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Agricultural Landscape: Farmland Abandonment and Direct Payments

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This chapter shows the historical shift in Japanese land improvement projects and the borrowing and lending of farmland since World War II, referring to recent trends in agricultural land abandonment and extensification in Japan. This chapter also reviews causes of agricultural land abandonment, focusing on socio-economic causes and biophysical causes. In addition, comparative research on the direct payment system between Japan and the EU is reviewed, as is the history of direct payment schemes in agricultural and rural development policies in Japan. In a review of existing studies, this chapter identifies the characteristics of agricultural landscape management in Japan.

The original version of this chapter was revised: In Fig. 5.2 caption: rations was changed to ratios; In Fig. 5.5 caption: text was added (Some parts of this figure were altered). The erratum to this chapter is available at 10.1007/978-981-10-2278-4_26

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2278-4_26

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Kazuaki Tsuchiya

  2. Center for Community Co-design, The University of Shiga Prefecture, 2500, Hassaka-cho, Hikone, 522-0057, Shiga, Japan

    Kazu Hagihara

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  2. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Chika Takatori

  3. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Nobuko Kawaguchi

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Tsuchiya, K., Hagihara, K. (2017). Agricultural Landscape: Farmland Abandonment and Direct Payments. In: Shimizu, H., Takatori, C., Kawaguchi, N. (eds) Labor Forces and Landscape Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2278-4_5

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