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FEDERAL and state governments encourage farmers to implement soil and water conservation programs voluntarily through the use of moral suasion and economic incentives. In recent years farmland protection policy has been established by the federal government and farmland protection policy and preservation programs have been established by state governments to slow the loss of agricultural land through conversion to nonagricultural uses. While these programs all have valid natural resource conservation objectives, many of the programs are often implemented inconsistently by different agencies at and within different levels of government, with little regard for their effect on other programs. Recent gains under the Conservation Title of the Food Security Act of 1985 (FSA) in reducing soil erosion do not eliminate the need in many communities to preserve farming on erodible land and to reduce agricultural runoff. More coordination between these programs is required if each is to achieve the specified objectives.
Environment, policy, and legislation
More coordination between soil and water conservation and farmland preservation programs should address natural resource concerns, public policy issues, and legislative actions. These concerns, issues …
Footnotes
James E. Holloway is an assistant professor of business law and Donald C. Guy is an associate professor of real estate, Department of Finance, School of Business, East Carolina Univeristy, Greenville, North Carolina 27858. This is a condensed version of an expanded treatment of this issue that appeared in Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law 5(2):379–445.
- Copyright 1990 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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