Join us as we share our new action plan for justice-centered Regenerative Agroecological Stewardship, Community Agriculture, Urban Farming, Land Retention, and Tribal Stewardship.
LEGACY LANDS WORKGROUP
Who writes the next 250 years of this land?
In the 250th year since the Declaration of Independence, about 60 percent of land in the United States still sits in private hands: farms, ranches, forests, family plots.
Indigenous nations have lost 98.9 percent of their historical land base since colonization began. Black farmers have lost land valued at $326 billion, from 16 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 5 million today. Latino farmworkers make up 78 percent of the people who labor on American farms and 3 percent of the people who own them.
And still, developers force partition sales that carve heirs' farms into pieces for the highest bidder. The federal government has cut nearly a quarter of NRCS, the field staff who help small farmers, urban growers, and farmers of color conserve their land, leaving 141 counties without a single conservation employee.
So who keeps that land, and who is pushed off it, will decide what the next 250 years look like.
Our answer remains: ALL OF US.
At Climate Week, our Legacy Lands Workgroup will release our action plan, in the words of the farmers, ranchers, tribal leaders, land trust practitioners, and organizers who live this work.
Who you'll be in the room with
Kenya Crumel, National Black Food and Justice Alliance and Legacy Lands Co-Lead. Adrian Angulo, Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project and our Legacy Lands Backbone Liaison. A delegation from the Piscataway Indian Nation and The Billy Redwing Tayac Indigenous Conservation Foundation. Jasmin Graham, Minorities in Shark Sciences and Co-Lead of our Priorities, Projects and Campaigns Committee.
