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. are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. And at the root of it all is a startling vulnerability: The coffee we cultivate and drink today, which sustains an industry valued at over $100 billion , comes from just two species — and research on others is woefully behind.

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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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Food Farming Farming Forage 115

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with sowing the seeds for incentive programs and educational resources down the line, more moderate initiatives can make it possible to collect federal funds. Context is everything,” says Hawaii State Representative Amy Perruso, whose state’s plantation history has resulted in a distinct political and agricultural landscape.

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