Five Ways of Characterizing Agricultural Land Use Dynamics and Abandonment from Subsidy Data

Wenche E. Dramstad, Neil Sang, Henrik Forsberg-Mathiesen and Anders Bryn
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Wenche E. Dramstad: Division of Survey and Statistics, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, 1431 Ås, Norway
Neil Sang: Department of Landscape Architecture Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, 23053 Alnarp, Sweden
Henrik Forsberg-Mathiesen: Division of Survey and Statistics, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, 1431 Ås, Norway
Anders Bryn: Division of Survey and Statistics, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, 1431 Ås, Norway

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: Abandonment of agricultural land is a process described from different regions of many industrialized countries. Given the current focus on land use, land use change and food security, it appears highly relevant to develop improved tools to identify and monitor the dynamics of agricultural land abandonment. In particular, the temporal aspect of abandonment needs to be assessed and discussed. In this study, we used the detailed information available through the Norwegian subsidy claim database and analyzed the history of use of unique land parcels through a fourteen-year period. We developed and tested five different statistics identifying these land parcels, their temporal dynamics and the extent of occurrence. What became apparent was that a large number of land parcels existing in the database as agricultural land were taken out of production, but then entered into production again at a later stage. We believe that this approach to describe the temporal dynamics of land abandonment, including how it can be measured and mapped, may contribute to the understanding of the dynamics in land abandonment, and thus also contribute to an improved understanding of the food production system.

Keywords: agriculture; land parcel; landscape change; logistic regression; regrowth; statistics; subsidy data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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