Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.

Acre 103

Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. On the farm, Arthur raised some livestock and vegetables but mostly grew row crops like tobacco. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. This was yet another exploitative system that only benefited wealthy White farmers.

Sharecropping 106

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 106

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Some are even ready to harvest. In the 1700s and 1800s, farmers in the “Garden State” relied on enslaved people to herd and slaughter animals, grow crops, maintain their meadowlands, and construct their farms. “It’s really developed into something really beautiful and productive and community-oriented.”

Food 121

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 121

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. This was yet another exploitative system that only benefited wealthy White farmers.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

When you go to a farmers market, you harvest and you hope you don't come back with much. But with the WI LFPA, what we harvested was already sold. A stark contrast from the labor forced upon his ancestors through slavery and sharecropping. He often thinks deeply about their experiences. But it's not just Black folks.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

We’d like to take that further and look at the Indigenous seed-keeping skills and technologies that develop the ‘crops’ we have today. We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock. A lot of our work is restoring the basic knowledge and traditions.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111