Securing affordable farmland is critical if we are to rebuild our local food economies – and it is one of its biggest challenges around the world. As the US National Young Farmers Coalition writes, "Finding secure access to land is the number one barrier preventing a generation of growers from entering the field. Land is also at the root of racial equity, food sovereignty, economic prosperity, public health, and the climate crisis."
# Take action
* Browse the guides and resources in Agrarian Trust's Resources List 
(US), National Young Farmers Coalition's Land Link Directory (US), Young Agrarians' Finding Farmland & Land Access Tools (Canada), and Access to Land’s Member Organizations (Europe). These include land access guides, lists of farm linking and incubation programs, financing information, courses and lease templates.
* Elsewhere, contact a local land access organization, land-matching program, La Via Campesina chapter, or your local government to find programs local to you.
* Work with local governments to secure land for community food enterprises with Shared Assets' guide Access to Land: Working with Local Authorities (UK).
* Work with your local government and non-profits to provide farmers with leased land. This is the model employed by the nonprofit Intervale Center , which owns, leases, and manages 350 acres near the city of Burlington, Vermont in the US, and subleases land to ten or more independently owned farms.
# Get inspired
* Agrarian Trust in the US permanently protects affordable farmland through a variety of innovative commons-based approaches.
* California FarmLink in California, US partners with landowners to purchase farms or transition them to the next generation.
* Equity Trust in New England, US transfers land ownership to a nonprofit entity and leases land to farmers at below-market rates, while farmers own their own buildings and infrastructure.