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Abstract
We analyze the impact of land fragmentation on production diversification and its
implications for food security of farm households in rural Albania. Albania
represents a particularly interesting case for studying land fragmentation as the
fragmentation is a direct outcome of land reforms. The results indicate that land
fragmentation is an important driver of production diversification of farm
households in Albania. We find that land fragmentation stimulates significantly
more diversification for subsistence farm households than for market-oriented
households. Our findings have two key policy implications: (i) the consolidation
policies that relocate and enlarge plots would have a significant impact on
reducing agricultural production diversification; and (ii) land fragmentation
contributes to the food security improvement by increasing the variety of foodstuffs
produced by subsistence farm households.