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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.
Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
First, agriculture certainly matters very much to anyone who buys food, however we live in an increasingly urbanized world where the population is geographically and culturally distanced from rural food production sites. Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.
Daily Yonder
MARCH 14, 2024
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations. And it is no accident. Author Austin Frerick.
Civil Eats
JUNE 20, 2024
Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Daniel Walton Insatiable City: Food and Race In New Orleans By Theresa McCulla Do you know what and who is considered Creole?
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said. Against all odds, their family farm has persisted, part of the just 1 percent of remaining Black-owned farms in the United States. Albert Johnson Jr. Albert Johnson Sr.
The Equation
MAY 14, 2024
In response, the first farm bill, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA)—a component of the New Deal—incentivized reducing production to raise crop prices through subsidy payments and established county committees controlled by racist elite plantation owners in the South who helped determine and distribute these subsidies.
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