Commons-Based Land Stewardship

Example

Case study on

* Article: Commons-Based Land Stewardship in Practice: Reflections from the Kultur Land Cooperative - Germany. Thomas Kliemt.

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"Since 2013 the Kulturland Cooperative (Kulturland-Genossenschaft) has purchased farmland through citizen investment and leased it to small-scale organic farmers under long-term stewardship contracts. It now holds 700 ha in collective ownership, supported by 1,600 members. Drawing on eight years of involvement—including four as Commercial Director—this practitioner report reflects on the cooperative’s innovations and tensions."

More information

Jung-Irrgang, J. (2022). Commoning Land for a Regenerative Agriculture. Master’s thesis, University of Copenhagen.

Kliemt, T. (2018). The Commons 2.0 – A Global Blockchain Land-Trust Framework. White paper.

Kumnig, S., & Rosol, M. (2021). Commoning land access: Collective purchase and squatting in Germany and Austria. In Capitalism and the Commons (pp. 35-49). Routledge.

Theesfeld, I., & Curtiss, J. (2023). New types of land ownership to sustain life on land. In Handbook on Land Economics (pp. 1-22). Palgrave