Land is a finite and one of the fundamental resources provided by nature to mankind. Land acts as platform on which mankind performs all his activities for survival. For his survival, man engages himself in different activities. A significant share of total land surface of the world is used for agricultural activities. Over the last few decades, development of secondary and tertiary activities coupled with rapid population growth, has caused an unprecedented transformation of agricultural lands. With explosion of human activities, agricultural lands have gone and still continue going on out of cultivation to develop new infrastructures like roads network, railways, industries, residential sectors, institutions etc. near the urban centers or in vicinity of urban area. This development of new infrastructure has increased the demands of land and has promoted the acquisition of agricultural land. This acquisition of agricultural has different implications on agricultural societies and as well as on agricultural economy of a country, state or of a particular region. This book is based on collections of different case studies related to urban expansion, land use change and implications of land acquisitions. This book will be very useful for the research scholars of different disciplines.
