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Bibliothèque Green lights in the Greenbelt? A qualitative analysis of farm investment decision-making in peri-urban Southern Ontario

Green lights in the Greenbelt? A qualitative analysis of farm investment decision-making in peri-urban Southern Ontario

Green lights in the Greenbelt? A qualitative analysis of farm investment decision-making in peri-urban Southern Ontario
Land Use Policy Volume 55

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Date of publication
Août 2016
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lupj:S0264837716302630
Pages
14

The survival of farms requires innovative adaptation and investment to take advantage of the characteristics of the peri-urban environment. In Ontario, Canada, the Provincial Government passed in 2005 the Greenbelt Act that delimits Ontario’s Greenbelt—an area of 1.8 million acres where land is protected from development around the metropolitan region of the Greater Golden Horseshoe. This paper presents research on farm-level analysis of farmers’ investment decision-making aiming at understanding the impact of Ontario’s Greenbelt on farm investment. We interviewed 21 peri-urban farmers from Southern Ontario and 3 Greenbelt experts. Three sources of data are used to understand farm investment decision-making: farmers’ mental maps, the interview transcriptions, and the information provided by a complementary questionnaire. The results demonstrate that Ontario’s Greenbelt, designed to make agriculture the primary land use in the designated area through farmland preservation, is not sufficient. Protecting a sustainable and efficient agricultural sector requires the presence of the other actors in the whole food chain in order to supply farmers and help them access markets for their products, as well as provide information and technical services.

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Akimowicz, Mikaël
Cummings, Harry
Landman, Karen

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