Sociology and Space, No. 61-62, 1978.
Review article
Some Social Aspects of Land Redistribution
Svetozar Livada
Abstract
The author discusses the meaning
of land redistribution under
present conditions of improvement
of agricultural production. He
stresses, that this measure does not
only mean the ordering of land,
i. e. grouping of small plots into
biger complexes, but rather has a
wider social meaning. Land
consolidation is frequently
accompanied by other undertakings
or measures, such as amelioration,
building of water canals,
construction of roads,
reorganization, building of
gravitating settlements etc.
The largest obstacle for
the technical and technological
organization of the optimal
production in Yugoslavia is the so
called »conflict between the
tractor and the boundary« —
meaning, however, the opposition
to the application of science in
agriculture, i. e. the conflict
between the modern and the
traditional in agriculture. The
dynamics of modern changes in all
spheres of life, as well as in
agriculture, requires a constant
revalorization of farming with
agrarian spaces, due, in the first
place, to the limitation of agrarian
resources as well as to the fact,
that from all existing crises, the
crisis of food production is mostly
to be felt.
Therefore, it is necessary to work
upon the so called permanent
arrangement of space. The legal
provisions regarding the policy
of space are clear and very strict;
however, these rules are not
abided. Due to spontaneous
deagrarianization on the one side
and bad management of land on the other, there are already at the H
moment about 1.50 thousand acres
of farming land in Yugoslavia,
which no one cultivates!
According to the author, land
redistribution is the pre-condition
for spatial planning. The today’s
generations have to behave
towards land management with
more responsibility, and namely,
out of the simple fact, that space
is the necesary pre-condition for
life and work.
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Hrčak ID:
119113
URI
Publication date:
12.12.1978.
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