Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) considers historically underserved groups to be those that have been excluded from or have been subject to discrimination in Federal policies and programs. A stark contrast from the labor forced upon his ancestors through slavery and sharecropping. But it's not just Black folks.

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.

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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

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It reveals the deliberate ways in which agricultural policies and Jim Crow violence harmed the Black land economy, including that of her family. Baker then covers the sharecropping economy and the Great Migration , spanning the mid-1800s through the early 20th century, when Black people transitioned from enslavement to a level of autonomy.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The $160 million that the company’s backers, primarily US venture capitalists and private equity funds, have spent on its operations represents the largest foreign investment in agriculture in the history of the Peruvian Amazon. If not, he said, settlers will keep clearing primary forest and abandoning the spent land a few years later.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

He foresaw then what we know now: Our food and farming system was never designed to support Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) workers and small farmers who toil to produce our agricultural goods. In federal food and agricultural policy, the best vehicle to achieve this change is the food and farm bill.

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