Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Acre 111

Acre Crop Farming Farming 111

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. Many experienced tremendous economic loss and lost their land as a result.

Sharecropping 112

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 112

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. Many experienced tremendous economic loss and lost their land as a result.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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.

Food 81

Food Plantation Agriculture Agriculture 81