Terre-en-vue (TeV) is a citizen driven cooperative company that facilitates access to land by buying land and leasing it on a long term basis to farmers who conduct agroecological projects. The capital of TeV is entirely based on citizen investment.… Read More »Terre-en-vue
De Landgenoten is a citizen cooperative company that gathers citizen saving money in order to buy land for organic farmers. It was founded by 17 organisations in April 2014 and currently supports seven projects. It has emerged in close relation… Read More »De Landgenoten
De Landgenoten recently had the pleasure of receiving the monthly Open Space Cup for its report on the obstacles in the Flemish farmland market. This monthly reward is given by the VRP, which is the Flemish Association for Space &… Read More »Award winning cooperative De Landgenoten
A peasant to peasant agroecology project! In the small-scale farmers’ world, P2P can stand for more than peer-to-peer and evoke a traditional (not yet lost!) type of agriculture that can teach us much for the future, P2P can also start… Read More »P2P Agroecology in Europe
2014 FIAN Belgium (FoodFirst Information and Action Network) recently published a study (in French) to describe and analyse the difficulties of access to land currently facing farmers in Belgium. To conduct this study, the Human Rights organisation devoted to the defense… Read More »For better access to land in Belgium and in Europe
“Maintaining two large, diverse biodynamic farms, through community connections” Two Biodynamic Community Farms located in East Sussex, UK, wholly owned by a cooperative (an Industrial and Provident Society) with approximately 600 shareholders, most of them local to the farm. The… Read More »Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farms, UK