Land fragmentation is a significant issue in Pakistan, where agricultural land is divided into smaller and smaller plots over generations. In Punjab, the most agriculturally productive region of ...

Fragmented landholding has been an issue since India gained independence. The arable plot size is decreasing with each successive generation, mainly due to inheritance laws. The land owned by the ...

Forest fragmentation and land-use change represent interlinked processes driving the transformation of global landscapes. Fragmentation occurs as continuous forest cover is severed into smaller, more ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:In a bid to check excessive fragmentation and conversion of land holdings in the state, the Kerala State Land Board has issued strict guidelines to ...

Moves are afoot to replace the Land Reform Act of 1972 with a new Act that would release State lands to the open market In a Cabinet decision mentioned at a weekly media briefing on December 12 last ...

A feasibility study on voluntary land re-parcelling calls for the setting up of a consultative body to prepare action plans to prevent land fragmentation and support land exchange. Francis Agius, the ...

The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s National Treasurer Barbara Nekesa Oundo has warned locals in Bukedi Sub-region against land fragmentation. Ms Nekesa, while officiating as the ...

One question that ought to be asked as we ponder about achieving food security and up-scaling agricultural production is whether the country’s population is well matched with the available resources.

ON the occasion of ‘World Food Day’ on October 16, the Environ Monitor of Pakistan is organizing a conference in Lahore in the first week of the month. A number of national and international ...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the role of land fragmentation, crop biodiversity and their interplay with farm profitability. Original primary data are drawn from a survey conducted in ...

Bathinda: Responding to a question by Punjab-based Rajya Sabha member Balbir Singh Seechewal about the fragmentation of land upon acquisition, Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin ...