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Vanilla is in Crisis. Producers in Mexico Are Not Giving Up

Modern Farmer

He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. The oldest vanilla plants at Juan Martinez’ plantation are six years old.

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The Community Organizing Effort That Helped Save an Urban Farm in New Orleans

Modern Farmer

But she was also a crew member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, an organization that teaches young people like herself leadership skills while they learn about sustainable agriculture. Founded in 2011, the group has provided more than 600 jobs for youth in New Orleans and taught nearly 19,000 students about sustainable agriculture during field trips.

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Q&A: A New Book Tells the Story of Food, From the Civil Rights Movement to Now

Daily Yonder

As I was reading the book, I was trying to think about ways to connect it to my own work around food security and agriculture. The other side of the story is that I come from a long history of Black farmers, Black sharecroppers, Black people who worked in agriculture and on the land. So agriculture has always been a part of my life.

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The contribution of farming to the rural environment: A farmer’s viewpoint in 1985

Sustainable Food Trust

Read the transcribed version below: THE CONTRIBUTION OF FARMING TO THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT: THE FARMER’S VIEWPOINT BY STEELE ADDISON 6 th November 1985 Agriculture has been severely criticised by the conservation lobby over the last few years. In 1947, the Agriculture Act gave the British farmer price stability for the first time.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. It has assembled a large and diverse council of regional actorsfarmers, academics from land grant universities, NGO representatives, bankerswho are actively working to push the Deltas agricultural economy toward something new.

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Chiquita Found Guilty of Murder Abroad, Other US Food Companies May Be Next

Civil Eats

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. Read More: How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires What Impacts Do the West Coast Wildfires, Smoke Have on Crops?

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Op-ed: Black Producers Have Farmed Sustainably in Kansas for Generations. Let’s Not Erase Our Progress.

Civil Eats

weve seen a much-needed push toward regenerative and sustainable agriculture to protect the environment and keep farms productive, particularly in the face of climate change. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Department of Agriculture for racial discrimination. In the U.S.,

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