Latest posts
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The Commons: A Story of Reworking an Old Idea for Next-Generation Farmers
One of humanity’s oldest ideas about land is helping new farmers who can’t afford to buy in — so why is it being undercut by the USDA?
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America’s Great Farmland Handoff, in Charts
Who Will Farm the Land? America’s Great Farmland Handoff, in Charts
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VICTORY: We Sued the Trump Administration and Won
In March, Agrarian Trust joined a dozen other nonprofits and six cities to file a lawsuit to defend federal funding for critical public investments in our food system, renewable energy, and affordable housing.
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Featured in YES! Magazine: For a Cooler Climate, Focus on Food and Agriculture
Originally published by YES! Magazine The global food system is responsible for more emissions than previously thought, according to a new United Nations report. It may also hold a key to reversing climate change. Agriculture as usual is putting the climate at risk as “unprecedented rates” of land and freshwater resources are used to fuel
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ICYMI: Under Contract Featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
For the first time in a feature-length documentary, contract farmers speak out and experts reveal how the corporate production model pits farmer against farmer In the U.S. alone, 97% of the chicken produced is raised by family farmers under contract with large companies. Around the world and all across agriculture, contract farming is taking hold.
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Featured in Resilience: Earthseed Land Collective
Originally published by Agrarian Trust and Resilience Planting the Seeds The Earthseed Land Collective was formally established in 2012 by a group of black and brown farmers and social justice organizers. All in their 30s and early 40s at the time of its founding, the group currently includes seven founding members. Over the past decade,
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It’s e-Farmony: Suzanna Denison Pairs Landless Farmers with Landowners
My interview with Suzanna Denison on how farm linking works for Food Tank
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The Future of Farming is Open Source
Originally published in MAKE: Farmers are innovators, which is a nice way of saying that they really like to tinker with things. They were hacking complicated machines and developing new technologies long before server farms sprouted up and cloud computing reigned. Despite the fact that some farmers in the US began using satellites to help