Acre Crop Sharecropping 
The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming.
Modern Farmer
JUNE 30, 2023
Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. It’s still run by the family today, now growing 100 acres of mostly sweet potatoes, the warm-climate vegetable that is an important staple in African American foodways.
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Wisconsin Farmers Union
JULY 9, 2024
Full Circle Healing Farm is a two acre vegetable, herb, and flower farm in Mequon. The farm is located on the Fondy Farm at the Mequon Nature Preserve , a 40 acre incubator farm that has the mission of providing affordable, long-term leases to historically underserved producers. He often thinks deeply about their experiences.
Modern Farmer
JULY 16, 2024
Because she doesn’t have at least five acres, her application to join the federal Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program – which would have enabled her to accept food vouchers from low-income seniors – was denied four times. “We need the state of New Jersey to take urban [agriculture] seriously,” said Mustafa.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. In the case of Allensworth, the town is surrounded by hundreds of acres of pistachios that belong to a trillion-dollar insurance company.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3
The Equation
MAY 14, 2024
The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. They aimed to maximize profits by exploiting humans and the environment through cheap labor, human commodification, and maximizing yields of a few commodity crops that degraded the soil.
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