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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

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Mason is the founder of Jubilee Justice , a nonprofit that helps small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a dry-land method developed in the 1970s and 1980s. Methane emissions created by flooded rice paddies account for about 10 percent of global agricultural emissions.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

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—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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