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.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Among those benefits, growing food in backyards, community gardens or urban farms can shrink the distance fruits and vegetables have to travel between producers and consumers – what’s known as the “food mile” problem. But is urban agriculture really as climate-friendly as many people think? Our study, published Jan.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

The aim of the fair is to strengthen and maintain the biodiversity of the region’s gardens, milpas , coffee plantations and cacao plantations,” said Martínez in an interview a few days after the most recent edition of the fair, which he helped fundraise. And the other is that the young people just don’t want to keep farming.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. Cotton farming had begun before the Civil War, using enslaved labor, but only near the riverbanks. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Community leaders are now in conversation with the corporation that owns the pistachio farm.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The chickens fertilized the trees, ate the grass, and laid eggs. There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. Chickens are already the first farm animal awake in the morning (cows next, pigs last).

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood. Writing in 1985, Steele presents a clear-eyed view of the complex environmental, economic and social challenges that were facing farmers, many of which continue to be at the heart of today’s conversations about our food and farming system. Intensive farming, as we know it, did not exist.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

Despite the small turnout, the echoed concerns resonated – challenges such as insufficient water access, absence of grant support, high costs of farm inputs, and the struggle for land tenure. Regrettably, only five farmers attended, as the rest were immersed in preparations for the 25th annual Bordeaux Vegan Rasta Agriculture Festival.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Since then, the sea has served as the dumping ground for decades of pollution from farming as well as legacy bomb-testing material. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. In 2002, U.S. is 151 or greater. As a result, the chemicals drift.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. It’s threatened by climate change, by a deadly fungal disease that has devastated crops, and by risky farming practices. A coffee producer looks at a plant infected with leaf rust at his Costa Rican farm in 2015.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s an ironic yet common occurrence: Although Western agriculture has begun embracing regenerative farming principles, the very people who have been using these practices since time immemorial have been socially, economically, and politically forced from the lands that sustain them. It’s another part of farming, right?” Soil is alive.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On a smattering of farms across the United States, but especially in the rainy stretches of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes region, an increasing share of land is being devoted to flax. Heidi Barr and Emma De Long, the co-founders of the PA Flax Project, harvest flax at Kneehigh Farm in 2020. The crop itself is hardly new.

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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. farms, which includes most Black-owned farms, continue to decline. farms, which includes most Black-owned farms, continue to decline.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In addition to learning about regenerative farming practices, the diverse group had gathered to understand how state-level agricultural legislation can bring about climate resilience, food security, and social equity. Historically, that space has been dominated by state level farm bureaus and the larger federal, Kimbirauskas says.

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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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