A systems approach for the estimation of the effects of land consolidation projects (LCPs): a model and its application |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Land Management and Geomatics, Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, Studentu 11, Akademija, LT-53361, Kaunas Distr., Lithuania;2. Department of the Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, United Kingdom;3. Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Kraków, 253c Balicka Street, Kraków 30-149, Poland;4. School of Life Sciences, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom;1. Department of Landscape Planning and Ground Design, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Hospodárska 7, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia;2. Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovakia;1. IFAPA, Centro Camino de Purchil, Dep. of Agricultural Economics, Granada, Spain;2. IFAPA, Centro Venta del llano, Mengíbar, Jaén, Spain;1. Department of Agricultural Land Surveying, Cadastre and Photogrammetry, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, ul. Balicka 253a, 30-198 Krakow, Poland;2. Konya Technical University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Konya, Turkey;1. Faculty of Geo-Information Science (ITC), University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands;2. Department of Business Technology and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Land consolidation projects (LCPs) are costly rural development actions that are often questioned. Integrated LCPs are geographically confined Land Rural Development Actions and their ex ante evaluation involves interdisciplinary research, in order to predict changes in farmers' behaviour, patterns of land use and in crops and technologies used. A model that incorporates methods for the evaluation of the performance of the agricultural system before and after the transformations proposed in the project is presented. It is argued that the systems approach is the appropriate method to integrate each particular change and evaluate the global impact of every action included in the project. The model was applied to the Valença-LCP in 1989, before project execution (Coelho, 1992 Análise de Projectos de Emparcelamento Rural. O caso de Valença do Minho. PhD thesis, UTL, ISA, Lisboa.). It evaluates each effect of the project (land, irrigation and drainage and road reconstruction) on a technical and social basis and estimates its economic impacts. The observed results used to evaluate model performance were obtained in 1995, after project implementation. The results from the comparison of model predictions (ex ante evaluation) with observations after LCP implementation (ex post evaluation) suggest that a multidisciplinary approach such as the one proposed here, supported by robust models, can be used as a reliable basis for the evaluation and decision-making process of LCPs. |
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