Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator by Ben Brisbois The city of Machala, Ecuador describes itself as the banana capital of the world. She frames Celiac as an often-invisible disability, and disability itself as a social and political issue that cannot be addressed through science alone.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Photo: Jasmine Pankratz) Once home to large-scale plantations and ranches that dominated the landscape for more than 160 years, the steep and steady decline of Hawaiian agriculture has left fields and pastures idle by thousands of acres, often in close proximity to residential development. The sugar industry soon dominated the island economy.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

In this map, green areas are projected to be favorable to coffee cultivation by 2050, while brown areas will not be. ( A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. We’re definitely believers in using science to create quality hybrids and breeds we can work with,” she says.

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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 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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