Utah’s Greenbelt Program Has Caused Unintended Effects on Farmland Protection

Man Li, Wai Yan Siu and Arthur J. Capla

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2024, vol. 39, issue 03

Abstract: Since the 1950s, the amount of farmland in the United States has decreased continually every year. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, total farm acreage nationwide fell by 74.7 million acres, an area the size of Nevada, between 1997 and 2022. Utah is among the states that lost farmland during this period, experiencing a decline of 13%, primarily because of urban expansion (Siu, Li, and Caplan, 2023). This trend raises concerns about the effectiveness of the state’s farmland protection policies.

Keywords: Land; Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.344746

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