constraints for agriculture. Our map provides a basis for assessing the potential of Central and Eastern Europe’s abandoned … social constraints of recultivation. …

extensive during the transition period and predominantly occurred in marginal areas with low suitability for agriculture …. Conversely, we observed substantial recultivation of formerly abandoned cropland in high-value agricultural areas since 2000 …

analyzeanalyzed the patterns and determinants of agricultural land abandonment and recultivation in Slovakia during the transition … boosted regression trees. We used a scenario-based approach to assess future agricultural land abandonment and recultivation … 11% of agricultural land from 1986 to 2000, and on 6% of the agricultural land from 2000 to 2010. Recultivation occurred …

mainly in areas that were less favorable for agriculture. Cropland re-cultivation after 2000 was occurring on lands with … Northern Kazakhstan. Further, we assessed the potential of currently idle cropland for re-cultivation. We reconstructed the … grassland by 2000. After 2000, cropland contraction and re-cultivation were balanced. Using spatial logistic regressions we …

modest increases in the crop productivity and the recultivation of the recently abandoned croplands could increase wheat …

attributes of the agricultural land. We hypothesize that the termination of 90% of state subsidies for agriculture from 1990 to … agriculture areas. Thus, whereas the spatial patterns corresponded to the land rent theory of von Thunen, it was primarily the …

built-up, majorly, at the expense of agriculture, slightly contributed by the decline in scrubland. There is much scope for …