Beyond the land issue: farm viability strategies

Lapping, Mark B.; FitzSimons, John

doi:10.1007/bf00425315

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“…In addition to the physical pressures, these urbanadjacent farmlands face additional challenges, including conflicts with non-farm neighbors over odor and noise; vandalism; local planning zoning laws that curtail agriculture and agriculture-related activities; and limited access to agriculture-related suppliers, capital, and services (Inwood & Sharp, 2012). Lapping and FitzSimons (1982) argue that any policy or programmatic efforts to retain or preserve farmland must focus on improving the economic viability of agriculture. To this end, urban-adjacent farmlands often have the greatest economic potential because of their location on some of the nation's most productive soils (American Farmland Trust, n.d.).…”

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Finding Common Ground: Defining Agricultural Viability and Streamlining Multi-organization Data Collection

Christensen

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2019

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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In 2011, the state of Washington created the Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP), a collaborative and incentive-based approach to land-use management with the goal of protecting critical areas while maintaining and improving the viability of agriculture. Agricultural viability is an attractive ideal supported by a variety of stakeholder groups. Narrowly defined, agricultural viability is the ability of a farmer or a group of farmers to maintain an economically viable farm business. Yet, many feel this definition does not go far enough to reflect the long-term viability of agriculture in a community. It is, however, difficult to develop a broader shared definition and strategies to evaluate successful implementation of programs to achieve viability across multiple organizations. This paper explores how one county in Washington state organized a multistakeholder engagement process, employing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural and Marketing Service (AMS) Toolkit (Thilmany McFadden et al., 2016) to define and measure agricultural viability. The process included collaborative design and implementation of an agricultural viability survey in San Juan County, Washington. We frame our reflective piece within

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Finding Common Ground: Defining Agricultural Viability and Streamlining Multi-organization Data Collection

Christensen

Limbach²

2019

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…The decline of the family farm in North America, the conversion of rural lands to nonagricultural uses, increasing costs for production inputs coupled with volatile prices for agricultural commodities, and the full integration of agritood sectors into domestic and international economies represent some of the important socioeconomic challenges confronting contemporary food production systems (Ashmead 1986, Avery 1985, Berry 1984, Hedley 1985, Heffernan and Elder 1987, Farrell 1988, Lapping and FitzSimons 1982.…”

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Review and appraisal of concept of sustainable food production systems

Brklacich

Bryant

Smit

1991

Environmental Management

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/ Environmental degradation, competition for resources, increasing food demands, and the integration of agriculture into the international economy threaten the sustainability of many food production systems. Despite these concerns, the concept of sustainable food production systems remains unclear, and recent attempts to appraise sustainability have been hampered by conceptual inconsistencies and the absence of workable definitions. Six perspectives are shown to underpin the concept. Environmental accounting identifies biophysical limits for agriculture. Sustained yield refers to output levels that can be maintained continuously. Carrying capacity defines maximum population levels that can be supported in perpetuity. Production unit viability refers to the capacity of primary producers to remain in agriculture. Product supply and security focuses on the adequacy of food supplies. Equity is concerned with the spatial and temporal distribution of products derived from resource use. Many studies into sustainable agriculture cover more than one of these perspectives, indicating the concept is complex and embraces issues relating to the biophysical, social, and economic environments. Clarification of the concept would facilitate the development of frameworks and analytical systems for appraising the sustainability of food production systems.

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State farmland preservation programs within the upper Mississippi river basin: A comparison

Rozenbaum

Reganold

1986

Landscape Planning

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Beyond the land issue: farm viability strategies

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Finding Common Ground: Defining Agricultural Viability and Streamlining Multi-organization Data Collection

Finding Common Ground: Defining Agricultural Viability and Streamlining Multi-organization Data Collection

Review and appraisal of concept of sustainable food production systems

State farmland preservation programs within the upper Mississippi river basin: A comparison

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