Abstract Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have so far failed to sustainably address urban
sprawl and its ramifications. Meanwhile, the projected increase in the urban population in …

This article reviews the literature on characteristics, causes, and costs of alternative
development patterns. In doing so it debunks arguments by Gordon and Richardson in favor …

We investigate the effects of conflict on agriculture using the Boko Haram insurgency as a
case study. We identify the output, input, infrastructure and human capital effects as direct …

One of the great debates of our time concerns the predominant form of land use in America
today--the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development known as …

Despite assumptions that agriculture will automatically go into a mode of decline at the Rural
Urban Interface (RUI), official statistics suggest that agriculture as a whole remains a strong …

Urbanization leads to a continuous loss of agricultural land, both directly under the form of
land take, and indirectly through the use of agricultural land for non-productive rural …

We investigate the influence of future land development on current agricultural land values.
From a theoretical model of land markets, we derive a reduced-form expression for …

States during the past 25 years. The total area of cropland, pastureland and rangeland
decreased by 76 million acres in the lower 48 states from 1982 to 2003, while the total area …

This paper reviews the recent literature dealing with farmland protection (FP) policies in
developed countries from a planning perspective, with a specific focus on the Mediterranean …

Many small American farms struggle to remain economically viable due to a confluence of
global market dynamics, rising costs, and urbanization pressure. Agritourism is an …