Download or read book An Analysis of Farmland Preservation Techniques in the United States at State and Local Levels written by Angela Kay Wolosiewicz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holding Our Ground written by Deborah Bowers and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers, who own or rent most of the private land in America, hold the key not only to the nation's food supply, but also to managing community growth, maintaining an attractive landscape, and protecting water and wildlife resources. While the issue of protecting farmland and open space is not new, the intensity of the challenge has increased. Farmers are harder pressed to make a living, and rural and suburban communities are struggling to accommodate increasing populations and the development that comes with them. Holding Our Ground can help landowners and communities devise and implement effective strategies for protecting farmland. The book: discusses the reasons for protecting farmland and how to make those reasons widely known and understood describes the business of farming, federal government farm programs, and the role of land in farmers's decisions analyzes federal, state, and local farmland protection efforts and techniques explores a variety of land protection options including purchase of development rights; transfer of development rights; private land trusts; and financial, tax, and estate planning reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the farmland protection tools available The authors describe the many challenges involved in protecting farmland and explain how to create a package of techniques that can meet those challenges. In addition, they offer appendixes with model zoning ordinances, nuisance disclaimers, conservation easements, and other documents that individuals and communities need to carry out the programs discussed. Holding Our Ground provides citizens, elected officials, planners, and landowners with a solid basis for understanding the issues behind farmland protection, and will be an invaluable resource in developing techniques and programs for achieving long-term protection goals.
Download or read book The Protection of Farmland written by Robert E. Coughlin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban fringe Landowners Preferences for Particular Farmland Preservation Programs written by Qing Bai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmland preservation policies and programs have been in place at the national, state, and local levels since the 1970s in the United States. Features in landowners' stated preferences for these programs are critical in evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency in designing and implementing these policy programs. Quite a few behavioral studies have already been done in this field. However, most of these studies were associated with an implicit assumption--Independent and Identical Distribution (IID) in setting up choice models. This assumption not only eliminates the variation in the personal preference for a farmland preservation program among individuals, but also denies the interdependence among an individual landowner's preferences for several preservation programs. Technically, this assumption introduces bias and inefficiency into modeling. Without convincible justification, the involvement of IID could lead to biased model estimates and distort the interpretation. Unfortunately, such justification is barely mentioned and/or addressed at all in these studies. People are different, so do their preferences. Moreover, personal preferences for several preservation programs are simultaneously constrained by one's social-economic context. With such acknowledgements, both the variation in the personal preference for a farmland program and the interdependences among preferences for several programs are particular of the interest in this research. A modeling framework centering on a system of heteroscedastic probit models is calibrated to achieve unbiasedness and efficiency in implementing and evaluating preservation programs. A dataset from the state-level urban-fringe landowners' survey in 2001 and 2002 collected by the research team in American Farmland Trust (AFT) is used in this research. The survey covers fifty metropolitan counties in five states, i.e., Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Texas, and California. 1617 landowners were contacted either by phone calls or by mail. Farmland preservation programs concerned in the survey includes the agricultural zoning, the Purchase of Development Rights, the Purchase of Conservation Easements in California, and the use-value taxation programs. The personal preference for a preservation program is expected to be influenced by owners' social-economic circumstances, farmland characteristics, objectives of land ownership, and local social-economic conditions. Significant findings of related factors in shaping a landowner's preference for a preservation program from literature are referred for its generalization meanings. The result shows that the modeling framework based on a system of heteroscedastic probit models succeeds in explicitly capturing variations in and interdependence among personal preferences for several farmland preservation programs. The modeling framework can be generalized regardless of the geographic settings, i.e., state-level and/or county-level. The significance and magnitude of an individual factor effecting on one's preference for a preservation program, however, cannot be generalized across geographic boundaries, i.e., they are more of localized. Meanwhile, findings of the effect of individual factors are not precisely consistent with those from other studies. Suggestions for effective and efficient policy implementation are derived from findings of effects of individual factors on personal preferences for preservation programs. The dissertation consists of five chapters. The first two briefly describe the history of farmland preservation programs and the necessity of policy evaluation in the United States. Chapter three mainly puts efforts in describing and comparing features of available discrete choice models in dealing with complicated individual behaviors, and then a desired modeling framework is carefully described in details. Chapter four reports the model calibration process and model estimates with empirical data. Propositions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the policy implementation are also delivered here. The final chapter makes conclusion about the generalization of findings and gives hints for the future study.
Download or read book Agricultural Land Preservation Programs written by Stephen John Myers and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Review of Recent Strategies Used for the Preservation of Farmland written by Paul N. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmland Preservation written by Alicia Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmland Preservation Directory written by Northeast Farmland Preservation Project and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masters Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Protection of Farmland written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmland Protection Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Food Systems Concepts Impacts and Issues written by Steve Martinez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.
Download or read book The Preservation and Control of Farmland written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmland Preservation written by Jane Potter Gates and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmland Preservation written by Jayne T. MacLean and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmland preservation and conversion written by Blondel Averil Brinkman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Considerations for Farmland Preservation Techniques written by Ryan P. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
