Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell hopes an uptick in concern among legislators over foreign corporate farmland ownership may lead to guidelines for foreign investment.
Farm Action’s research shows that in the past 17 years alone, foreign farmland holdings have doubled in the U.S. and the trend shows no signs of slowing.
Instead of pouring funding into high-tech projects that don’t demonstrably reduce carbon or improve environmental conditions (but do give corporations good talking points for their ads), we should be supporting grassroots and farmer-led conservation and regeneration initiatives.
