A summary of the California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force's recommendations for addressing systemic barriers to land ownership and access for priority producers and Tribal land stewards.
Land Access Reports & Resources: A Curated Reading List
This is a curated reading list on agricultural land access and land tenure, gathered as a resource for the Community of Practice. It rounds up reports, articles, and tools covering land access barriers facing limited-resource farmers, strategies for building agricultural resilience, and philanthropic approaches to land return.
Highlights include a 2023 assessment of land access and tenure conditions for limited-resource farmers in Sonoma County, Ventura County’s Resilient Agricultural Lands Initiative strategic plan, essays on land justice and the politics of the alternative food movement, the “Land Justice” anthology on re-imagining land, food, and the commons, and practical tools like the USDA’s rural development eligibility map and California FarmLink’s land access services.