Sustainable Land Management: Strategies to Cope with the Marginalisation of Agriculture

In large parts of the world, the reduction in the viability of agriculture and rural areas is an escalating problem. Sustainable Land Management offers a contemporary overview of the strategies employed to cope with the marginalisation of agriculture, through analyses of case studies and regional trends in marginalisation.

The authors argue that complexities and driving forces governing marginalisation are not always the same across nations and regions due to climate, geography, economics, legislation and political status. This book illustrates in what form these complexities exist, and how these unravel at the national and regional levels. As the need to understand and cope with marginalisation processes has developed, the concept of multi-functionality has also gained a vital place in the string of coping strategies. This work contributes essential knowledge for the development of marginalisation mitigation policy actions across the globe.

Informative and well-documented, this book will appeal to those researching and working in the fields of agricultural and resource economics, rural geography, environmental governance and sustainable development.

Edited by Floor Brouwer, Senior Research Scholar, Wageningen Research, the Netherlands, Teunis van Rheenen, Special Assistant to the Director General and Secretary to the Board of Trustees, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), US, Shivcharn S. Dhillion, Independent Consultant of ENVIRO-DEV, Norway and Anna Martha Elgersma, former Researcher, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norway