Agricultural Land Loss and Conservation
Loss of US Farmland in the 21st Century: The National Perspective ...
The 2022 Agricultural Census reported 880 million acres of land in US farms, or 75 million fewer acres than the 1997 Agricultural Census (see ...
What's at stake when we lose land - Land Trust Alliance
With every acre of land lost to poorly planned development, we diminish our connection to nature, wipe out family farms, destroy valuable wildlife habitats.
Farms Under Threat - American Farmland Trust
Farms Under Threat is AFT's multi-year effort to advance cutting-edge solutions for farmland protection. We use high-resolution spatial analysis tools.
Agricultural Land Loss and Conservation
Agricultural Land Loss & Conservation. Of California's approximately 100 million acres of land, 43 million acres are used for agriculture. Of this, 16 ...
Fertile soil is a dynamic living resource. It forms slowly and its loss threatens the world's supply of arable land for generations. Less than 20% of American ...
America's Disappearing Farm and Range Land - GAP Initiative
More than 31 million acres of US agricultural land have been irrevocably lost to urban expansion since 1982 and an additional 175 acres of farm and ranchland ...
Farms Under Threat: Biodiversity and Agriculture
Maintaining suitable habitat across a variety of land ownership types, land uses and spatial scales will be critical in halting the accelerated loss of ...
Farmland, examines the nation's irreversible loss of agricultural land to ... improve agricultural land conservation and permanent protection across the nation.
Farmland Protection - American Planning Association
Recognizing the long-term economic, environmental, and social costs of this loss, many communities have taken steps to protect agricultural lands. Local ...
Agricultural Land Lost to Development in the Midwest - farmdoc daily
Of the agricultural land lost, 877,386 acres (55% of 1,595,655) were converted into developed land, likely due to urbanization, infrastructure ...
Why Preserve Farmland? - WeConservePA Library
It aims to secure enough farms as permanent anchors so that people can see that their local farm economy can weather the loss of a number of non ...
5 key findings from farmland loss report - Farm Progress
Plenty can be done to slow the loss of agricultural land, much of which already falls under American Farmland Trust's day-to-day mission. However, more support ...
The US Lost 1.3 Million Acres Of Farmland In 2021 - Yahoo Finance
Farms producing low yields are often retired into the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program. Farmers enrolled in this program agree to remove ...
Farmland Protection Policy Act | Natural Resources Conservation ...
The FPPA is intended to minimize the impact Federal programs have on the unnecessary and irreversible conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses.
Purchase of agricultural conservation easement (PACE) programs (aka Purchase of Development Rights) that permanently protect working farmland and ranchland, ...
Agricultural District Programs Provide Flexible Options for Farmland ...
Conservation easements (CEs) have become a popular option for farmland preservation. Many areas attempt to limit farmland loss through programs that provide ...
Offsetting Agricultural Land Loss Stemming from New Development
Every hour, 180 acres of farm and ranch are lost to development for other uses.[1] This equates to over 30 million acres since 1982 – about the ...
Smart solutions to farmland loss - Farm Progress
Two primary culprits in unnecessary prime farmland loss include low-density residential development and solar farms.
US lost 11 million acres of farmland to development in past 2 decades
The United States has lost more than 11 million of acres of farmland to development over the last 20 years, according to a new report.
Estimating the parcel-level impacts of agricultural conservation ...
Our empirical results suggest that agricultural conservation easements have reduced farmland loss to development.