Farmland matching programs unite farmers looking for stable, long-term access to land, and landowners who have farmland sitting idle, or who wish to donate their land to leave a legacy for future farmers.
# Take action
* In the US, connect with one of these five groups working to help new farmers access land 
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* Find an existing land access and farmland matching program. In the US, check out Agrarian Trust's Resources List , the National Young Farmers Coalition's Land Access resources, and the Find Farmland and Farm Link tools from American Farmland Trust. In Canada, see the Young Agrarians' Finding Farmland & Land Access Tools . In the UK, support the Landworkers' Alliance New Entrants campaign, and in Europe, connect with Access to Land’s Member Organizations and read its handbook, Europe's New Farmers: Innovative Ways to Enter Farming and Access Land .
* Elsewhere, contact a local land access organization, land-matching program, La Via Campesina chapter, or your local government to find programs near you.
* To find farmland owned by a community land trust, see Finding Farmland: A Farmer’s Guide to Working with Land Trusts , by the National Young Farmers Coalition (US).
* Set up a new land access program In Europe with Access to Land's handbook A guide for setting up a land initiative and developing a land strategy .
* Develop a farmer-landowner partnership with guidance from Fresh Start Land Enterprise's Land Partnerships Handbook .
* Consider donating land to a land access organization or community land trust. In the UK, donate land to the Ecological Land Cooperative which will protect it "for ecological agriculture in perpetuity." In the US, if you own farmland, consider gifting it to the Agrarian Commons program of Agrarian Trust, or connect with the American Farmland Trust's national Farm Legacy initiative, which "works to ensure that land remains in farming as it transitions to the next generation, while improving access to land for new farmers."
* Work with your local government and nonprofits 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
* The Young Agrarians land-matching program in British Columbia , Canada, has made 109 matches so far, representing almost 6,000 acres of land.
* Terre de Liens in France is "a civic organisation which promotes land preservation and facilitates access to farmland for organic and peasant farmers in France" and has so far connected 320 farmers with land.
* Agrarian Trust in the US has stewarded numerous successful land transfers for aspiring farmers through its Agrarian Commons program, including in Maine , West Virginia , and New Hampshire .
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* The American Farmland Trust's Farm Legacy Stories of Success document numerous cases of retiring farmers transferring their farms to the trust to keep it in farming and save it from development.