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In addition, over the last decade, farmland prices have doubled nationwide and risen far higher in areas with pressure due to realestate development or commodity prices. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black. This round of awards is the first-time funds have been distributed through the LCM program.
Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. The first is farmland loss from haphazard realestate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification. DY: How do you cultivate your connection to the land you live on now, in urban Memphis?
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