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Preventing the Extinction of Small Farms
Zoning Practice — December 2024by: Sabrina Torres December 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores zoning techniques that can help prevent the extinction of small farms. By examining successful case studies and innovative policies, it highlights how strategic zoning can foster communities where small farms in rural and peri-urban contexts thrive and contribute to local food security and agricultural heritage. -
Introducing the New Tourism Economy
How communities that rely on tourism are courting new industries, highlighting cultural assets, and better supporting the people who live and work there year-round.by: Michelle McCue May 18, 2022How communities that rely on tourism are courting new industries, highlighting cultural assets, and better supporting the people who live and work there year-round. -
Defining Agritourism: A Comparative Study of Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Missouri and North Carolina
Tourism Management 37 (2013): 39e47, 2013by: Claudia Gil Arroyo, Carla Barbieri, Samantha RichThis article seeks to identify preferred definitional elements and types of agritourism activities. -
Characteristics of New Jersey Agritourism Farms
Journal of Food Distribution Research 45(2): 161–73, 2014by: Brian Schilling, Kevin SullivanThis article examines the characteristics of New Jersey farms engaging in agritourism using 2007 Census of Agriculture data. -
The Demand for Agritourism in the United States
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 33(2): 254-69, 2008by: Carlos Carpio, Michael Wohlgenant, Tullaya BoonsaengThis article examines on-farm recreation, or agritourism, as a marketed amenity of farms, and estimates the market and nonmarket benefits of rural land to visitors. -
Perceived Impact of Agritourism on Farm Economic Standing, Sales and Profits
Tourism Travel and Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally, 34, 2010by: Carla Barbieri, Christine TewThis article examines the economic gains of agritourism development on Missouri farms. -
Direct Farm Marketing as a Rural Development Tool
Rural Development Perspectives, vol. 12, no. 2, 2001by: Fred GaleThis article explores the prospects of direct farm marketing for bolstering farm income and promoting rural development. -
Preventing the Extinction of Small Farms
Zoning Practice — December 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores zoning techniques that can help prevent the extinction of small farms. By examining successful case studies and innovative policies, it highlights how strategic zoning can foster communities where small farms in rural and peri-urban contexts thrive and contribute to local food security and agricultural heritage. -
Reinventing the Chinese Countryside
What American planners can learn from Old Wuyan Village.June 01, 2017Many rural communities in China have declined dramatically, but Wuyan Village is successfully transitioning to meet the needs of a changing Chinese way of life. -
Agritourism Zoning Down on the Farm
Zoning Practice — March 2004by: Rebecca Retzlaff, AICPThis issue of Zoning Practice examines how planners can balance the need to preserve rural character and farming practices while allowing for agritourism enterprises in agricultural districts.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00
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