on land ownership and which serves as a major obstacle to effective land acquisition by the Leech Lake Band today. Other obstacles include bureaucratic inertia and state and local opposition.The emergent tribal land acquisition strategies are land purchases, as well as the purchase of fractionated trust ownership interests, negotiations with local and state governments for land exchanges, the transfer of federal "surplus lands," and pursuit of special legislation or executive orders. Furthermore, Indian land tenure and acquisition remains an important aspect of the contemporary federal trust responsibility, although weakened in practice. The federal trust responsibility must be revitalized in order to become an effective method for tribal land acquisition. The Indian land tenure reality today is that most tribes endure insufficient and inadequate tribal territories as a result of federal Indian policies, which has prompted many to prioritize land acquisition.
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Bose, Sayoni. "The Messy Politics of Land Acquisition in West Bengal." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437580805.
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Gluszak, Michal. "Land acquisition in development projects: investment value and risks." Institut für Regional- und Umweltwirtschaft, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2008. http://epub.wu.ac.at/980/1/document.pdf.
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The aim of the article is to discuss the main problems in land-development activity. The study focuses on land acquisition problem. In the article we describe possible implications of difference between real estate market and investment value, and enumerate major sources of investment risk. (author´s abstract)Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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Makhwaje, Ernest N. "Strategic planning of agricultural land information systems in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1113.
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Thesis (PhD(Agric) (Agricultural Economics))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.The planning processes involved in the design and development of strategic land information systems in a semantic context require a logical approach. An array of efficacy problems associated with the relevance of the information required and the data to be provided must be dealt with in terms of this logical approach so that wise decisions can be made about future land resource use options. This study applies the aforementioned statement to strategic decision-making regarding information management in the provision of accurate and relevant information about the characteristics of the land resource for use by both the public and private sectors in South Africa. With ever evolving human needs that increase pressure on the limited land resource, the need for accurate and relevant information for strategic purposes is increasing. However, even at the present time, land information systems design and development is characterised by a technical design orientation and a narrow cost-efficiency focus, with a lack of strategic envisioning. Strategic decisions require effective choices regarding what data should be collected and how this should be stored and processed to support landresource- use decisions in the future. Information systems can, however, not cater for too many variables due to cost implications. Hence, strategic choices in generating only the required information and data for storage and processing become necessary.
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Mutema, Maxwell. "Land rights and their impacts on agricultural efficiency, investments and land markets in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415515.
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Diederich, Stefan [Verfasser]. "Land und Industrialisierung in Indien : Langlebigkeit und Wandel des Land Acquisition Act (1894) / Stefan Diederich." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1106340884/34.
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Li, Yee-wa Cathy. "Agricultural land in Hong Kong : a solution space for urban development /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1990616X.
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Peyrow, Farzad. "Field testing of an agricultural land drainage computer model." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66172.
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Kaufmann, Manfred. "Multi criteria evaluation of land restoration for agricultural use /." Zürich : ETH, 2008. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=17744.
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Xu, Wei. "Agricultural land use change in relation to agroecosystem health." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq27473.pdf.
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Patterson, Katherine Liza. "Wealth accounts for agricultural land : a hedonic pricing approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0007/MQ29762.pdf.
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Hall, Barbara Ann. "Corporate Land-Holding and Agricultural Extensification in Early Mesopotamia." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/113408.
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Quigley, Andrew Douglas. "A study of tractor tyre braking on agricultural land." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1053.
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