Our Commons: Access For All

We don’t inherit the land from our ancestors, we steward it for our children. That’s why iFarm is not for private profit and has an asset lock; we’ll ensure our assets are protected for future generations and enjoy access for all. iFarm are committed to bringing assets into community ownership to ensure they reside in the commons; allowing access for all.

The Commons

The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.

Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit.

Characteristically, this involves a variety of informal norms and values (social practice) employed for a governance mechanism. Commons can be also defined as a social practice of governing a resource not by state or market, but by a community of users that self-governs the resource through institutions that it creates.