American Farmland Trust is an organization in the United States that works to protect and conserve farmland. AFT is staffed by farmers, policy experts, researchers and scientists, and governed by a board of directors. Headquarters are in Washington, D.C., with satellite offices in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Washington state. AFT also runs the Farmland Information Center in Northampton, Massachusetts and the Center for Agriculture in the Environment in Dekalb, Illinois. Farmers and ranchers founded AFT in 1980, partly in response to the 1979 report of the National Agricultural Lands Study, titled Where Have the Farm Lands Gone?
Projects
In August 2020, The Farming is Our Future Initiative founded by American Farmland Trust. The goal involves reducing agricultural depletion rate by 75% while also lowering annual carbon emissions by 650 million metric tons and rising the number of starting farmers to the highest amount in 50 years.[1]
References
- ^ "American Farmland Trust launches Farming is Our Future initiative". agdaily. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.