A Digital Map Leads to Reparations for Black and Indigenous Farmers
The map’s creators say they envision an equitable distribution of land and resources in the country.
Re-imagining Politics Through the Lens of the Commons
Why are the more wholesome alternative visions so scarce and scarcely believable?
Let’s Skip the War Part—and Go Right to Reparations
Because ecological destruction affects both friend and foe, the use of bombs, drones and missiles is akin to shooting oneself in the foot…and the lungs and the spirit. War undermines that which most of the world’s people aspire to: physical and financial security; satisfying work and social ties; clean air, food and water. Perhaps we can skip the violence and tragedy and blowback and move directly to restitution: reparations for damage sustained.
How Indigenous Land-use Practices Inform the Current Sharing Economy
How Indigenous Land-Use Practices Inform the Current Sharing Economy by Aaron Fernando The concept of ownership is a social contract that allows certain individuals and groups to have rights to certain resources or items while excluding others from that access. Under the mainstream conception of private property, both the ownership of land and anything built […]
Violence in Amazon Centered around Land
In a remote area in Brazil, a dispute over who, if anyone owns the land has lead to killings. On the 71.3 million hectares of public land in the country, land users say “the only document is our presence here.” The worst land-related slaughter Brazil has seen in 21 years reflects a chronic ambiguity around […]
Building Democratic Ownership in the US South
Save the date! From the Federation of Southern Cooperatives: On October 4-6, 2013 the CoopEcon 2013 conference will be held at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund’s Rural Training & Research Center in Epes, Alabama. This is not a conference for developers, although we are sure some will come. “This is mainly meant to […]
Free Land: Farming Under Pressure
This video from the BBC shows “how farms confiscated from Sicily’s mafia are providing food and wine, helping to fight crime and providing a future for a new generation on the island.” The project, a not for profit farming operation called “Libera Terra” (which translates as “Free Land”), was made possible by an Italian member of […]
Take Action to Protect Small Farming
Americans all around the country from every corner of our society are standing up and taking direct action to protect the programs and policies that allow them to thrive. Now is the time for all groups to make their voice heard and small, sustainable, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers are no different. If […]
Center for a Livable Future provides Policy and Community Solutions for Food System Health
The Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins University released a series of policy recommendations for the new administration to bring the health of food systems and communities to the forefront of policy discussion. Agrarian Trust’s work all ultimately connects communities with the food being grown by their people from their soil, and according […]
Black Farmers are Taking Back their Place in America
The first week of black history month comes to a close. Though the pandering of the new admisitration’s approach to this commemorative month is directly at odds with the voices of the BLM protesters throughout the country and the voices of politicians continue to drown out the lived experiences of black and brown citizens in […]