evidence: Black land loss represents a systemic blockage of Black Americans’ opportunity to build generational wealth: One estimate suggests that the total active farmland lost since 1920 has meant more than $326 billion in lost wealth for Black farmers and their families. 3 As farmland around the country continues to pass into a smaller number of hands, a trend of consolidation that began in the early 20th century, it’s unlikely that these losses can be reversed. But with policy changes and targeted outreach, the drivers of further land loss can be halted. Meanwhile, corrective measures for historic discrimination, while politically difficult, present an opportunity to keep Black-owned farms afloat and provide some compensation to families whose land was taken from them. [...] The loss of more than 13 million acres of Black farmland over the course of the 20th century has had huge reverberations for both agriculture and the descendants of Black farmers. Lost farmland represents stolen potential to build wealth. Slowing the rate of Black land loss is possible, but it requires decisive corrective action from policy makers. This means addressing the discrimination that Black farmers continue to face from agencies like the USDA, devoting resources to amending current practices and providing settlements to resolve past cases in which Black farmers were denied aid. Outreach programs should also be developed at both the local and federal level to help Black landowners avoid the pitfalls of heirs’ property. Nonprofit legal groups have already seen success in helping organize groups of heirs to make informed decisions about shared property, consolidate ownership around new titles and keep the land in the family.