Abstract
In the last decade one quarter of US population growth has occurred in California, generating problems associated with service provision, air and water quality and the depletion of agricultural land resources. Evidence for the conversion of agricultural land to urban use is presented together with the implications for the nation’s leading farm state. The California Land Conservation Act (1965) has been in place for 25 years as the state’s major programme of protection for 15 million acres of agricultural land. The Act can be regarded to have reached maturity and this is an appropriate time to assess its effectiveness. With forces of the land market increasing in response to population growth the Act has been reasonably successful in protecting the economic viability of Californian agriculture, but its future success will lie in supplementing its provision of preferential tax assessment with other land use planning measures. Only through such a comprehensive framework will agricultural land conservation withstand the cumulative drive of the Californian ‘growth machine’.
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