Land fragmentation continues to be a challenge throughout the world, the United States, and particularly in the rapidly growing Southeast, as well as every state with a metropolitan area that abuts rural lands. With a United States population expected to grow to more than 500 million by 2060, it will present exceptional challenges for planners and policy makers to preserve important agricultural lands for farms and forests to provide both food and fiber, as well as to provide a host of ecosystem services and enhance the quality of life for our growing population. These issues of fragmentation are extremely substantial for African American, other minority, and limited-income landowners in the U.S. South, who often lack wills and have lands that are broken up into small parcels, or have divided ownership rights in one parcel, when passed on to heirs. Existing efforts can be expanded to provide tools and incentives for the owners of hiers property and other working lands to preserve them, and state and municipal planners will need to promote development plans and practices thoughtfully and strategically in order to prevent the projected loss of nearly 18 million acres of working lands by the year 2040.

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土地碎片化和继承人财产：当前问题和政策应对

土地碎片化仍然是全世界面临的一个挑战，在美国，尤其是在快速增长的东南部地区，以及每个拥有毗邻农村土地的大都市区的州。到 2060 年，美国人口预计将增长到 5 亿以上，这将给规划者和政策制定者带来巨大的挑战，以保护农场和森林的重要农业用地，以提供食物和纤维，并提供大量的资源。生态系统服务并提高不断增长的人口的生活质量。对于美国南部的非裔美国人、其他少数族裔和收入有限的土地所有者来说，这些碎片化问题极为严重，他们往往缺乏意愿，拥有的土地被分割成小块土地，或者在通过时将所有权分割为一块土地。传给继承人。可以扩大现有的努力，为财产和其他工作用地的所有者提供工具和激励措施来保护它们，州和市规划者将需要深思熟虑和战略性地促进发展计划和实践，以防止预计损失近 18到 2040 年，将有 100 万英亩的工作用地。