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Land, Agriculture and the Long View

Robert G. Healy is senior associate at The Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C. Trained as an economist, he has specialized in land economics and land use policy. Among his books are Land Use and the States (1979); The Market for Rural Land (1981) and Competition for Land in the American South (1985). Holder of a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, he served on the research staff of The Urban Institute and of Resources for the Future and has taught at Harvard, U.C.L.A. and Duke University. Among his current research interests are the environmental implications of changes in international trade in agricultural commodities.