Opinion: Who controls California farmland? The hard-to-find answer is disturbing
… With colleagues at the University of San Francisco, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, and I have combed through thousands of parcel records to answer a simple question: Who controls California’s farmland? … Today, ownership of the land that feeds us is increasingly hidden behind layers of shell companies and trusts, making it nearly impossible to know who controls these resources.
–Written by Meredith Song, a master’s student at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and a student fellow with the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, and Adam Calo, an assistant professor of environmental governance and politics at Radboud University in the Netherlands.Other agricultural water use news:
