Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Afro-Indigenous harvests: Cultivating participatory agroecologies in Guerrero, Mexico. Satellite imagery reveals widespread coconut plantations on Pacific atolls. Interdisciplinary insights into the cultural and chronological context of chili pepper ( Capsicum annuum var. domestication in Mexico.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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. Huberto markets coffee, vanilla, and even cedro trees for timber.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Alongside recipes, Sokoh also provides cultural and historical context for the dishes alongside photos from Nigerias landscapes, food markets, and people. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. No, we were not afraid anymore,” said one resident of Casiavera, recalling a blockade they formed to take back the plantations. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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