A new method is used to evaluate the strategic value of Fresno County farmland

Schmidt, Evan E.; Thorne, James H.; Huber, Patrick R.; Roth, Nathaniel; Thompson, Edward Maunde; McCoy, Michael

doi:10.3733/ca.v064n03p129

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“…These approaches address methodological issues identified in previous comparative approaches based mostly on statistical indicators or local maps [100]. They have been used to develop international comparative approaches of land-use changes [102] and to integrate environmental and human variables in strategic farmland characterization maps [109,111].…”

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Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Perrin

Clément

Melot

et al. 2020

Land

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This paper reviews the recent literature dealing with farmland protection (FP) policies in developed countries from a planning perspective, with a specific focus on the Mediterranean region. It provides coverage of French language papers that may have been omitted in previous reviews. While the Mediterranean is often pointed out as a region with acute challenges related to food security and a lack of effective planning policies, the literature underlines that issues related to FP policies are similar across the world. Hence, this review may bring valuable insights for more sustainable management of farmland on the urban fringe. It maps several interesting areas of research concerning the often implicit and disparate rationales of FP policies as well as the barriers and potential avenues for improvement for FP. It highlights that FP cannot rely merely on transferring policy tools that have proven successful elsewhere. It also reveals that land policies do not always take into account the specific needs of farming systems, as they often focus on land rather than on agriculture. Further research is thus needed to reveal the interaction over time between the use of certain FP tools and the unique local features of urban fringe agriculture. This review may be of interest to students and scholars, but also to practitioners, policy makers and local groups looking for innovative, more flexible or locally suited farmland protection programs.

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Section: Integrating Social Data Into Spatial Modelingmentioning

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Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Perrin

Clément

Melot

et al. 2020

Land

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“…Since 1999, satellite image-based land use change monitoring has been carried out annually. Similar to the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP) in California, USA, which biennially tracks changes in agricultural and other land uses [110], China's satellite-image based land use monitoring has been implemented annually and was enlarged to cover the whole of mainland China in 2009. As one study indicated, periodic monitoring and inspection is important for compliance and violation reduction [43].…”

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The Impacts on Illegal Farmland Conversion of Adopting Remote Sensing Technology for Land Inspection in China

Zhong

Huang

et al. 2014

Sustainability

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While China's central government has adopted remote sensing technology in land inspection since 2000, little empirical research has been done on its effect. This study aims to measure the effect of satellite imagery-based land inspection (SIBI) on illegal farmland conversion. The data used in this study were collected for the period from 1997 to 2010 at the province-level. The econometrics approach for panel data model was used in this research. The results showed that SIBI has a deterrent effect of approximately 2.42 ha for every increase of 1% in proportion to the area of prefecture-level regions inspected in a province-level region. The results also indicate land inspections with RS (Remote Sensing) technology saved approximately 11,880 ha farmland from illegal conversion during 2000-2010 with an estimated contribution of reducing illegal farmland conversion by nearly 11%. Furthermore, the governance structure change for land inspection has also contributed to deterring illegal farmland conversion. The deterrent effects due to land inspection by the Supervisor of State Land (SSL) are about 7332 ha during 2008-2010 with an estimated contribution of reducing illegal farmland conversion by nearly 33%. In conclusion, although SIBI has strengthened China's central capacity to uncover illegal farmland conversion and weakened local governments' abilities to hide illegal farmland conversion, it has limited impact on illegal farmland conversion since it is just a technical tool. Improvements in the land inspection governance structure have also helped to deter illegal farmland conversion.

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“…The cultivated land site assessment (SA) mainly consists of the assessment of the surrounding, locational, and ecological conditions of the cultivated land in question. The SA system is often based on comprehensive tools and multi-objective methods, such as GIS and remote sensing technology [21][22][23][24]. Through this evaluation model, the SA system is constructed based on different landform types [25].…”

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Spatial Analysis of Cultivated Land Productivity, Site Condition and Cultivated Land Health at County Scale

Dai

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Cultivated land is a fundamental factor related to the social stability and sustainable development of the whole country. However, the safety of quantity and quality of cultivated land has decreased year by year, resulting in great challenges to the sustainable development of cultivated land. Cultivated land productivity, site conditions, and soil health jointly determine the sustainable development potential of cultivated land. Analyzing and calculating the coupling and cooperative relationship between these three subsystems can provide a theoretical and methodological reference for protecting and zoning cultivated land resources. Using Jiangyou City as a case study, this paper constructs a coupling coordination degree model of cultivated land productivity, site conditions, and soil health assessment systems in different geomorphic regions, and comprehensively analyzes the level of sustainable development of cultivated land in the study area. The results show that there are differences in the development potential of cultivated land resources in the mountainous regions in the north, the hilly regions in the center, and the plain regions in the south of Jiangyou City. The coupling coordination index of the three regions were calculated as 0.34, 0.51, and 0.63, respectively, for which the overall average coupling coordination index is 0.57; notably, it only reaches the “barely coordination” level. Based on our analysis results, the cultivated lands in Jiangyou City are classified into the following zones: core protection zone, dominant remediation zone, and key regulation zone. The cultivated land located in the core protection zone has a high coupling coordination index, which can be used as the preferred area for the delimitation of high standard basic farmland and permanent basic farmland. For the cultivated land located in the dominant remediation zone, the development of its subsystems is unbalanced. Comprehensive land improvement projects can be carried out in this zone to improve the overall quality. For the cultivated land located in the key regulation zone, it is recommended to implement projects such as returning farmland to forests to improve land use efficiency. In particular, the evaluation index system constructed in this paper is sufficiently representative, as it can support the classification, quality improvement, and sustainable use of cultivated land. Thus, other similar countries and regions can learn from the evaluation system constructed in this paper.

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A new method is used to evaluate the strategic value of Fresno County farmland

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

The Impacts on Illegal Farmland Conversion of Adopting Remote Sensing Technology for Land Inspection in China

Spatial Analysis of Cultivated Land Productivity, Site Condition and Cultivated Land Health at County Scale

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