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Does land fragmentation affect farm performance?A french Breton case study

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Agricultural land fragmentation is widespread around the world and may affect farmers’ decisions and therefore have an impact on the performance of farms, whether in a negative or in a positive way. In this paper we test whether the relationship is positive or negative for the French western region of Brittany in 2007. The relationship between land fragmentation and farm performance is investigated with econometric regressions applied to several performance indicators (production costs, yields, financial results and technical efficiency) calculated with Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) farm-level data, and several fragmentation descriptors calculated at the municipality level using data from the cartographic field pattern registry (RPG). The various fragmentation descriptors enable to account not only for the traditional number and mean size of plots, but also for their scattering in the geographical space. Our analysis highlights that the measures of land fragmentation usually used in the literature reveal less significant relationships with farm performance than more complex measures accounting for distance. Our results indicate that farms experience higher cost of production, lower crop yields and lower financial results where land fragmentation is more pronounced, and that technical efficiency is only loosely related to land fragmentation.
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hal-01208913 , version 1 (03-06-2020)

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Laure Latruffe, Laurent Piet. Does land fragmentation affect farm performance?A french Breton case study. 6. Journées de recherches en sciences sociales (JRSS), Société Française d'Economie Rurale (SFER). FRA., Dec 2012, Toulouse, France. 24 p. ⟨hal-01208913⟩

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