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 111

Acre Farming Farming Crop 111

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children, a job training site for teens, and a pop-up produce market for Essex County residents. Some are even ready to harvest. Our zoning is different here.

Food 123

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 123

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions. Landowners collected rent for the land as well as a percentage of the crops, while the farmers who worked it received only a small amount. There’s not many on the market.”

Acre 98

Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 98

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

While Martice and Amy enjoy selling at farmers markets, their true passion is growing food for people in need in their community. WI LFPA gives many farmers much needed income security through guaranteed contracts and a first introduction to wholesale markets. “WI And it was very, very low stress. But it's not just Black folks.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

DY: I want to just hold on this point that I found really fascinating and horrifying in the book, which is that, as far as I understand it, there was a sense in which federal food programs were conceptualized primarily as a way for farmers to sell their excess crops. Does that characterization seem right to you? Processing… Success!

Food 81

Food Plantation Agriculture Agriculture 81

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. The farm will have a market center to sell locally grown produce and artisan goods made by residents.

Agriculture 125

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 125