{"id":14675,"date":"2018-06-05T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2018-06-05T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T01:13:10","slug":"how-much-farmland-are-we-losing-to-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/06\/how-much-farmland-are-we-losing-to-development\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Farmland Are We Losing to Development?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year a little more farmland is converted to development. In some areas, the conversion is a bit more rapid. This map from <em>Modern Farmer<\/em> shows how much land has been converted from farmland to urban uses between 1992 and 2012. Note how much of the Southeast is being converted, especially in areas surrounding big cities like Atlanta. Changing land use also changes the local climate, adding more heat to the system through increased pavement and reduction in trees.\u00a0 The water cycle also changes because water runs off instead of infiltrating into the soil. Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2018\/05\/10-numbers-that-show-how-much-farmland-were-losing-to-development\/\">https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2018\/05\/10-numbers-that-show-how-much-farmland-were-losing-to-development\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14676\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/AmericanFarmLandTrustConversionofFarmland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14676\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/AmericanFarmLandTrustConversionofFarmland-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/AmericanFarmLandTrustConversionofFarmland-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/AmericanFarmLandTrustConversionofFarmland-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/AmericanFarmLandTrustConversionofFarmland.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/06\/AmericanFarmLandTrustConversionofFarmland-218x138.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image, courtesy of American Farmland Trust, shows the conversion of agricultural land to urban and low-density residential development between 1992 and 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year a little more farmland is converted to development. In some areas, the conversion is a bit more rapid. This map from Modern Farmer shows how much land has been converted from farmland to urban uses between 1992 and 2012. Note how much of the Southeast is being converted, especially in areas surrounding big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14677,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions\/14677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}