Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our
understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is …

CONTEXT An artificial oasis is a desert area suitable for human occupation and agriculture
by human management. Agricultural reclamation in artificial oases provides a means for …

The aim of this study was to develop a practical methodology for evaluating the sustainability
of farms by means of composite indicators, and to apply it to two agricultural systems, the …

Agricultural land conversion is resulting from ongoing complex interaction between the
physical environment, policy settings and socio-economic factors. Case studies of the …

The assessment of sustainability at farm level has been growing in popularity over the last
few years. This article contributes to this line of research by building up composite indicators …

Since the 1960s, research has dealt with agricultural intensification (AI) as a solution to
ensure global food security. Recently, sustainable intensification (SI) has increasingly been …

Agricultural statistics performed in Europe show the persistence and strength of the
processes of concentration, capitalization and intensification of farms in the last years …

This article endeavours to illuminate a largely underexplored area of family farming
research; that of multiple‐household arrangements at the farm level. The investigation …

The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between size and farm growth. The
existing theories of the association between size and farm growth give mixed results by …

Norwegian agriculture has, as in most western-European countries, gone through several
periods of change during the last 100 years. Pronounced changes have occurred in …