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- Title
Expanding Urbanization and Selected Agricultural Elements: Case Study, Southwestern Ontario Area, 1941-1961.
- Authors
Russwurm, Lorne H.
- Abstract
The interaction between agriculture and urbanization is unquestioned. After all, urban dwellers obtain their food from the farmer and in turn provide services and goods for the farmer. One prominent agricultural economist has gone so far as to hypothesize, with supporting evidence, that inequality in farm income is not a result of original differences in soil or the quality of the population. Rather such income inequalities are attributable to the geographical position of agricultural areas in relation to major centers of urban-industrial development. Certainly, in the complex society of today, interactions between the agricultural system and the urban system are often subtle and many indirect interactions occur. The indirect interaction of expanding urbanization with four selected agricultural elements is investigated in the present paper. The four agricultural elements are, first, the percentage of farm land that is rented, second, the acres of improved land per farm, third, the percentage of improved farm land used for the production of vegetables, small fruits and nursery products, and fourth, the dollar value of land and buildings per acre of improved farm land.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; SOUTHWESTERN Ontario; CANADA; URBANIZATION; AGRICULTURE; AGRICULTURAL economics; FARM income; URBAN sociology; FARM management; RURAL industries; INDUSTRIALIZATION
- Publication
Land Economics, 1967, Vol 43, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.2307/3145570