Does the number of productive farmland acres or farms affect farmland loss?

Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 119-146

  Lynch, Lori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781936331659     Document Type: Chapter

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