American Farmland Trust, in partnership with Conservation Science Partners and the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, projected how development and climate change will affect agricultural land under several different future scenarios. We mapped three contrasting development scenarios from 2016 to 2040, representing broad policy pathways that the country might take.

Farms Under Threat 2040: Choosing an Abundant Future, and the accompanying web mapping tool, are designed to help Americans explore alternatives in development choices.

Farms Under Threat is American Farmland Trust’s multi-year initiative to document the status of and threats to agricultural land while offering policy solutions to protect that land. To view AFT’s Farms Under Threat raster data and create your own map with your selected layers and edits, use the American Farmland Trust Raster Atlas. The Atlas includes Farms Under Threat data layers from Farms Under Threat: State of the States, Farms Under Threat 2040, and Wildlife Connectivity Across U.S. Agricultural Lands.