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Setting the Standard for Farmland Preservation: Do Preservation Criteria Motivate Citizen Support for Farmland Preservation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

B. James Deaton ,
Patricia E. Norris  and
John P. Hoehn
B. James Deaton
Affiliation:
Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University
Patricia E. Norris
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
John P. Hoehn
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
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Abstract

The multifunctional set of services provided by farmland complicates the task of identifying which farmland should be preserved. For this reason many states and local governments establish criteria to rank and select parcels of farmland for protection. This study examines whether criteria commonly used by state programs to guide purchases of agricultural conservation easements influence public demand for farmland preservation. The results provide policy makers with additional information to assess current ranking criteria that set the standard for farmland preservation.

Keywords

farmlandfarmland attributesPACE programsprobit modelstandards

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , October 2003 , pp. 272 - 281
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Copyright © 2003 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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