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Preservation of Agricultural Lands Through Land Use Planning Tools and Techniques
Natural Resources Journal 44(Winter): 283–318, 2004by: Elisa PasterThis article discusses a number of regulatory and nonregulatory farmland protection policy and implementation techniques. -
Preserving Large Farming Landscapes: The Case of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 7(3): 67–81, 2017by: Thomas Daniels, Lauren Payne-RileyThis article stresses the importance of preserving large farming landscapes, highlighting three measures that best reflect the spatial effectiveness of farmland preservation efforts. -
Agricultural Buffers at the Rural-Urban Fringe: An Examination of Approval by Farmers, Residents, and Academics in the Midwestern United States
Landscape and Urban Planning 69(2004): 299–313by: William Sullivan, Olin Anderson, Sarah LovellThis article asks whether agricultural buffers can help mediate conflicts between households and working farms on the rural-urban fringe. -
Farmland Protection: What’s Behind the Growing Interest?
Planning Commissioners Journal, No. 63, Summer 2006by: Ken SchneiderThis article examines three main approaches to farmland protection: farm viability, agricultural zoning, and permanent conservation. -
The Future of Farming on the Urban Edge: Insights from Fifteen U.S. Counties About Farmland Protection and Farm Viability
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 1(2): 59–75, 2010by: Kate Clancy, Lydia Oberholzer, J. Dixon EsseksThis article surveyed landowners in 15 U.S. counties to examine the opportunities and constraints that farmers face in urban-edge areas. -
Priorities for Advancing the Concept of New Ruralism
Sustainability 2016(8): 269, 2016by: Galen Newman, Jesse Saginor, AICPThis article expands on the concept of “New Ruralism,” a development framework that links farmland preservation with residential development to reduce farmland conversion and counteract sprawl. -
Local Agricultural Preservation: Making the Food System Connection
PAS Memo — March/April 2011Local food deserves a fair chance to compete in the marketplace and in the hearts, minds, and mouths of all. Planners have a major role to play in educating the public, helping to put in place the components of a viable food system, and advocating change at systemic as well as local levels. -
Preserving Large Landscapes
Eastern and western styles differ but align in important ways.Eastern and Western states take different approaches to agricultural preservation. -
Farming at the Fringe
Exurban areas are embracing family farms.The Land Stewardship Project helps farming move forward in the Midwest. -
Saving Farms and Farmland
Ag land preservation has reached maturity.Examining the farm-land preservation process. -
Revisiting Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" had an important impact on the use of pesticides.
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