@article{Latruffe:207854,
      recid = {207854},
      author = {Latruffe, Laure and Piet, Laurent},
      title = {Does land fragmentation affect farm performance? A case  study from Brittany, France},
      address = {2013},
      number = {913-2016-72268},
      series = {13-04},
      pages = {31},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Agricultural land fragmentation is widespread around the  world and may affect farmers’ decisions and therefore have  an impact on the performance of farms, in either a negative  or a positive way. We investigated this impact for the  western region of Brittany, France, in 2007. To do so, we  regressed a set of performance indicators on a set of  fragmentation descriptors. The performance indicators  (production costs, yields, revenue, profitability,  technical and scale efficiency) were calculated at the farm  level using Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data,  while the fragmentation descriptors were calculated at the  municipality level using data from the cartographic field  pattern registry (RPG). The various fragmentation  descriptors enabled not only the traditional number and  average size of plots, but also their scattering in the  geographical space, to be taken into account. Our analysis  highlights the fact that the measures of land fragmentation  usually used in the literature do not reveal the whole set  of significant relationships with farm performance and  that, in particular, measures accounting for distance  should be taken into consideration more systematically.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207854},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.207854},
}