Agriculture Ruralism Sharecropping 
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
But if we do it right, it will have a positive ripple effect that will benefit everyone in California and will make the San Joaquin Valley a positive example around the world for agriculture, energy, and socioenvironmental justice. It is the opposite of sustainable agriculture. But how can we do things right?
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.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. 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. So agriculture has always been a part of my life. Like what you see here? It wasn’t nutritious food.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
The rest is distributed to nearby urban and suburban areas in Yolo and Sacramento counties through food programs and community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription boxes—25 percent of it for free. ” After persistent advocacy efforts by agriculture groups, the California legislature allotted a $1.25 Today, they make up just 1.3
Civil Eats
JUNE 4, 2024
Agriculture has been a way of life and a source of meaning and pride for Black and Indigenous people for centuries, shaping rituals, beliefs, and traditions. Slavery and colonialism exploited their agricultural knowledge and shattered their lives. Civilization is built on the back of successful agriculture.
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