Agriculture ; Farm ; Regional planning ; Rural area ; Settlement system ; Slovenia ; Urbanization of the countryside
Farms face spatial pressures, disagreements with the non-farming population, and accessibility restrictions especially on urban outskirts. Such a situation is the result of unsuitable spatial planning of settlements, in which farmland was included
within areas zoned for development. This article focuses on spatial limitations on farms in the settlement of Moste in the Municipality of Komenda. These were determined by using officially available spatial data and records and by using geographical
information systems. We assessed future expansion opportunities for the farms, too. - (IKR)
Etude de la mise en place en 1993 de ce plan agri-environnemental en Ontario. Largement développé par les organisations d'exploitants agricoles, le programme insiste sur la gestion des sols, la qualité de l'eau et le stockage/enlèvement des déchets
intensification of the pressure wind farms are exerting on the Polish environment. 48 assessment criteria have ultimately been proposed here, on the basis of binding legal provisions and elements of good practice in spatial planning and environmental protection
. The identification and qualification of the criteria in question as either precluding or restricting to varying degrees the founding of wind farms may be helpful where the optimization of the location planning process is concerned. – (BJ)
This paper makes a methodological proposal regarding the regional-scale (1:50,000–1:200,000) assessment of environmental conditions in respect of the locating of wind farms. The necessity for such strategic assessment reflects ongoing
Agricultural land use ; Agriculture ; Farm ; Rural area ; Rural planning ; Slovenia
Nowadays agriculture is not the only even not a dominant activity in the countryside. Unconsidered agriculture in the processes of spatial planning cause different problems to farms, such as decrease in the extent of best quality agricultural land
, spatial tightening of farms in rural settlements and obstructed traffic connections between farms and their production areas. As a result many farms are limited or obstructed in their future development. As a consequence social tensions appear, rural
identity of settlements and agricultural landscape disappears and there is less and less interest in farming under young people. - (IKR)
Changing rural development policies and planning in Zimbabwe : a comment in Regional development policies and planning in Africa.
National planning objectives are held to contain potential contradictions between the interests of commercial farming and the goal of restructuring peasant agriculture.
Agricultural policy ; Agriculture ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; Planning ; Rural development ; Rural property ; Socialism
This article is an attempt to explain how the development problems currently being experienced by farmers in the new Federal States are entwined with the 45-year history of the former GDR. - (L'A.).
Technical change, labor use, and small farmer development: evidence from Sierra Leone. A view of the Plan Puebla: an application of hierarchical decision models. Impediments to technical progress on small versus large farms.
On some aspects of structural deficiences of Italian agriculture: small farmers and non farming labour
Analyse exhaustive des insuffisances structurales de l'agriculture italienne. Après avoir souligné la diffusion généralisée des petites fermes (inférieures à 5ha), même s'il existe des écarts sensibles sur le plan régional, les AA. mettent bien en
Protecting the snow leopard and enhancing farmers' livelihoods : a pilot insurance scheme in Baltistan
Discussion of a pilot insurance plan to save the snow leopard in Balistan, a district in the Pakistani-controlled sector of Jammu and Kashmir State, while protecting farmers from predatory losses to their livestock, tipically goats. Each farmer pays
Agricultural landscape sustainability is affected by combinations of agricultural developments and various forms of urbanisation. This paper analyses how public policy, including spatial planning, has responded over time and affected these two
drivers which intersect in various ways depending on the regional context and local conditions. Using data from recent Danish studies, the paper shows how a large proportion of farmers perceive their farm more as a living place than as a production place
. Most of these farmers are hobby farmers with an urban income who have moved from an urban setting to the rural landscape. As such, these hobby farmers represent a form of urbanisation, usually termed ‘counter-urbanisation’, and they manage the landscape
differently to full-time farmers, while they also affect demand for land and thus price levels. Furthermore, long-term and recent developments in public policy as responses to changing agricultural landscapes are analysed and discussed. With a focus on counter
-urbanisation, the paper discusses how agricultural policies, environmental policies and spatial planning policies are poorly integrated and—when viewed together—fail to respond to the intersecting dynamics of agricultural developments and urbanisation
. The paper proposes a collaborative landscape planning approach to ensure policy integration and to promote agricultural landscape sustainability.
explores the synergies and conflicts that can arise between these landscape values when planning at the farm scale. The results demonstrated that it was not easy to integrate the considered landscape values in practice, though we are often asked for them
approach of landscape architects can contribute to developing multifunctional farmplans and how the design process results in farm-specific solutions.
, landscape and social aspects. In addition, relationships in the form of trade-offs between different landscape values such as biodiversity, cultural heritage, recreation and aesthetics have been little studied. This case study of a farm in southern Sweden
[b2] Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
Farm labor migrations in the Awash valley of Ethiopia
Causes des migrations rurales et formes qu'elles ont prises dans la région des hautes terres en Ethiopie et certains districts des basses terres vers la vallée de Awash où ont été mis en place divers plans d'irrigation. (GRECO 13).
Functional and structural changes of agricultural landscapes : how changes are conceived by local farmers in two Danish rural communities
A small number of farmers are interviewed in two contrasting Danish case study areas. The AA. analyze the way in which the landscape is perceived by farmers and compare their views of the changing landscapes with the actual recorded changes
[b1] Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Danemark