Naomi Beingessner is a social scientist from Treaty Four Territory, Canada, based in Scotland. She is a human geographer with research interests that focus on land tenure and property regimes, multi-stakeholder decision making, and food systems. 

The Isle of Skye croft grazings with sheep image by Rafaella Senna
Essay
Radically reimagining land ownership and governance for a sustainable food transition
Several pioneering farmers and growers in the Netherlands have started to change the way they ‘own’ agricultural land, and have embarked on a collaboration with researchers to collectively reimagine ways in which agricultural property is used under the law. This essay explores how these examples from the Netherlands could inspire agricultural property relations in Scotland, a country with both the most concentrated private land ownership in Europe, and a unique legal infrastructure for recognising community ownership. By Lin Batten (PhD Researcher at the University of Strathclyde) and Naomi Beingessner (Qualitative Researcher in Land Tenure and Governance at the James Hutton Institute).
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