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Farm growth and land concentration
No full textStructural change in agriculture is characterized by the interdependency of farms' growth decisions due to the scarcity of agricultural land. This paper adds to the sparse empirical literature on the relation between land market concentration and farm size changes, considering different definitions of the relevant market. Using data from the Integrated Administrative Control System (IACS) from 2005 until 2017 for Brandenburg, Germany, we find that about half of the land transactions occur beyond municipality borders. This emphasizes the importance of carefully defining the relevant market. The descriptive analysis shows that although concentration rates, on average, did not increase over time, spatial differences are present. In the econometric analysis, we apply a two stage model to analyze how competition for agricultural land impacts the probability and relative level of expansion. For farms that remained active between 2005 and 2017, we find a negative relation between farm size and relative growth. Our conjecture that higher inequality of land distribution fosters the expansion of large farms was not confirmed
Holy Land Maps #144
No full textSteel engraving.; Relief indicated by hachures.; Map shows the boundaries of the Land of Israel at the time of Ottoman rule.; Includes 5 detailed vignettes : Jaffa, gazelle, pelicans, Nazareth and natives of Mount Lebanon.; "Illustrations by H. Warren and engraved by R. Baker."; Map is enclosed with a decorative border with title at top.; Prime meridian: Greenwich.; From: Illustrated atlas, and modern history of the world ; London and New York : J. & F. Tallis, 1857 ; edited by R. Martin.; From the Maps of the Holy Land collection of Kenneth Nebenzahl.Colo
Making negotiated land reform work : initial experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa
Get PDFThe author describes a new type of negotiated land reform that relies on voluntary land transfers negotiated between buyers and sellers, with the government's role restricted to establishing the necessary framework for negotiation and making a land purchase grant available to eligible beneficiaries. This approach has emerged-following the end of the Cold War and broad macroeconomic adjustment--as many countries face a second generation of reforms to address deep-rooted structural problems and provide a basis for sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. The author describes initial experiences in Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. It is too soon to know whether negotiated land reform can rise to the challenges administrative land reform failed to solve but the data so far suggests that: 1) Negotiated land reform can succeed only if measures are taken to make the market for land sales and rentals more fluid transparent. 2) Productive projects are likely to be the key to market-assisted land reform. The potential for project productivity establishes an upper bound on the price to be paid and a basis for financial intermediaries to evaluate the project. It also requires beneficiaries to familiarize themselves with the realities they're likely to confront as independent farmers and the limits to how much land reform can help them achieve their goals. 3) The only way to effectively coordinate the entities involved in the process is through decentralized, demand-driven implementation. 4) The long-run success of land reform depends on getting the private sector involved and using the land purchase grant to"crowd in"private money.Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Municipal Housing and Land,Land Use and Policies,Environmental Economics&Policies,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Municipal Housing and Land,Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction,Banks&Banking Reform
Public Land Sale, Columbus, Mississippi to Martin J. Sims, October 1, 1859
No full textThis document declares the approval of the sale of certain public land in Columbus, Mississippi, to Martin J. Sims of Attala County, Mississippi on October 1, 1859. The certificate of sale is signed by United States President, Franklin Pierce.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-webb-collection/2856/thumbnail.jp
Research on land markets in South Asia : what have we learned?
Get PDFThe authors review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved issues. They report that: (1) We have a good understanding of why sharecropping persists and why it can be superior to other standard agricultural contracts. We have less understanding of what determines the relative efficiency of sharecropping in different environments and why other apparently superior contractual relationships are rare. (2) Insecure rights to land adversely affect production and investment incentives in areas outside of South Asia, but in South Asia strong evidence linking investment and rights to production is scarce. (3) An inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit area is a recurrent feature in data from South Asia, apparently related to land-labor interactions. (4) Although small farms seem to be more efficient than large ones, small farmers have trouble raising their profitability and enlarging their holding, largely because of credit constraints, but also because of poverty and policy that discriminates against them. (5) Misguided land reform in the past has made tenancy unattractive to landowners, so large capital-intensive farms have developed. Political economic analysis is needed to explain the failure of past land reform, as well as distortions in agricultural input and output markets in (6) South Asia. Land fragmentation (as distinguished from farm size) has caused productivity losses. Those losses have not been quantified and the reasons fragmentation persists are poorly understood. (7) Transaction costs are a significant impediment to functioning land markets. In South Asia, transfers of land rights are complicated by lack of explicit title to land, and by informal and customary rights. (8) One pressing research problem is gender discrimination, an important factor in land market imperfections -especially (within the household) the separation of land management and its control. Research needs include more systematic regional comparisons, the use of more panel data, and an investigation of how agricultural productivity is affected by gender problems and land fragmentation.Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Land Use and Policies,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction,Land Use and Policies
Introducing the Journal of Transport and Land Use
Get PDFThis article introduces the Journal of Transport and Land Use and its inaugural issue.Levinson, David M.; Krizek, Kevin J.; Dijst, Martin J.; Lo, Hong K.; Guo, Jessica Y.. (2008). Introducing the Journal of Transport and Land Use. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.5198/jtlu.v1i1.72
Interview with Father James Martin
Get PDFIn May 2011, the Ignatian Faculty Scholars at Regis University conducted a Skype interview with Father James Martin, S. J., author of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything. The Scholars had used Father Martin’s book as a text for their year of study, which focused on Ignatian Spirituality, the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, and teaching and learning at a Jesuit university. The interview was transcribed and is printed below. Father Martin reflects on the book, and responds to questions about the book itself, about finding God in all learners, and about the Church
Finding Aid for the James W. Silver & Martin J. Dain Collection (MUM00411)
Get PDFCorrespondence between James W. Silver, author of Mississippi: The Closed Society (1964), and Martin J. Dain, a photographer who documented Silver for Life magazine
Research priorities in land use and land-cover change for the Earth System and Integrated Assessment Modelling
Get PDFThis special issue has highlighted recent and innovative methods and results that integrate observations and modelling analyses of regional to global aspect of biophysical and biogeochemical interactions of land-cover change with the climate system. Both the Earth System and the Integrated Assessment modeling communities recognize the importance of an accurate representation of land use and land-cover change to understand and quantify the interactions and feedbacks with the climate and socio-economic systems, respectively. To date, cooperation between these communities has been limited. Based on common interests, this work discusses research priorities in representing land use and land-cover change for improved collaboration across modelling, observing and measurement communities. Major research topics in land use and land-cover change are those that help us better understand (1) the interaction of land use and land cover with the climate system (e.g. carbon cycle feedbacks), (2) the provision of goods and ecosystem services by terrestrial (natural and anthropogenic) land-cover types (e.g. food production), (3) land use and management decisions and (4) opportunities and limitations for managing climate change (for both mitigation and adaptation strategies
Martin Hall, 1970 Buildings 2
No full textJacksonville State University\u27s Martin Hall was constructed on land across Pelham Road from the main campus. It was purchased from J. Thomas Martin and his nephew Joe Martin Morris. Martin Hall is named after the Martin family. Shown is an exterior view of the building. (circa 1970)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/42048/thumbnail.jp
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