{"product_id":"the-vanishing-farmland-crisis-critical-views-of-the-movement-to-preserve-agricultural-land-9780700631384","title":"The Vanishing Farmland Crisis: Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Baden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1979 publication \u003ci\u003eWhere Have All the Farmlands Gone?\u003c\/i\u003e by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered--and as the direct prelude to a nation-wide shortage of both food and fiber. The NALS report, to which eleven federal agencies contributed, argued that land-use planning and control must be employed to protect valuable farmland from \"urban sprawl.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1984, this collection of essays by a distinguished group of economists, including Theodore W. Schultz, Julian L. Simon, and Pierre Crosson, takes issue with the belief that croplands need governmental protection. Rather, the collection as a whole supports two theses: 1) shrinking farm acreage is not a serious problem, and 2) individual choices by landowners in a free market setting result in better-organized land use than would governmental land-use planning and regulation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46417463050391,"sku":"9780700631384","price":2908.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780700631384.webp?v=1769067454","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-vanishing-farmland-crisis-critical-views-of-the-movement-to-preserve-agricultural-land-9780700631384","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}