Tyrone is one of many families concerned for the future of family-owned small farms and land. In this impoverished region of the Black Belt, where agriculture and timber industries dominate the economy, preserving the 1 million acres of at-risk family land is a critical strategy for local economic development and local wealth. Land loss and out-migration has plagued ancestral land across the south, with African-American-owned land decreasing from 15 million acres to 2 million acres over the last 100 years.
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