Cultivated land fragmentation

Cultivated land fragmentation is divided into two types: micro-scale cultivated land tenure fragmentation and medium-macro-scale cultivated land landscape fragmentation according to the spatial scale, and these two types are both closely related and significantly different. The former is mainly based on the perspective of farmers, and mostly takes the cultivated land plots operated by farmers as the analysis object, which is usually manifested as a large number of co-owners of the same plot or multiple scattered plots of land that are not adjacent to each other by the same farmer. The latter usually takes the cultivated land landscape patch in a specific area as the analysis object, and pays more attention to its landscape pattern information in terms of resource scale, spatial agglomeration, production and utilization. Under the comprehensive action of physical geography, social economy, land distribution, cultural tradition and other factors, cultivated land fragmentation in a certain area presents different plot sizes, complex and irregular forms, inconvenient production and utilization, discrete and fragmented spatial distribution, and comprehensive characteristics and states of ownership or contract management rights jointly held by multiple people and intertwined ownership of adjacent plots.

Edited and Translated by Zhang Yifei