Roanoke Electric Program Fights Systemic Discrimination Against African American Landowners

Roanoke Electric Cooperative’s Sustainable Forestry and Land Retention Project provides education and access to technical assistance as well as capital and estate planning services to African American landowners in order to transform unprofitable family farms and forests into economic assets and keep valuable land within families. The program was created to  combat discriminatory practices and decades of decline in African American farm ownership.

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