Gardens 4 Humanity

One of the greatest barriers to just agriculture is equitable access to land. Through a history of land grabs and forced migration, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color have been separated from their land, worsening systemic inequities. Over the past 100 years, Black-owned farmland in the U.S. has declined by roughly 98 percent.

Tune in on September 30th at 1pm PT/ 4pm ET for Savi Horne, Executive Director of Land Loss Prevention Project, and Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, will talk about the impacts of land loss on rural and urban communities and what we can do to break down these barriers.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M5LXk_L2Qf2Xf6uYTSHCpg

'Black farms in the U.S. plummeted from 925,000 in 1910 to fewer than 36,000 in the most recent USDA census...

Lenders — chief among them, the USDA — often refused to give them money, and often rushed to foreclose. Suppliers and customers undercut them. Laws of inheritance led to the breakup of homesteads."

Black US farmers awaiting billions in promised debt relief BOYDTON, Va. (AP) -- There was a time when Black farms prospered. Just two generations out of slavery, by 1910 Black farmers had amassed more...