Linking sustainable practices throughout Europe
Terre de Liens
Rural topic(s): Access to land, Civic engagement, local governance and dialogue, Local food Chains
City: Crest
Country: France
Web site: http://www.terredeliens.org
The association Terre de Liens was founded in 2003 to support access to land for farmers involved in organic and biodynamic farming. In 2006, it created a solidary investment company “La Foncière Terre de Liens” which collect subscribers’ money to buy agricultural land and rent it to farmers who have a project of family and/or sustainable farming. Since 2009, with the creation of a Foundation which can receive donations of farms and funds. The land bought and managed by Terre de Liens is collectively owned in a long-term perspective; it is taken away from the land market speculation and placed at the service of environmental.
protection and social use.
Scale of intervention : Regional, National, Local
Keywords: land access, land policy, farm succession, agroecology, landgrabbing, organic farming, collective farmland ownership, peasant farming
Places: France
Actors: association, community land trust (CLT)
Methods: renting of land, resources mobilization, intermediation and facilitation, networking, raising awareness, advocacy
Success stories:
Documents:
- Conference Report: Community Connected Farms for Tomorrow: New Ways of Land Access for Communities and Farmers
- Local authorities supporting access to land for farmers: stories from Europe
- Your land, My land, Our land : grassroots strategies to preserve farmland and access to land for peasant farming and agroecology