Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Photo credit: Oisakhose Aghomo Forging Pathways to Land Access for BIPOC Farmers in Georgia Emerging tools are helping young and beginning BIPOC farmers find farmland and navigate the confusing legal process needed to acquire and manage it. Here is our best food justice reporting this year.

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Food Sharecropping Farming Farming 88

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country.

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Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 124

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Ujamaa’s mission is to cultivate and create agency for BIPOC farmers and give their communities easy access to the foods important to them. Adeeb: There was a loss of farmland, farm traditions, knowledge, and skills being passed from one generation to the other due to migration. How will the oral history project support that?

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Food Seeding Farming Farming 139