Farms Under Threat 2040: Choosing an Abundant Future
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About This Report / White Paper
America’s farm and ranch lands are rapidly disappearing, threatening our rural communities and agricultural economy, and jeopardizing our very future. “Farms Under Threat 2040: Choosing an Abundant Future,” a new report and web mapping tool from American Farmland Trust (AFT), explains how smart growth and investment in America’s downtowns and main streets must occur now to secure the land that grows our food.
The AFT report uses high-resolution spatial analysis tools to identify where U.S. agricultural land has been converted to urban and low-density residential land uses. The report projects this data into the future to present three alternative development scenarios: business as usual, runaway sprawl and better built cities. The report shows that development choices have a significant effect on the future of working lands and urges Americans to embrace Better Built Cities to safeguard local farms and ranches, bolster the global food system and improve peoples’ daily lives.
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