Siim Maasikamäe

• PhD
• Estonian University of Life Sciences

Land reform created a large number of small landed properties in Estonia’s rural areas. Many people became landowners through land restitution. These new land owners had no farming capacity. Quite often, the new landowners lived in cities, not on the plots they owned, and they lacked necessary machinery and knowledge of farming. Today many land own...

Development processes take place everywhere, but they are more observable in urban areas and peri-urban areas. Regulations for urban areas are usually well developed, but the situation is less clear for peri-urban areas. Peri-urban areas sometimes have land use conflicts, or competition for the land occurs. Meanwhile, it is quite problematic to det...

The implementation of land reform has influenced the formation of property structure. The main procedures of land reform activities are stated in Estonian legislation. However, the provisions for determining the area and the boundaries for properties to be formed in the course of land reform are stated in legal acts in an unsystematic way. The aim...

Full text: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2590-051X(23)00052-7 Local governments (LGs) that are small and located in peripheral locations have several challenges to introduce policies for increasing local firms’ innovation activity compared to LGs located near agglomerations. This article reveals that one of the comparative advantages of...

After the collapse of Soviet system, immediately after declaration of independence, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania decided to initiate land reform within the framework of agrarian reform. The defined general objectives of land reform were: to establish a fairer system of property and use rights, to create conditions for intensity and productivity in...

As a result of agricultural, land and ownership reforms coupled with liberal agricultural policy during the transition, agricultural land use in Estonia became more fragmented. A significant portion of agricultural land users are now considered passive farmers who maintain their agricultural land (often permanent grasslands) in good agricultural an...

We are suggesting a method of measuring the speed of spatial spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) among wild boar, possibly applicable for other species and diseases. We describe the time pattern of the spatial spread of ASF in Estonia and we analyze the possible impact of climatic and human related factors on the spread of the disease. The study pr...

Full text: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Xe1kyDvM7sFy The rising population of the world increases the need for raw materials and food. The more efficient production methods help to reduce the shortage of production and to mitigate climate change. This paper analyses the relationship between land fragmentation and farm productivity. The results...

Combined and separate impact of climate and land use change on the future river runoff was assessed in the eastern Baltic Sea region by using the SWAT (The Soil and Water Assessment Tool) hydrological model. SWAT was applied to assess how plausible changes in climate and land use may affect the river hydrology by the end of the century. The model w...

The construction of objects of infrastructure introduces different disruptions, including changes in the present land use. The changes depend on the size of the object. If it is a highway or high-speed railway, then the disruption will be more comprehensive. Today the construction of a new railway route (Rail Baltic) is under discussion in Estonia....

Land fragmentation is a problem for many post-communist countries. Different aspects of land fragmentation have been investigated by many researchers. However, there is little attention paid to the issues of internal fragmentation of agricultural parcels. In this study, internal fragmentation is understood as the following phenomenon: a parcel cons...

In order to better understand the factors affecting the implementation of land reform, a detailed analysis must be carried out. So far, relatively little substantive analysis has been conducted which would allow a better understanding of the complexity of the land reform process and also a better understanding of the factors affecting the speed of...

The speed of the land reform in different municipalities of Estonia has been different. In some municipalities, almost all land has already been reformed and registered in cadastre, while in other municipalities, the land reform completion time is yet not clear. On the other hand, the fast completion of the land reform is the major aim for many pol...

Since Estonia gained independence in 1991, huge efforts have been made to re-establish private property. Technologically speaking, land reform and land administration are a success; nearly the whole country has been registered and information on individual parcels can be disseminated to institutions and the general public via the web. However, lack...

As of 31 March 2006 altogether 80.9 percent of the area of Estonia (4522.7 thousand hectares) has been registered in the Land Cadastre. The total number of registered parcels (cadastral units) is approximately 500 thousand (by cadastral data of Estonian Land Board). The reasons of land fragmentation in Estonia are different but the ideology of land...