Tag: <span>Farmland Protection Program</span>

What’s in a Number? Setting AFT NY’s 100,000 Acre Farmland Protection Goal

By Sanaz Arjomand, M.S. in Environmental Policy 2016 During my internship with the New York field office of American Farmland Trust (AFT), a national organization whose mission is to protect farmland, promote sound farming practices, and keep farmers on the land, my main responsibility was to work on a report …

I ♥︎ NY Farmland: Going Beyond the Tagline as a Graduate Policy Intern

By Sanaz Arjomand, M.S. in Environmental Policy 2016 If you’ve been to a farmer’s market, you’ve seen the iconic green “No Farms, No Food” bumper stickers of the American Farmland Trust (AFT), an organization whose mission is to protect farmland, promote sound farming practices, and keep farmers on the land. …