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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. If those large extractive corporations make a profit with their cash crops, it is because they do not pay the real cost of their operations. It sounds dreadful, doesn’t it?

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. He grows organic vegetables and industrial hemp, as well as wheat, soybeans, and corn.

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Are Companies Using Carbon Markets to Sell More Pesticides?

Civil Eats

From their perspective, these are future clients, or they may be existing clients,” said Ben Lilliston, the director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop.

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