Abstract
One of the major trends in land-use planning in the US has been, and continues to be, agricultural land conservation. Increasingly, local governments have become important actors in controlling land alienation. The adoption of local policies to conserve agricultural land occurs unevenly across geographic space. An analysis of six policies and strategies available to all California counties found sharp differences in adoption rates. The results of correlation and multiple regression analyses support the hypothesis that these policies are associated with agriculturally oriented areas, with liberal political traditions. Little support was found for an alternative model suggesting that farmland policies are products of high-status, affluent suburban jurisdictions.
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