Organization
American Farmland Trust
The national farmland-protection nonprofit, founded 1980 — instrumental in the conservation-easement movement that has protected millions of acres of US farmland from development. Mission: 'save the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.' One of the load-bearing institutions of the American agricultural-land base.
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What they do
American Farmland Trust is the national farmland-conservation nonprofit. The organization built the conservation-easement movement for farmland — the legal instrument that has protected millions of acres of working US agricultural land from being paved into housing or warehouses. Beyond easements: agricultural-viability policy work at the federal and state levels, programs to keep farmers on the land (especially the next generation), and the well-known “No Farms No Food” public-awareness campaign.
Why it’s listed
Every substrate-builder on [[directory|the directory]] needs land to build on. [[directory|The directory]]‘s other entries are the operators; American Farmland Trust is the institution defending the possibility of operating — the upstream condition without which the rest of the listing dissolves. A national land-protection institution is exactly the kind of knowledge-care infrastructure the directory should make visible alongside the farms.
See also
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- Instance of: [[land-trust]]
- Shares approach with: [[livestock-conservancy]] · [[rodale-institute]]
- Member of: [[organization]]
Sources
A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]]. Filed under [[chesapeake-tidewater]] in [[directory|the directory]].
What links here, and how
Inbound connections from across the wiki, grouped by lens and by relationship. These appear automatically — every entity page declares what it links to, and that data populates here on the targets.
Practical
shares approach with
- Arlington Heights Farmers Market recognized as Illinois's best farmers market by the American Farmland Trust — a directory of the same alignment
- Conservation Easement AFT built the conservation-easement movement for farmland specifically
- Farm Aid two national institutions defending the family-farm base from different angles — AFT on land protection, Farm Aid on family-farm advocacy and crisis support
- Land Trust Alliance AFT is one of the LTA's member land trusts; LTA is the federation, AFT is one of its most-visible members
- Land Trust built the land-trust model for farmland specifically — 'No Farms No Food'
- Land's Sake kindred farmland-preservation work; AFT at national policy scale, Land's Sake at a single-town working-farm scale
- Sogorea Te' Land Trust two land-trust models with very different theories of land — AFT preserves working farmland under conservation easement; Sogorea Te' returns land to Indigenous nations
- Sudbury Valley Trustees kindred conservation-easement institutions at different geographic scales
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