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=Discussion=

On The Commons:

"On the Commons is exploring
the question of what could
commons-based investment
in farmland and local food
enterprise look like. Weaving
direct, mutually supportive
relationships among farmers,
households, and businesses by
transforming our thinking about
security, money, investing and
our connection to land and food
is our focus during this project.


We are partnering with co-ops,
community banks, investors,
organizations and regular commoners
to imagine and pilot
new (as well as build on values-aligned
existing) investment
mechanisms to deepen our
relationship and connection to
local food sources and increase
the flow of currency and connections
for our food system.

We are also thinking about
farmland and the larger question
of what is security – and
how can we have security when
land ownership is concentrating
into the hands of a few? On the
Commons convened a national
gathering of farmers, investors
and sustainable agriculture and
land trust leaders for a conversation
fostering new ideas, tools,
strategies and partnerships to
convert more land to ecological
forms of production, increase
farmer access to the land, and
transform our thinking about
the nature of land ownership.

We are now looking at how to
create new methods for community
members to financially
invest in a local and sustainable
food economy as an alternative
to a traditional IRA. Such a
model could not only provide
food security to a growing body
of people but also stop the
corporate land grab underway
across the country."
(http://onthecommons.org/sites/default/files/OTC_Update.pdf)


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