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A U.S. federal law, the Swamp Land Act of 1850, [1] fully titled "An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits", essentially provided a mechanism for reverting title of federally-owned swampland to states which would agree to drain the land and turn it to productive, agricultural use. [2]
A converted wetland is one that has been drained, dredged, filled, leveled, or otherwise altered for the production of an agricultural commodity. [1] The definition is part of The Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Compliance provisions [2] (Swampbuster) introduced in the 1985 Farm Bill (also known as The Food Security Act of 1985).
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 2101) made this a 2-million-acre (8,100 km 2) national program (with an enrollment limit of 100,000 acres (400 km 2) per state), and made changes in eligibility requirements, such as increasing the maximum size of eligible wetlands from 5 acres (20,000 m 2) to 10 acres (40,000 m 2). [2]
“Think about it as forcing people to use rotary phones,” Bruce Sherrick, director of the TIAA Center for Farmland Research at the University of Illinois, said of conservation easements.
Individual pertained rights for agricultural use of land and maintenance of farm residencies while collective had the right to convert farmland into residential development. This conversion was to be done within a certain proximity to metropolitan cities that maintain existing farming that would fall threat to residential intrusion. [ 9 ]
Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres (65 hectares) of farmland in the U.S. state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned, drawing a sharp rebuke from the global ...
These include rising sea levels, increased flooding risk, changes to the makeup of the land (e.g. a habitable area becoming a wetland), coastal erosion, increased susceptibility to dangerous cyclones, droughts, water shortages, wildfires, and other factors, all of which can overlap with each other to enhance the risk of danger or inhabitability ...