The Vanishing Farmland Crisis Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land

• Other Authors: Baden, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence (Kansas) University Press of Kansas 1984
• Subjects: Food & society; Agriculture; United States of America; Farming industry; National Agricultural Lands Study
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered-and as the direct prelude to a nationwide shortage of both food...