Focus Issues: Community and Economic Development , Transportation, Climate Change, and Land Use ,

Edward Thompson, Jr. of American Farmland Trust explains how the sustainability of American agriculture is being compromised as more and more land is lost to sprawling development. This loss accelerates as public policies favor development over agriculture. Successful protection programs are hybrids that combine substantial financial incentives to landowners with effective land use regulation.

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