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Map: Native Lands: An online mapping tool that visualizes the historic lands of indigenous and native peoples around the world.

Report: Supporting Native Ecological Stewardship and Land Protection: This report from the First Nations Development Institute shares outcomes and activities associated with Native American ecological stewardship and protection of Native lands. It also identifies issues and key takeaways affecting Native communities’ natural resource management and protection.

Podcast: The Land of Our Fathers, Part II: 40-minute podcast that explores how prejudice and racism shaped agricultural loan programs in the U.S. and how it affects Black farmers today. June and Angie Provost, who trace their family line to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this story well.

Podcast: The Land of Our Fathers, Part I: More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of Black land ownership in America remains one of loss and dispossession. This 30-minute podcast explores how policies and practices have shaped Black farming and land ownership.

Article: Racial Equity in the Farm Bill: Article describing the barriers for farmers of color as related to the Farm Bill and other policies

How to work with communities: Resources on how to work effectively and respectfully with diverse communities, from initial outreach and communication to ongoing engagement and partnership. This is especially relevant when working with communities that have different backgrounds, identities, and experiences than the conservation professional.

Guide: Making Equity Real in Climate Adaptation and Community Resilience Policies and Programs: A Guidebook from the Greenlining Insitute, a nonprofit founded in 1993, that works to create a nation where communities of color thrive and race is never a barrier to economic opportunity. To prioritize the climate adaptation and community resilience needs of frontline communities and address the historical neglect they have experienced, we must move beyond embracing equity to making it real. This requires centering community needs and building social equity into the very fabric of policies and grant programs that focus on climate adaptation and resilience. To get there, this Guidebook offers policymakers a blueprint on how to operationalize equity in policies and grant programs

Video: Environmental Justice is About Engaging with Communities on a Personal Level: Short video with Edith Pestana. Part of a series from the EPA featuring federal and local government officials, non-profit leaders, and students, who tell stories about the lessons they have learned over their time working on environmental justice.

Guide: The Spectrum of Public Participation: The Spectrum of Public Participation was created by the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)—an international professional organization that works to advance the practice of public participation globally. The Spectrum is a useful tool for professionals to consider opportunities to improve and deepen public participation and engagement.

Training: Training resources to educate and equip conservation practitioners with skills to work thoughtfully and responsively with diverse communities in the landscape

Resources: Resources to support practitioners and community members learn more about equity and inclusion in the context of working lands and conservation

Community Hub: Spaces where practitioners and communities can collaborate together on working land and conservation efforts while centering equity and inclusion

Tribal and Community Based Organizations: Explore a list of community-based organizations that lead work with and for diverse and historically underserved communities and Tribal groups that work with and for sovereign Tribal Nations.

iStock-1226958325.jpg: Young Colombian woman and African American man farmers talking outdoors on background with ploughed field and industrial greenhouses

Hispanic Couple with vegetables: A variety of fruits and vegetables are included in a typical Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) produce box from Huerta del Valle (HdV), this one held by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Redlands District Conservationist Tomas Aguilar-Campos, and prepared by HdV Co-Founder and Executive Director Maria Alonso at the 4-Acre organic Community Supported Garden and Farm in the middle of a low-income urban community, where they work closely with her as she continues to improve the farm operation in Ontario, California, on Nov. 13, 2018. - Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/51071040423/in/gallery-72814607@N02-72157721076517284/

woman-with-tomatoes.jpg: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue tours Mastronardi Produce, Coldwater, MI, on April 3, 2018. Founded by Umberto Mastronardi more than 60 years ago, the fourth generation of the Mastronardi family owns and manages a year-round operation of greenhouses that produce tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Vine-ripened produce is harvested by hand when possible. The greenhouses use modern technology and sustainable growing practices to reduce the impact on the environment (i.e. they use one-tenth the water of a conventional grower). Their second phase of greenhouses use diffused glass, energy curtains, grow lights to help in the winter months, automated harvest carts for ergonomic harvesting, recycled water and fertilizer, and a rainwater irrigation system. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

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