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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

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The method also tackles the significant climate impact of conventional rice production. 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. They have a system of production that we don’t have [in the U.S.],

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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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