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2014 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Preserving Farmland to Ensure Food Security

Student(s):

Marshall Smith

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Dennis Canty

Partner(s):

  • American Farmland Trust

Faculty advisor(s):

Miles Logsdon, Senior lecturer and Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab, University of Washington

My project helped to address the nation wide loss of farmland by identifying areas that are suitable for preservation efforts so that organizations such as American Farmland Trust, who I interned with, can advance their policy goals. To accomplish this I used computerized spatial analysis to produce a series of maps that describe the state of farmland and depict areas suitable for preservation efforts.