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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s.

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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

” 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. Peru still had only 100,000 acres of palm under cultivation, and Melka was seeking to triple that number, according to a documentary film, “ The King of Cocaland.”