Land Justice & Land Trusts: A Toolkit

Aspetuck Land Trust participated with Yale's Center for Environmental Justice and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment to create this toolkit which is intended to provide tools to the land trust community to preserve more land, specifically working lands that will contribute to stronger regional food production and distribution systems. 

Farms need farmers, and the more creative tools land trusts have to conserve land for farmers the better. This toolkit also provides information and resources about how this work relates to land justice outcomes and features examples that illustrate how these tools are being applied across the United States. 

In this toolkit, land justice is defined as efforts that enable land access, affordable ownership, and decision-making by individuals and communities who have traditionally been excluded from owning and stewarding land. Land justice particularly focuses on benefiting those who have been systemically excluded from ownership of and access to land and resources.