AFSA’s Agrarian Trust project
Vision
Farmland held in commons, providing First Peoples and agroecology-oriented farmers secure tenure and equitable access to farmland, and promoting fair, just and sovereign local and regional agri-food systems.
Mission
- Transition farmland from private ownership to land held in an agrarian trust
- Provide secure tenure and equitable access for agroecology-oriented farmers, prioritising First Peoples farmers
- Reduce disadvantage by enabling farmers of modest means to gain both secure equitable tenure to farmland and affordable housing on farmland.
- Promote relations with land that enact mutual obligations of care, and support just relations between settlers and First Peoples
- Preserve agricultural land in perpetuity for farming (e.g. through farm covenants)
- Promote an agroecological transformation
- Remove barriers to embedding the intrinsic infrastructure of agroecology within local communities
- Respect knowledge as commons and facilitate its rhizomatic movement
