From large-scale communist agricultural premise through abandoned contaminated ruin to organic farming production: The story of successful post-agricultural brownfield regeneration

Petr Klusáček,Tomáš Krejčí,Stanislav Martinát,Josef Navrátil,Klára Charvátová

doi:10.32725/det.2021.018

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International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.

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Countryside and agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe experienced a complex development during the 20th century (Banski, 2018; Jancak & Gotz, 1997; Sarris et al, 1999)
In the post-socialist period, rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a complex transformation process that resulted in creation of numerous large-scale abandoned post-agricultural premises not unlike industrial brownfields
While in some countries, such as Austria, small family farms have been preserved and the traditional landscape structure maintained (Penz, 1997), in other countries, such as the former Czechoslovakia, Soviet models have been thoroughly applied in agricultural policies (Jancak et al, 2019)

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Countryside and agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe experienced a complex development during the 20th century (Banski, 2018; Jancak & Gotz, 1997; Sarris et al, 1999) The overall aim of the new communist agriculture was to increase food production by using mechanization that was supported by the use of herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides in crop production or the creation of economically more feasible large-scale farms. Changes in agriculture and rural regions that were celebrated as an extremely progressive way leading to the creation of ‘the new world’ brought persecution to many farmers and their families (Borsa, 2012), who independently cultivated their agricultural land for decades or centuries, and led to the liquidation of the vast majority of independent private farmers in former Czechoslovakia

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