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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars. Trask echoes the sentiment.

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In Fire-Stricken Maui, Sustainable Land Management Is Key

Modern Farmer

It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. The privatization of land in the 1850s gave rise to large sugarcane and pineapple plantations—a huge divergence from Native practices of sustainable and diverse farming on communally held plots.

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These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

Civil Eats

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. The benefits are just so multifaceted,” she says, “that it’s kind of a no-brainer.”

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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.