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Land and Minority Enterprise: The Crisis and the Opportunity

The location, uses and changes of minority land resources are examined. The utility of an "expanded ownership" approach is demonstrated. Practical ways to implement a minority business development strategy utilizing existing minority-owned land as a base are considered. One idea in particular is discussed: the possibility of giving minority landowners access to federally owned land in ways that would contribute to the viability of existing minority farm enterprises. It has been found that black landowners have been losing their land at a rapid rate in the South in large part because the size of their individual holdings is not sufficient to generate an adequate income. Federal landownership is quite extensive in the South, where most black-owned land is concentrated. Commercial activity is already quite extensive on federal landholdings in the southeast. The use of public lands to accommodate the grazing needs of minority-owned beef cattle enterprises is one of the most interesting possibilities for systematically utilizing public land in a land-based minority development strategy. Public lands could also contribute substantially to other minority enterprise development operations as well, including a variety of specialty crop production activities and timber operations. (Author/JM).

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