Embedded Files
If Navigation Menu is not displayed, click on three horizontal bars on the top left below this banner.
Why Preserve Farmland?
Why Preserve Farmland?
The Costs of Sprawl in Delaware - 2016, Sierra Club
The Costs of Sprawl in Delaware - 2016, Sierra Club
the-costs-of-sprawl-in-delaware.pdfFarms Under Threat 2040: Maryland and Delaware State Webinar
Farms Under Threat 2040: Maryland and Delaware State Webinar
7/20/2022
America’s farm and ranch lands are rapidly disappearing, threatening our rural communities and agricultural economy, jeopardizing future food security, and increasing vulnerability to extreme weather events. States face a choice: let poorly planned development of this vulnerable resource continue or work to safeguard more farmland through better land-use planning and additional farmland protection tools. Farms Under Threat 2040: Choosing an Abundant Future, a new report from American Farmland Trust, maps three alternative futures out to the year 2040.
AFT’s National Agricultural Land Network explores highlights of the report’s findings for 35 states and what they mean for the future of agriculture. In this free, one-hour webinar you will learn more about the scenarios mapped, the methodology behind the scenarios, and how to dive deeper into the data.
Coastal towns worldwide are now known to be sinking, in some places, at a faster pace than even the rising of the sea level - a double whammy!
We are losing farmlands as well.
AFT's Recommendations:
Encourage Smart Growth
Protect Agricultural Land
Advance Smart Solar Siting
Support Farmland Access
Protected Agricultural Lands Database
Protected Agricultural Lands Database
https://farmlandinfo.org/statistics/pald/
The PALD is designed to complement and integrate with other efforts to inventory protected lands across the U.S. It incorporates data from the U.S. Protected Areas Database (PAD-US), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Easement Programs, the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED), state and regional protected area inventories, state and local agricultural land conservation programs, and private land trusts. The PALD was created with funding support from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The map can be clicked for the details of each protected Ag land.
Most of the protected farmlands in Delaware are in Kent and New Castle Counties!
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse