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Agricultural Land Loss and Conservation


Agricultural Conservation Easements Partially Mitigate the Loss of ...

The County had established a no-net-loss threshold of significance for agricultural land, effectively requiring that the net impact of a project ...

Farmland Conservation - CalCAN - California Climate & Agriculture ...

This loss of farmland, especially to urban and suburban development, also contributes to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A 2012 study by UC Davis ...

What's an Agricultural Conservation Easement?

By restricting certain uses on a property, the easement lowers the value of the land. MALT compensates agriculturalists for the loss of that value by purchasing ...

Why Preserve Farmland? - Lehigh County

The American Farmland Trust estimates nearly 1.7 billion tons of topsoil are lost each year. Preserved farm properties are managed by private landowners using ...

Farmland Protection - Illinois Department of Agriculture

Department policy is not designed to limit or stop development, but minimize its impact on agricultural land, both in terms of acres lost and secondary impacts ...

New Report Explores Future of Florida's Agricultural Land

In the report, researchers project a potential loss of up to 2.2 million acres of agricultural land over the coming decades.

Oregon continues to lose farmland, some advocates say that raises ...

Farmland conservation advocates say Oregon's land use planning program has historically done a good job at protecting farmland. But they say ...

Farmland Conservation - Community Food & Agriculture Coalition

Why Conserve Farmland? ... With western Montana's agricultural lands disappearing at such alarming rates, one might ask why does farmland matter? In fact, some ...

Study finds agricultural land provides a net benefit to Wake County

Agricultural land generates revenue for the county, yet costs less to service · For each $1 of revenue from residential land, the county spent ...

ISDA: Inventory of Lost Farmland - Indiana State Government

ISDA determined through the Inventory of Lost Farmland that there has been an overall reduction of farmland acres of approximately 1.5-2% from 2010-2022.

NC Farmland Loss | NC State Extension

But by 2040, that acreage will be reduced to 4,750,413, a loss of 1,197,300 acres, if estimates are correct in a recent report by American Farmland Trust (AFT), ...

We're losing farmland in the Treasure Valley - The Blue Review

The valley currently has 387,320 acres of farmland. Looking back, from 1969 to 2012, Ada and Canyon counties lost about 30 percent of their farm ...

Protecting California Farmland and Ranchland

Approximately 39,000 of these acres are lost to urban development. Yet, an ... the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation. Program (SALC) at the ...

Prime Farmland Lost to Land Idling, Habitat Conversion, Urbanization

Between 1984 and 2010, 1.1 million acres of farmland have been lost to urbanization. The DoC attributes the slowed rate of urban development to ...

Land Use - Farmland Loss Threatens Food Supply

The world will lose about 250 million crop-production acres by 2050, according to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Land use in agriculture by the numbers

Land conversion from natural ecosystems to agriculture has historically been the largest cause of greenhouse gas emissions), linked to loss of ...

Agricultural Land Preservation - Ventura County General Plan

Regarding impacts to agricultural soils, the ISAGs state that any project that would result in the direct and/or indirect loss of soils designated Prime, ...

Benefits of Farmland Conservation in california

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) documented a loss of 2.2 million acres of farmed land from 2002 to 2012; most of that loss occurred ...

U.S. Farmland is Rapidly Decreasing - Giving Compass

In less than a generation, the United States lost 11 million acres of its best farmland to the expanding U.S. cities and towns. Urban sprawl has absorbed ...

Agricultural Conservation Easement Program

Agricultural Land Easements (ALE) help private and tribal landowners, land trusts, and other entities such as state and local governments protect croplands and ...