No revolution possible without available, affordable farmland

This land is your land: American Farmland Trust reps are digging the new documentaries "Food Inc" and "Fresh," but say they "fall short in addressing the key issues of farmland capacity and local food infrastructure needed to support new kinds of food systems." Its press release on the topic offers up some eye-opening data, citing Census of Agriculture recent figures that "most of the food we eat is grown on farmland in America’s most metropolitan counties: 91 percent of fruit and nuts, 78 percent of vegetables, 67 percent of dairy and 54 percent of poultry and eggs – and this is the farmland most threatened by development and conversion to non-farm uses." Release also links to AFT's very interesting study on whether the city of San Francisco, located in one of the nation's most productive food-growing regions, can feed itself from within 100 miles.

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