Arable Land Cultivation Plantation 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth. The colonists set their sights on the peoples of Africas Rice Coast, from present-day Senegal down to Liberia, who had developed sophisticated rice cultivation systems.
Civil Eats
JUNE 20, 2024
—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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