Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. For years, a few people in the region have preached the gospel of specialty crops. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi. food system more resilient.

Acre 103

Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

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. Moreover, many of them accumulated debt, faced foreclosures, and subsequently lost their land.

Sharecropping 107

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 107

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. Moreover, many of them accumulated debt, faced foreclosures, and subsequently lost their land.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. But in places where Black sharecroppers were really in need of federal food subsidies, white farmers could benefit from the crop programs and then their counties could go ahead and opt out of the food programs.

Food 81

Food Plantation Agriculture Agriculture 81