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. After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions.

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Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 95

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Photo credit: Oisakhose Aghomo Forging Pathways to Land Access for BIPOC Farmers in Georgia Emerging tools are helping young and beginning BIPOC farmers find farmland and navigate the confusing legal process needed to acquire and manage it. acre Growing Home farm grew fresh produce for restaurants and surrounding communities.

Food 89

Food Sharecropping Farming Farming 89

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. Porter’s farm faces another common challenge: he doesn’t own his farmland.

Food 97

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 97

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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 103

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. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. Today, they make up just 1.3

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Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 125

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. After the antebellum plantation system ended, exploitative and oppressive systems continued through the sharecropping system.

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Food Plantation Farming Farming 78