Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. Seafood processing houses, they just cut the filet off and throw the carcass in the bin. agriculture.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. 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.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Currently, he’s looking into a research forest in central Indiana with a crop of white oak. As it takes 90 years for an oak to fully mature, anything to speed up the process is a help. And while there are rules about how bourbon is made, the process is one that Frey thinks about a lot. “One

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed. Coffee plants usually take three to four years to produce their first yield, making the crop a gamble at startup, but rising global demand may provide the incentive. Mexico has nearly 1.5

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2023

And now, we’ve replicated that process with the Cavendish, which is a little mind blowing. So, once a plantation becomes infected, you can’t grow those kinds of bananas there anymore. So, once a plantation becomes infected, you can’t grow those kinds of bananas there anymore. Why is that?

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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. Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. Processing… Success! There we see L.C. It wasn’t nutritious food.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s threatened by climate change, by a deadly fungal disease that has devastated crops, and by risky farming practices. In Latin America, which produces around 60 percent of the world’s coffee crop, this figure could be as high as 88 percent. Coffee is under attack from all sides.

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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. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Rows of crops lead up to a plant nursery at Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans. Last year, City Park’s leadership began the master planning process—to “shape the next 100 years of the park,” as Cara Lambright, then-CEO of the City Park Conservancy, put it when the project launched. Photography by Drew Costley/Verite News.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The crop itself is hardly new. Early European settlers brought flax with them and used rudimentary tools to process it. 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. But they’re very curious to hear more.”

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Guzman’s parents gave up caring for the soil and growing food that nourished them in pursuit of greater opportunities that involved growing crops for export and other people’s profit. And the process of turning these components into soil is incredibly slow and microscopic. “People like my parents, they were pushed off the land.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital. ” Eventually, the concept became a rallying cry—and the name of her new book.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region. There’s also evidence that nutrient levels have fallen as crops are bred for the cold chain. style cold systems?

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Power of State Policymaking The Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP)—a subset of SiX’s Agriculture and Food Systems program—currently includes elected officials from 43 states who are positioned to advance socially and ecologically responsible rural, agricultural, and food policy.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

Tapachula was founded by the Aztecs in the 15th century, and just as it was then, the region today is an agricultural hub and a major producer of crops like corn, coffee, mangoes, and bananas. As a result, countless people have been caught in a bureaucratic bottleneck, as Mexico’s immigration system struggles to process a surge in cases.

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