Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. The oldest vanilla plants at Juan Martinez’ plantation are six years old.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Chekeita Strong, a former youth staff member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, sits by the bayou at the farm in New Orleans. But she was also a crew member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, an organization that teaches young people like herself leadership skills while they learn about sustainable agriculture. Photography by Minh Ha/Verite News.

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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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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. So I show how the North Bolivar County Farm cooperative in many ways is a direct response to the ways in which food was withheld from Black communities. There we see L.C. It wasn’t nutritious food.

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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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Civil Eats

JUNE 25, 2024

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. Both the National Corn Growers Association and American Farm Bureau Federation are part of a new lawsuit challenging the U.S. federal statute.

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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.

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