New Land & Water Program Series

We are happy to announce our next rural research program series: Land & Water: Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods.

Land and water are essential rural resources, but their ownership, control, and value are all increasingly disconnected from rural livelihoods. Rural lands and rural waters are being reimagined as assets to be managed, marketed, and financialized—often on balance sheets in distant boardrooms. These changing ownership trends also intersect with what has been described as a slow-moving ecological catastrophe and a looming social and economic crisis. Today’s rural realities were not inevitable; neither are tomorrow’s. As we gather in 2023 for this Land & Water research series, we ask,

Who Really Owns Rural America?

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We are again grateful to Carnegie Corportation of New York and the University of Nebraska College of Law for program support. The statements made and views expressed, of course, are solely the responsibility of the authors and presenters.