Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
Overview of Belongings 1
Testing for Principles in Farmland Solutions 4
Denaturalizing Private Property 8
Culture and Land Through Story 11
Land Without Borders 13
Other Ways of Being with Land 16
Complex Relations to Land in Agriculture 17
The Eruption of Alternatives 19
Alternative and Dominant Theories of Practice 20
2 Land For Profit, Land For Food 21
Where Has all the Farmland Gone? 24
Conversion 26
Agricultural Community: Farms Break Their Boundary Lines 28
Competition for Land: Farmers 32
Moving Away from Mid-Size Farms 35
Double Binds and the Farm Crisis 38
Succession: Who's Next? 40
Agriculture in Transition 45
A World Without Farms? 52
3 Restoring Knowledge Through History 55
Land History: Beyond Canada 64
Dying for Land 67
Land Reform 74
Resistance Starts at Home 80
Systems of Alternatives 81
Land Ho! 82
Land Grabs Through Local History 88
Revealing Power 89
4 The Principles of Private Property: Simple Principles, Complex Problems 92
Profit Defines Best Use 93
Simplicity in Agricultural Land Use 94
The Growth Principle 100
The Waste Principle 101
A House to Call Home 102
Owning Land and Nature 115
Land to the Tiller of Soil, Land to the Teller of Tales 116
A Community of Practice 129
Across the Hedgerows 132
Missing Properties 135
5 Weighing the Alternatives 137
Levelling the Playing Field: Tax Solutions 140
The Apparatus of Mapping: Zoning 141
Capital Solutions 145
Held in Trust for Farming 146
Values in Agriculture 148
Valuing Production 150
One Crop, One Disaster 151
Valuing the Soil 151
Valuing Farmland 152
The Benefits of Agriculture 154
Valuing Benefits for All 157
Making Change 159
Land, Social Purpose and the Public Purse 159
Public Interest in Land and Alternatives to the Private Property Model 160
Prevaricating Power 171
6 Landing For Change 180
Agroecological Thought 181
Notes 186
References 189
