North American farmland protection strategies in retrospect

Bryant, Christopher; Russwurm, Lorne H.

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“…A significant volume of the legislative activity that has led to laws for the conservation of high quality agricultural land has in effect gone even further and led to rules and regulations in land use planning that have favoured large scale capitalistic farm operations. Pertinent examples of this in Canada are the laws established in the Provinces of British Columbia (1973) and Québec (1978); while not based on a specific law for the protection of agricultural land, the Province of Ontario adopted strong advice to regional municipalities in 1978 that effectively led to the same situation [6]. Similar observations can be made about legislation for protecting farmland in several U.S. States.…”

Section: Farmland Protection Policies and Supportmentioning

confidence: 80%

The Unintended Negative Consequences of Government Actions and Initiatives in Selected Environmental, Social and Economic Domains: Opportunities for Co-construction Approaches

Bryant¹,

Akkari²,

Bousbaine³

et al. 2017

JSSP

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Section: Farmland Protection Policies and Supportmentioning

confidence: 80%

The Unintended Negative Consequences of Government Actions and Initiatives in Selected Environmental, Social and Economic Domains: Opportunities for Co-construction Approaches

Bryant¹,

Akkari²,

Bousbaine³

et al. 2017

JSSP

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“…Certainly, land use planning has been considered as a major tool, for instance through legislation to protect farmland (notably in different parts of North America) as well as through strong governmental efforts to ensure effective land use planning in agricultural zones even if there was not specific farmland protection legislation in place [15]. In France as early as the 1990s, the agricultural development issue began to be integrated into Land Use Plans, and agri-urban programs began to be put in place to limit urban sprawl and support the protection of good farmland and healthy agricultural products [16].…”

Section: Why It Appears Necessary To Consider Agricultural Developmenmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Can Agricultural Land Use Planning Contribute to Food Production and Food Policy?

Bousbaine

2017

IJAWB

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Food Security and Food Sovereignty are two of the most important issues facing Food Policy. Maintaining productive farmland and sustainable farms as well as providing adequate volumes of foodstuffs have led to measures to protect farmland and farm activities in many countries. These include land use planning with agricultural zones and in some jurisdictions legislation to 'protect' agriculture in agricultural reserves. Are these tools adequate to maintain sustainable agricultures particularly around major urban and metropolitan centers. Agricultural zones and agricultural reserves in many jurisdictions have continued to experience removal of farmland in order to permit different types of urban development (e.g. residential development and industrial parks). An emerging response to this has been the integration of strategic development planning for agriculture in certain jurisdictions (e.g. the province of Quebec (Canada)), because this approach can integrate the necessary parameters to enable the development of sustainable agricultures, including how to respond to opportunities as well as adapting to emerging stressors. This approach also ideally requires the integration of farmers and their families as actors and participants in the strategic development planning process.

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“…The wide literature on rural development (e.g. Antony, 2004;Bryant & Russwurm, 1999;Conyers, 1985;Terluin, 2003) points out that the heterogeneous character of the rural areas dictates a differential and flexible policy allowing its implementation according to the individual various physical, demographic, institutional, cultural, and geo-political conditions. Therefore, the settling authorities in Israel were looking to update the national rural development policy, regardless of the large population absorption capacity, and to base it on the individual needs and situations of the rural settlements.…”

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Demographic sustainability and rural development policy

Stern

2013

Journal of Maps

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This paper develops the notion, and demonstrates the use, of 'demographic sustainability' in updating the national policy for rural development in northern Israel. The current national master plan defines a maximum growth size allowed for each settlement in both the urban and the rural sectors. The growth size policy is solely based on geo-political considerations. Although, aggregatively, the northern rural periphery still has a large population absorption capacity, the overall policy does not fit to the local potential and the individual needs and wills of many settlements. The wide literature on rural development points out that the heterogeneous character of the rural areas dictates a differential and flexible policy allowing its implementation according to the individual various physical, demographic, institutional, cultural, and geo-political conditions. Israel's northern rural periphery is not excluded in that regard and therefore, its settling authorities were looking to update the rural development policy. A GIS-based spatial search and mapping procedure was developed to identify and map the settlements in rank order of intervening needs in population policy. The procedure is focusing around three pivots: accelerators, limitations, and opportunities. Accelerators are the main reason for policy update and include the individual levels of demographic sustainability and relative free absorption capacity of each settlement. Demographic sustainability is defined by the type and the size of the local 'dependency ratio' in order to ensure a multi-age structure and generational continuity of rural settlements in the national periphery. Limitations include environmental sensitivity to development and large absorption capacities. Opportunities include small absorption capacities and favorite conditions for settlement clustering. A three-stage sieving procedure, according to the three pivots, enabled to produce a final map showing, in a descending-order, the need for policy intervention of each settlement. Practically, the map exhibits the role of demographic sustainability in directing the development policy in a, most frequently, losing-population rural region.

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North American farmland protection strategies in retrospect

Cited by 24 publications

References 7 publications

The Unintended Negative Consequences of Government Actions and Initiatives in Selected Environmental, Social and Economic Domains: Opportunities for Co-construction Approaches

The Unintended Negative Consequences of Government Actions and Initiatives in Selected Environmental, Social and Economic Domains: Opportunities for Co-construction Approaches

What Can Agricultural Land Use Planning Contribute to Food Production and Food Policy?

Demographic sustainability and rural development policy

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