Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Sometimes, the coffee is picked, but heavy rains wash out the roads, and farmers can’t get their product to market. With increasingly tight margins, farm owners can’t afford the upgrades needed to make their coffee production more water-efficient, and they can’t buy new cultivars that resist coffee rust and heat.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. If there are more people engaged in production of ancestral foods, they actually begin to consume those foods again,” said Honn about the Jurana communities. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding. Context is everything,” says Hawaii State Representative Amy Perruso, whose state’s plantation history has resulted in a distinct political and agricultural landscape. I’ve never tasted vegetables like that.”

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

After the slave trade, the population of the island diversified, but the production of sugar cane and other commodity-based plantations eradicated the local indigenous agriculture. The original inhabitants of the island are of Taino descent, and they had a strong background in sustainable indigenous agriculture.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The method also tackles the significant climate impact of conventional rice production. Collectively, they cultivate seven different varieties, including the organizations signatures: Black Joy, Creole Country Red,” Black Belt Sticky, and Jubilee Justice Jasmine.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

As workers slowly gained rights, profits plummeted, and Brazil and India became competitors of cheap sugar production. Which then, of course, becomes very ironic in terms of how the plantations then [put] a horrible, detrimental end to our soil quality. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City by Yuki Kato (Forthcoming May 2025) Drawing from conversations with New Orleans residents, Yuki Kato examines the surge of urban gardening in the city during the decade after Hurricane Katrina.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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. In the meantime, rising global temperatures are exacerbating threats to production.

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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 29, 2025

weve seen a much-needed push toward regenerative and sustainable agriculture to protect the environment and keep farms productive, particularly in the face of climate change. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. In the U.S., Johnson, who was vice president under President Martin Van Buren.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2024

We also strive to cultivate perspectives from people of color, as reporters, op-ed contributors, and sources in our reporting. In 2024, for example, we wrote about the often-overlooked food angle in the Land Back Movement , which aims to return land to tribal communities. Land access was the first step.

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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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