NESAWG It Takes a Region Kathy Ruhf November 12-13, 2015 The land - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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NESAWG It Takes a Region Kathy Ruhf November 12-13, 2015 The land access challenge Top challenge identified by new and young farmers in 2 national surveys (AFBF & NYFC) 70% of U.S. farmland will change hands in the next two decades

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NESAWG It Takes a Region

Kathy Ruhf November 12-13, 2015

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The land access challenge

  • Top challenge identified by new and young farmers

in 2 national surveys (AFBF & NYFC)

  • 70% of U.S. farmland will change hands in the next

two decades

  • Land tenure has always been an issue; expressed

differently in history and by region.

  • Farmland ownership increasingly concentrated, and

held by older farmers and landowners.

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Challenges, continued

  • Cost and competition.
  • Discrimination and prejudice (various populations)
  • Insecure tenure: undermines environmental

stewardship, investment, viability, and community- building.

  • Farming opportunity and meaningful legacy.
  • Traditional methods of acquiring land are no longer

sufficient

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Connecting the dots…

Food security requires farmer security. Farmer security requires land security. “Land is the basic building block of sustainable, regional food systems.”

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The land access challenge:

A systems change perspective

  • Policy

– No overarching federal policy on farmland access and tenure – Inadequate attention and incentives at all policy levels

  • Economics

– NBFs more likely to succeed without land debt, while government programs encourages it – Farmland: means of production and an appreciating asset

  • Culture

– property ownership; “real farmers” own their land – Land has strong emotional component: where farmers live

  • Service

– Inadequate programs and services to meet the challenges

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LFG’s response

  • Direct assistance: seekers, farmers, owners
  • Educational programs and materials
  • Professional network development
  • Policy
  • Research
  • Innovation
  • Partnerships and collaboration
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Land must be…

  • Available
  • Affordable
  • Appropriate
  • Secure
  • Equitable
  • Findable
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Who plays a role?

  • Established farmers
  • Non-farming landowners (private, institutional, public)
  • Service providers (agency, NGO, private)
  • Land trusts and other conservation orgs
  • Communities (officials, civic leaders, neighbors, consumers)
  • Policy makers
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Responses

  • Non-traditional tenure models

– Paths to ownership – Shared ownership – Non-ownership

  • Improved assistance
  • Better public policies
  • Community engage-

ment

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Thank you!

www.landforgood.org kathy@landforgood.org info@landforgood.org