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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Hobby Farms and British Columbia'a Agricultural Land Reserve
Autores: | Stobbe,   Tracy; Eagle,   Alison J.; van Kooten,   G. Cornelis.
Data: | 2008-08-06
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Hobby farmers; Agricultural Land Reserve; Geographical Information System; Urban-rural fringe; Zoning systems; Farmland fragmentation; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; R11; R15; C50; R14.
Resumo: | Agricultural land protection near the urban-rural fringe is a goal of many jurisdictions, including British Columbia, Canada, which uses a provincial-wide zoning scheme to prevent subdivisions and non-agricultural uses of the land. Preferential taxes are also used to encourage agricultural use of the land. Small scale hobby farmers are present at the urban fringe near Victoria (the capital), both inside and outside of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). The goal of this paper is to investigate whether hobby farms create problems for agricultural land preservation. We make use of a GIS (geographic information system) model to construct detailed spatial variables and analyse our parcel-level data set using an hedonic pricing model and a limited dependent variable model. The results show that hobby farmers tend to select small parcels that are near open space and relatively close to the city and they tend to support horses and other livestock. In terms of price, farmland is worth more per ha the smaller the parcel is and the closer it is to the city. In general farmland is worth more when it is less fragmented but this appears to be reversed for hobby farms – indicating that hobby farmers may be better adapted to surviving in the urban fringe than conventional farmers. The conclusions drawn from the results in this paper would likely apply to other jurisdictions which seek to protect agricultural land in the urban fringe.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/42244

Relação:

University of Victoria&gt;Resource Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group&gt;Working Papers

REPA Working Paper

2008-01A

Formato: | 31