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Farmland Protection Program

The Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP) protects farm and ranch lands from development by providing matching funds to state, local governments, and non-profit organizations to purchase conservation easements. Funds can also be used to purchase easements to protect historical resources.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • Overall, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers FRPP adequately. The program prioritizes applications at the state level and selects the best projects for protecting important agricultural lands from development.
  • The program has developed improved long-term and annual performance measures that should better assess how well the program is delivering results. For example, one new measure tracks the percent of farms with FRPP easements that remain in agriculture in the long term. This will assess how well the program is assisting local communities with maintaining an active agricultural economy.
  • The agency has not conducted independent and in-depth reviews of FRPP to assess its efficacy, particularly as compared with other agricultural land easement programs.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Performing more in-depth and independent evaluations to assess the efficacy of the program.
  • Collecting and assessing data to track progress in improving program performance.

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