Protection is Not Enough

PROTECTION IS NOT ENOUGH: Policy Precedents to increase the agricultural use of British columBia’s farmland A White Paper The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (ISFS) is an applied research and extension unit at Kwantlen Polytechnic University that investigates and supports sustainable agriculture and regional food systems as key elements of sustaina [...] Serious consideration should be given to eliminating the ability to exclude land from the ALR and to ensure that agricultural vitality of land within the ALR is maintained. [...] As Regional food systems, which strive to shorten such, the underutilization of BC’s farmland is at supply chains and increase food self-reliance, the forefront of any discussion of regional food can amplify the influence of a local community systems. [...] The Underutilization of British has had important influence on curtailing the Columbia’s Farmland loss of agricultural land to rampant urban sprawl, The Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) was there is a need for additional policy and action to established in British Columbia in 1973 to ensure that protected agricultural land is used for stop the rapid loss of the province’s limited its intended purpo [...] While the establishment of the ALR reduced the rate of The cost of farmland is often prohibitive to farmland loss from an estimated 4,000-6,000 those wanting to farm.