Friday, March 15, 2019

Loss of Farmland to Urbanisation

Question:
A grad student would like to know if there has been any update to the research conducted by Nancy Hofmann, Giuseppe Filoso and Mike Schofield and published in The loss of dependable agricultural land in Canada ( Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin Catalogue no. 21-006-XIE Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2005)) https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/21-006-x/21-006-x2005001-eng.pdf

I did some research but was not able to find any update to this research or any equivalent measurement of farmland loss to urban areas.

Have I missed something?

Answer:
Subject matter returned the following comments:

“I don’t believe there has been a follow-up article or other research by the agency to follow that one up.”

Follow-up Answer:
I’ve been given the following regarding this request:

The latest release on this topic was:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/16-201-x/16-201-x2016000-eng.htm