Drivers of land-use changes in societies with decreasing populations: A comparison of the factors affecting farmland abandonment in a food production area in Japan

• Yoshiko Kobayashi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mail.yoshikoba@gmail.com

  Current address: Western Region Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Zentsuji, Kagawa, Japan

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0547-6078

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• Motoki Higa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Kochi, Kochi, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3406-999X

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• Kan Higashiyama,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Futoshi Nakamura

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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