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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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The Food and Farm Bill Must Right the Wrongs of Longstanding Racial Injustice

The Equation

They began entering contracts to access small plots of farmland in return for shares of their crop yield, establishing the new sharecropping system. As noted in a UCS report , by 1920 there were 920,000 Black farmers making up 14 percent of all farmers and owning 15 million acres of farmland.

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