Danish land consolidation
Eskildsen, Karl Aage
Danish land consolidation aims to reduce fragmentation of agricultural land. It can be defined as: A procedure for simultaneous handling of a (sometimes large) number of sales and purchases of land in which farmers exchange land allowing fields to be moved to a closer vicinity of the farm buildings. The farmers achieve a better location of their land and as a side effect the traffic with slow and heavy agricultural machinery by road is reduced. During recent decades the technique, approach and philosophy in land consolidation has increasingly been applied also in other land-related transitions, notably nature conservation projects and expropriations for the construction of major roads. Besides, the objective is increasingly stated as improvement of structuree rather than reduction of fragmentation. This is because of the pronounced trend towards fewer and larger holdings.
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