Do Agricultural Land Preservation Programs Reduce Overall Farmland Loss?

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2012-07-20Author
Lynch, Lori
Liu, Xiangping
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Volume 1, Issue 12
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When purchase of development rights (PDR) programs are in place to prevent farmland from being developed into commercial or residential property, you would expect that less farmland would be converted. But are these programs actually working? Dr. Lori Lynch at the University of Maryland finds out.