California Democratic governor Gavin Newsom’s “agricultural equity” advisers are finalizing recommendations for the state to redistribute farmland to non-white Californians and Native American tribes through land transfers and financial assistance programs that exclusively benefit racial minorities.
For more than two years, the California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force—part of Newsom’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation—has crafted a set of policy recommendations to “equitably increase agricultural land access.” It will deliver a final report to Newsom and the California legislature cementing those recommendations by the end of the year.
The task force’s latest draft report, published ahead of the task force’s August meeting earlier this month, calls to deploy state resources to give non-white Californians a leg up in acquiring farmland, an effort it portrays as a form of reparations. The report says California should gift large amounts of state-owned lands to Native Americans, adopt indigenous knowledge practices for land management, and provide low-interest loans, downpayment assistance, and grants to fund land acquisition to black farmers.
Those and other policies, according to the task force, will help solve California’s “agricultural land equity crisis.” Land ownership statistics prove such discrimination exists, according to the report, which laments that “82% of privately held farmland in California is owned by producers who identify as white.”
“The wealth of the U.S., including that of its agriculture industry, has been built on stolen land and the forced labor of California Tribal Nations, enslaved African Americans, and other exploited communities, who have been systematically excluded from land ownership and wealth-building opportunities,” the report says. {snip}
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Citing the the colonization of California by Europeans, the task force’s draft report concludes that Native Americans should receive tens of thousands of acres of land from the state government. It recommends that the state funds programs to support land return and acquisition for tribes. And it calls on the state to offer financial incentives to exclusively benefit minority landowners, including a low-interest and forgivable loan program and a downpayment assistance program.
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