Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia
In recent decades, Russia has experienced substantial transformations in agricultural land tenure. Post-Soviet reforms have shaped land distribution patterns but the impacts of these on agricultural use of land remain under-investigated. On a regional scale, there is still a knowledge gap in terms o...
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| description | In recent decades, Russia has experienced substantial transformations in agricultural land tenure. Post-Soviet reforms have shaped land distribution patterns but the impacts of these on agricultural use of land remain under-investigated. On a regional scale, there is still a knowledge gap in terms of knowing to what extent the variations in the compositions of agricultural land funds may be explained by changes in the acreage of other land categories. Using a case analysis of 82 of Russia’s territories from 2010 to 2018, the authors attempted to study the structural variations by picturing the compositions of regional land funds and mapping agricultural land distributions based on ranking “land activity”. Correlation analysis of centered log-ratio transformed compositional data revealed that in agriculture-oriented regions, the proportion of cropland was depressed by agriculture-to-urban and agriculture-to-industry land loss. In urbanized territories, the compositions of agricultural land funds were predominantly affected by changes in the acreage of industrial, transportation, and communication lands. In underpopulated territories in the north and far east of Russia, the acreages of cropland and perennial planting were strongly correlated with those of disturbed and barren lands. As the first attempt at such analysis in Russia, the conversion of cadastral classification data into land-rating values enabled the identification of region-to-region mismatches between the cadaster-based mapping and ranking-based distribution of agricultural lands. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-194413da61124e89850cc9a08465f6672023-11-20T04:10:46ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2020-06-019620110.3390/land9060201Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across RussiaVasilii Erokhin0Tianming Gao1Anna Ivolga2School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaFaculty of Social and Cultural Service and Tourism, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol 355017, RussiaIn recent decades, Russia has experienced substantial transformations in agricultural land tenure. Post-Soviet reforms have shaped land distribution patterns but the impacts of these on agricultural use of land remain under-investigated. On a regional scale, there is still a knowledge gap in terms of knowing to what extent the variations in the compositions of agricultural land funds may be explained by changes in the acreage of other land categories. Using a case analysis of 82 of Russia’s territories from 2010 to 2018, the authors attempted to study the structural variations by picturing the compositions of regional land funds and mapping agricultural land distributions based on ranking “land activity”. Correlation analysis of centered log-ratio transformed compositional data revealed that in agriculture-oriented regions, the proportion of cropland was depressed by agriculture-to-urban and agriculture-to-industry land loss. In urbanized territories, the compositions of agricultural land funds were predominantly affected by changes in the acreage of industrial, transportation, and communication lands. In underpopulated territories in the north and far east of Russia, the acreages of cropland and perennial planting were strongly correlated with those of disturbed and barren lands. As the first attempt at such analysis in Russia, the conversion of cadastral classification data into land-rating values enabled the identification of region-to-region mismatches between the cadaster-based mapping and ranking-based distribution of agricultural lands.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/6/201agricultural landcroplandland categoryland fundterritoryRussia |
| spellingShingle | Vasilii Erokhin Tianming Gao Anna Ivolga Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia Land agricultural land cropland land category land fund territory Russia |
| title | Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia |
| title_full | Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia |
| title_fullStr | Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia |
| title_short | Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia |
| title_sort | structural variations in the composition of land funds at regional scales across russia |
| topic | agricultural land cropland land category land fund territory Russia |
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