Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Climate change causes labor problems and hurts farm owners, too. Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia.

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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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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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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.

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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?”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. What were doing [at Jubilee Justice] is reclaiming rice and rice farming as our foodways, as our invention, as our birthrightand in that is nothing but the spirit of the ancestors.

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Gilbert (Forthcoming March 2024) Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming the Land tells the story of a group of Indonesian agricultural workers who started a movement when they began occupying an agribusiness plantation near their homes. Author David E. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the book, we meet Brandon Kaufman, a Kansas farmer who, after generations of family farming, plans “to get a divorce from wheat” to focus on perennials as a way to nurture the soil and the vital underground network of insects and microorganisms within it. Every chapter dives into alternate ways of raising those same foods.

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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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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. 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.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

” Her new book, Frostbite , plunges readers into the chilly depths of the cold chain—the refrigerated infrastructure that envelops our food as it moves from farm to table—and the far-reaching consequences of developing a food system utterly dependent on cold preservation, storage, and delivery. If the U.S.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2024

On Cape Cod, the Wampanoag Assert Their Legal Right to Harvest the Waters Not everyone respects that right. A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. 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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

I’d come to this neighborhood to talk to migrants working in local agriculture, and this cluster of worn stucco apartments was a short walk from a massive mango plantation and packing house. And one of the key reasons for that is the explosion in demand for fresh fruit, including the mangoes that Carme and so many others harvest.

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