The Community Land Trust as an Alternative Land Tenure System
Public Deposited- Creator
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Dyer, Donna
- Other Affiliation: Economic Development Planner, Triangle J Council of Governments, Durham, NC
- Abstract
- Growing citizen concern over the conversion of farm land to more intensive uses, and about the disappearance of family farms, has captured the attention of numerous federal officials. Eleven federal agencies are currently pursuing a national agricultural lands study, constituting a review and synthesis of all existing studies of the changes in prime agricultural land in this country. Secretary of Agriculture Robert Bergland has called for a national dialogue on the structure of American agriculture. In ten public meetings, in 1979, he listened to testimony of citizens regarding land ownership, control, and tenancy; barriers to entering and leaving farming; size of farms; the role of technology ; returns to farmers; costs to consumers, and many other critical issues concerning the nature of rural life in the United States. A report and recommendations are forthcoming. These small steps reveal concern at a level that may slow the unchecked concentration of land ownership depicted below, or at least may support and encourage alternative tenure systems such as the community land trust.
- Date of publication
- 1979
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- Resource type
- Article
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- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 5
- Journal issue
- 2
- Page start
- 31
- Page end
- 37
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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