Land access for next generation farmers
Agrarian Trust’s mission is to support land access for the next generation of farmers. The Context In the next two decades, it is predicted that 400 million acres of […]
A History of Property
by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts from Creative Time Reports Recently in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, two women aged 30 and 23 knocked on an apartment door to gain entry and then demanded at […]
Is the Farmland Surge just a Bubble Waiting to Burst?
By Danielle Kurtzleben from U.S. News and World Report The auctions are unintentionally silent today at the Pine Lake Country Club. Plenty of farmers showed up on this drizzly fall […]
The Decline of the Small Family Farm
By Roberto A. Ferdman from The Washington Post “Today’s farms are fewer and bigger.” That’s how the United States Department of Agriculture put it in the agency’s new Agriculture and Food Statistics […]
What do you mean when you say . . .
Leasehold Estate: A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by […]
Not Exactly Right, Wall Street
Published by The Cornucopia Institute in response to the Wall Street Journal Article slamming the organic movement. The Wall Street Journal opinion piece “Organic Farming Is Not Sustainable” published May […]
Iowa Farmer Doubts National Geographic’s “Five Steps”
This article, entitled National Geographic’s ‘Five Steps’ Won’t Feed The World: An Iowa Farmer’s View was written by George Naylor and published by the Huffington Post. The brief article, “A […]
Images of Progress – 2014 Our Land Symposium
In April of 2014, the Our Land Symposium brought together farmers, thinkers, land and legal experts and those who do it all or anything in between. See some images from […]
Experience Speaks: Alternatives to Farm Ownership
Alternatives to Ownership: Land Trusts as Land Reform by Robert Swann In those countries where traditional land reform (redistribution of land to private owners as initiated by the central state […]
Agrarian Trust and Allies in the News
By Michael Levitin from NationofChange.org There’s a new currency here called Bay Bucks that’s helping businesses trade in services and get off the dollar. There’s a new agriculture-tech startup called CropMobster helping redistribute excess […]