Effects of Urbanization on Agricultural Activities

Berry, David

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1978.tb01024.x

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“…These urban influences reduce agricultural productivity and the value of land for agricultural uses. Simi lar concerns are expressed by Libby (1974), Berry (1976Berry ( , 1978 and Coughlin, et ale (1977).…”

Section: Preserving Open Spaces and Related Public Goods And Amenitiesmentioning

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“…The expectation by farmers to cash in on these apparent profits led Coughlin (1977) to coin the term "impermanence syndrome" to describe how farmers anticipate urbanization and the resulting change in social and economic conditions. Work by Berry (1978) and Plaut (1976) indic?te that when farmland owners anticipate converting their land to urban uses, they begin disinvesting in agricultural inputs, and farmland production gradually declines until it ultimately idles.…”

Section: Perceptions Of Urban Sprawl and Oregon1s Efforts To Contain Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mattingly (l972) rerorted declining agricultural land use intensity and an increasing incidence of "part-time" farming with increasing proximity to urban development in the Rockford, Illinois, area. Berry, et ale (1976) and Berry (1978) The market value, R m , and agricultural use value, R g , of land proximate to urban development at uO· (see, e.g., Hall, et al, 1973). While complex and subsequently modified several times, two of the Act's features are relevant here.…”

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Evaluating urban containment programs

Nelson¹

2000

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Urban containment programs may be evaluated in terms of a theory unifying contributions from the economic, geographic and political science disciplines. The unified theory shows that successful programs will segment the urban-rural land market, remove speculative use value of rural land, and result in the urban land market valuing greenbelt proximity as an amenity.A general model to test urban containment programs against the unified theory is developed and then modified for application to Salem, Oregon. Results are fourfold. First, a gap in the locus of 2 urban and rural land values at the UGB indicates that segmentation of the urban-rural land market is associated with urban containment policies. Second, the simultaneous effect of imposing a UGB proximate to urban development and subjecting rural land to conservancy zoning is to remove the speculative value component of rural land and reveal Sinclair's (1967) underlying convex quadratic agricultural use land value gradient. This finding is important in two respects: (a) it confirms the possibi 1 ity of Sinclair's gradient, which has not been supported empirically hitherto, and (b) it suggests that a program's success in preserving greenbelt land solely for agricultural uses can be evidenced if Sinclair's gradient is revealed. Third, the conditions under which a program may fail to preserve rural land from speculative behavior will be evidenced by the traditional negatively sloping land value gradient. Fourth, where urban development is proximate to a UGB delineating greenbelts, the urban land market will value its proximity as an amenity. This finding is important in two respects: (a) it suggests that proximity to privately owned greenbelts may be valued as an amenity in the urban land market, a finding which has not been reported empirically hitherto, and (b) if an urban land market has confidence in the ability of an urban containment program to prevent sprawl into greenbelts, then it will treat greenbelt proximity as an amenity. The unified theory and methodology developed by this dissertation are generalizable to the evaluation of other urban containment ~rograms. (1) the containment of urbanization within urban growth boundaries (UGBs) and (2) the preservat-jQn of farmland solely for farm uses. Acknowled9'llE!"tsIn the first regard, Oregon's planning program specifically intends to segment the urban-rural fringe land market into distinctive urban and rural submarkets, which is largely accomplished by limiting urban services and urban development to land within a UGB. Second, because the majority of the state's growth occurs in the fertile Wi1lametteValley, Oregon's program specifically intends to protect this farmland from speculators. This is largely accomplished by imposing exceedingly restrictive "exclusive farm use" (EFU) zoning on prime agricultural farmland proximate to urban areas, and this also has the effect of creating a system of greenbelts between urban areas.Hitherto, empirically sound research demonstrating the performance of Oregon's plan...

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Section: Perceptions Of Urban Sprawl and Oregon1s Efforts To Contain Itmentioning

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Evaluating urban containment programs

Nelson¹

2000

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“…In fact, a substantial proportion of U.S. agricultural sales and a great majority of U.S. fruit and vegetable sales occur in metropolitan counties (Thomas & Howell, 2003). There are unique opportunities associated with farming in these counties, such as easy access to large, urban markets; but there are challenges as well, such as having to contend with large nonfarm populations and development (Sharp & Smith, 2004;Berry, 1978). Analysis of recent Census of Agriculture data suggests that many farmers are successfully adapting to the opportunities and challenges at the RUI (JacksonSmith & Sharp, 2008), though the pattern of farm change can vary widely across urbanizing landscapes.…”

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Agricultural Economic Development at the Rural-Urban Interface: Community Organization, Policy, and Agricultural Change

Sharp

Jackson-Smith

Smith

2011

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Utilizing data from a survey of key informants from U.S. counties at the rural-urban interface (RUI) with substantial agricultural production, this paper explores the relationship between the existence of formal organizations focused on agricultural economic development or food policy and the existence of other types of farm business or local food-system development programs. The research draws on concepts associated with traditional community-development theory and tests whether there is a relationship between the existence of social organizational capacity and various activities and outcomes. The analysis includes descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses of data from over 500 U.S. counties located at the RUI. We find that counties that have formally organized, such as through the formation of a committee to support agricultural economic development or the formation of a food policy council, also have more agricultural business and local food-system development programs and policies. We also find that the counties with greater formal organizational development in support of agriculture are counties with larger populations, greater rural population densities, and larger numbers of farms compared to counties with less organizational development. We also find that the existence of these organizations is associated with greater optimism about the future of local agricula Corresponding author: Associate Professor of Rural Sociology,

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“…Farming at the fringe of urban areas is often viewed through a fatalistic lens, framed by expectations of declining agricultural support infrastructure, more numerous conflicts with nonfarmer neighbors, and heightened competition for increasingly scarce, fragmented, and expensive farmland (Berry, 1978;Daniels & Bowers, 1997;Lopez, Adelaja & Andrews, 1988). This cycle of agricultural decline culminates with the conversion of farmland to nonagricultural "highest-and-best" developed uses.…”

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