Term (also field consolidation, land regulation, land regulation, reallocation) for all measures to make agricultural land or plots of land that have been split up by inheritance more suitable for cultivation and more cost-effective by merging them. In Germany, an extensive state-controlled land consolidation programme was carried out from the early 1960s, in which more than half of the vineyards in western Germany were restructured. There were many improvements through better access roads, better workability and better water drainage. Many fragmented estates were amalgamated, thereby reducing production costs. In some cases, this also led to very large monocultures with negative side effects such as erosion or increased pest populations, which is why such measures were carried out in a more environmentally conscious manner from the 1990s onwards.
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