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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

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. Ujamaa’s Hawkins also sees the collective cultivating much more than food.

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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

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. ” In Spoor’s view, only sustained investment could lead to the cultivation of valuable crops like oil palm on all the degraded land we had passed. After an hour, Doldourov swung onto a dirt road with tire-swallowing holes.