Agricultural land fragmentation is widespread and may affect farmers’ decisions and impact farm performance, either negatively or positively. The authors investigated this impact for the western region of Brittany, France, in 2007, regressing a set of performance indicators on a set of...

In this paper, a continuous version of theMarkov Chain Model (MCM) is proposed to project thenumber and the population structure of farms. It is thenapplied to the population of professional French farms.Rather than working directly with transitionprobabilities as in the traditional,...