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1. Definition
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Name
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FARM
OWNERSHIP (type of tenure)
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Brief
definition
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The
percentage of rented agricultural area in the owner-farmed
agricultural area
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Unit
of measure
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%
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2.
Position within the logical framework DPSIR
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Type
of Indicator
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Driving
Force/State
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3.
Target and political pertinence
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Objective
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The
indicator contributes to a definition of the socio-economic
context of the area affected by desertification.
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Importance
with respect to desertification
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Farmers
without a long-term perspective on their own property
are not encouraged to invest in soil conservation
measures or make long-term investments in its improvement.
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International
Conventions and agreements
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The
UNCCD emphasises the importance of the measures to
improve institutional organization, adjusting, as
appropriate, the institutional and regulatory framework
of natural resource management to provide security
of land tenure for local populations.
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Secondary
objectives of the indicator
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This
indicator represents a fundamental indicator for decision-
makers. It can help in addressing political measures
to individual farmers (farm-level) or in more effective
public actions (higher-scale).
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4.
Methodological description and basic definitions
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Definitions
and basic concepts
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Agricultural
land is the sum of arable land, kitchen gardens (horticulture),
permanent pastures and meadows and permanent crop.
Following the EUROSTAT CODE the utilised agricultural
area can be:
Owner
- farmed.
Agricultural land being farmed by the holding which
is the property of the holder or farmed by him as
usufructuary or inheritable long-term lease holder
or under some other equivalent type of tenure.
Tenant
- farmed.
Land rented by the holding in return for a fixed
rent agreed in advance (in cash, kind or otherwise),
and for which there is a (written or oral) tenancy
agreement. The rented land can consist of:
- a complete holding,
- individual parcels
of land.
Land
rented cannot be considered part of the property owner's
holding, but always part of the lessee's holding.
Any animals on the land are considered to belong to
the holding in possession of the animals.
Farmed
under other modes of tenure
Share
- farmed.
Land (which may constitute a complete holding) farmed
in partnership by the landlord and the sharecropper
under a written or oral share-farming contract. The
output (either economic or physical) of the share
cropped area is shared between two parties on an agreed
basis.
Other
modes.
Other modes of tenure not covered elsewhere. This
includes inter alia land over which the holder
enjoys rights:
- by virtue of his
occupancy of a particular post (forester, priest,
teacher, etc.),
- allotted by the
parish or other organisation, e.g. common grazing
land apportioned on an acreage basis (as distinct
from land over which common grazing rights are enjoyed).
- land which the
holding works free of any charge (e.g. areas from
derelict holdings).
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Benchmarks
Indication of the values/ranges of value
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I°
range: < Local Mean -St. Dev.
II° range: >Local Mean - St. Dev. < Local Mean
III° range: > Local Mean < Local Mean + St.
Dev.
IV° range: > Local Mean + St. Dev
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Methods
of measurement
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Ratio
between rent UUA and UUA owner-farmed
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Limits
of the indicator
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In
spite of the fact that there is no evidence in the
Developed World that owners rather than tenants have
conserved the soil (Boardman J., Poesen J., Evans
R., 2003), the regulatory framework, especially the
duration of a lease, influencing security of tenure,
plays a crucial role in the natural resource management.
The regulatory framework varies across nations making
comparisons difficult.
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Linkages
with other indicators
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Farm
size, Farmers age,
Parallel employment,
Net farm income
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5.
Evaluation of data needs and availability
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Data
required to calculate the indicator
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Rent
UUA; UUA owner-farmed
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Data
sources
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Agricultural
Statistics
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Availability
of data from national and international sources
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Eurostat
and national statistics
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6.
Institutions that have participated in developing the indicator
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Main
institutions responsible
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University
of Basilicata, Italy
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Other
contributing organizations
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Universities
of Athens, Lisbon, Murcia
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7.
Additional information
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Bibliography
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Boardman
J., Poesen J., Evans R. (2003): Socio-economic factors
in soil erosion and conservation, Environmental Science
& Policy 6, Elsevier Science.
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Other
references
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Contacts
Name and address
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University
of Basilicata
Prof Giovanni Quaranta
email: quaranta@unibas.it
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