Alliance research helps communities find the balance between farmland preservation and economic growth

Helping to balance often-competing priorities in Canada’s rural communities is the goal for experts connected with the University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), including many researchers and graduates whose work reflects literal field experience.

Sharing research results on land use planning with practitioners is partly the focus for Dr. Sara Epp, who studies land use conflicts.

Exploring how information provided to farmers affects their decisions about farm practices and technologies is the focus of Dr. Tongzhe Li, a professor in OAC’s Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics and holder of the Arrell Chair in Behavioural and Experimental Economics.

Read more about their research, funded in part by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance: A Balancing Act: Farmland Preservation and Economic Growth in Rural Communities