Growing the capacity and momentum needed to elevate the cause of agricultural land retention and protection across America.

For much of its history, American Farmland Trust has provided broad support to the growing agricultural land protection community, whether through regional events and national conferences, cutting-edge research and communications insights, or technical expertise and policy innovation.

In 2020, American Farmland Trust launched the National Agricultural Land Network, or NALN, to further strengthen the collective capacity of public agencies, planning entities, and land trusts working to protect agricultural land.

The NALN is designed to grow the capacity and momentum needed to elevate the cause of agricultural land protection across America.

Gain professional networking and support as an organization/entity or individual directly engaged in retaining and protecting agricultural land. There is no cost for membership; however, some select services, programing, or events may require a fee.

If you are a farmer or an aspiring farmer and looking for information about farmland protection or accessing land, please visit AFT’s Farmland Information Center.

Farms Under Threat Webinar Series

The NALN hosted two webinar series exploring findings from American Farmland Trust’s Farms Under Threat reports.

The first series, “Farms Under Threat: State of the States” looked at spatial and policy scorecard findings for 38 states and talked through tools available through this report to help planners, land protection practitioners, policymakers, and advocates strengthen and expand agricultural land retention and protection efforts.

In the summer of 2022, AFT followed up with a second series focused on 35 states from AFT's report "Farms Under Threat: 2040". We looked at the spatial data and development scenarios and talked about how this data will be helpful to planners, land protection practitioners, policymakers, and advocates as they strengthen and expand agricultural land retention and protection efforts.