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Economic impacts of farmland degradation in the Czech Republic - Case study

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  • Jana Podhrazska

    (Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
    Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Department of Land Consolidations and Land Use Planning, Brno, Czech Republic)

  • Jan Szturc

    (Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic)

  • Petr Karasek

    (Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Department of Land Consolidations and Land Use Planning, Brno, Czech Republic)

  • Josef Kucera

    (Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Department of Land Consolidations and Land Use Planning, Brno, Czech Republic)

  • Jana Konecna

    (Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Department of Land Consolidations and Land Use Planning, Brno, Czech Republic)

Abstract

To analyse the potential changes in soil characteristics and associated impacts on the land price, the region of South Moravia was selected, strongly threatened by erosion and by claiming the most valuable land in suburban territories due to industrial and housing expansion. For the detailed analysis of the impacts of erosion and land appropriation in the region of South Moravia, the model territories of Brno surroundings with the municipality of Dolní Heršpice and Hustopeče surroundings with the municipality of Starovice were selected. The price of land degraded by potential erosion in the South Moravian region fluctuates between 88 and 2 400 EUR/ha. In the past 180 years, 148 ha of agricultural land in the total value of 822 815 EUR have been used for construction in the location under study in Dolní Heršpice. Further growth of the municipality should involve additional appropriation of agricultural land in the value of 411 000 EUR. In the studied land block of 100.5 ha, located in the Starovice municipality area, water erosion caused degradation in the total value of 92 000 EUR in the period 1978-2013. Extensive losses of fertile agricultural land are to be expected in the future. Their main causes are continuing land appropriation and degradation processes - soil erosion.

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  • Jana Podhrazska & Jan Szturc & Petr Karasek & Josef Kucera & Jana Konecna, 2019. "Economic impacts of farmland degradation in the Czech Republic - Case study," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 65(11), pages 529-538.
    • Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:65:y:2019:i:11:id:89-2019-agricecon
    DOI: 10.17221/89/2019-AGRICECON
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