Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By reviving Hawaiian self-sufficiency and healing the scars left by plantations, Trask said, awa [presents] an opportunity to restore our sovereignty and our ancestral connection to the land. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.

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Food Plantation Acre Production 123

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Rubba visits all the farms that supply the restaurant, asking about their crop rotations , soil health practices, and how the farmworkers are treated. “I Even when grown in the U.S.,

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Food Farming Farming Supply Chain 141

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop. Her research explores where flax can be incorporated most effectively into existing crop systems.

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Textiles Supply Chain Processing Harvester 120

Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Theyd also seen advertisements promoting the land as vast, vacant, and fertile. Stewards of the Land Nicodemus was settled by my great-great-grandparentsalong with 300 other freed slaveswho left the oppressive Reconstruction-era South and migrated west in 1877 in search of opportunity.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 139

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. Several Western and Midwestern states, however, have managed to promote conservation-minded practices through modest incentives.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 133