Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This radically seasonal, regional restaurant sources its ingredients exclusively from the ocean, climate-adapted farms, and wild plants of the Mid-Atlantic. Come February, we have this very short farm list. They source sunflower and canola oil from Pennsylvania farms. Toward the end of winter, it gets a little. agriculture.

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

” xFarm Technologies, a leading tech company in the digitalisation of agriculture that supports more than 500,000 farms every day, together with an ecosystem of more than a hundred large companies on a total area of 8.3

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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. The sugar industry soon dominated the island economy.

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Kavya Organic Farm

MAY 21, 2023

Best organic farming companies in India:- Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd | Organic Farming Companies It is one of India’s top ten agriculture companies. Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd is the newly formed entity as a result of Tata Tea’s divestiture of its plantation business in East/North India.

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Food Tank

MAY 20, 2024

His startup aims to establish an Aquaponics farming complex in Baltimore, Maryland, using recycled shipping containers and implement a training program for public and private schools. Less than 2 percent of Maryland farmers are Black and 26 percent of total Maryland farm sales are from Black farmers.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Farms Adapt to Climate Change Sorghum—popular among young, BIPOC, and under-resourced farmers—has extra long roots that allow it to withstand drought and sequester greenhouse gasses. farm landscape. Perennial Crops Boost Biodiversity Both On and Off Farms. An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. So the health of the kalo is an indicator of health for the whole ecosystem,” Mar explains.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 12, 2023

FarmERP, the next-generation farm management platform, has brought a specialised focus on helping Cassava farmers by extending the crop life & bringing plant mortality in Cassava plantations up by 40% through its tech-enabled platform

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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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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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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Climate change causes labor problems and hurts farm owners, too. With increasingly tight margins, farm owners can’t afford the upgrades needed to make their coffee production more water-efficient, and they can’t buy new cultivars that resist coffee rust and heat. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

In our series of butcher profiles, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets butchers from across the UK who have built their business around high welfare, sustainably produced meat. If it weren’t for the signposts, first time visitors to the farm shop and butchers might well miss the entrance.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Sbicca explains that farms have played a crucial role in the history of prisons in the U.S. In the North, prisons relied on gardens and other farming practices for their operations, Sbicca continues. Plantation labor has never truly disappeared, Smith asserts.

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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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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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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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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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. Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. There we see L.C. It wasn’t nutritious food.

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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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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

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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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

million agricultural workers working on US farms and ranches encounter a variety of hazards, from pesticide exposure to extreme heat. Though the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, Black Americans continued to face economic duress and violence to maintain the plantation-style economic system.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

Tom Farquhar planted several large plots of beneficial flowers around his vegetable farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. Once a conventional corn and soybean farm, the idea was to control pests at the Certified Naturally Grown operation by increasing the number of beneficial predator insects and spiders. Runoff from U.S.

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

His latest book takes a deep dive into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to demonstrate how intertwined carbon is with the human experience. The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua by Alex M. And Hawken reveals what possibilities the element may open up in the future.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

Map credit: Hawaii Statewide GIS Program) The sugarcane and pineapple industries reigned for nearly two centuries , with monocropping farming methods made exceptionally profitable with indentured servitude. Which then, of course, becomes very ironic in terms of how the plantations then [put] a horrible, detrimental end to our soil quality.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The ‘Mother Tree’ at Star Hill Farm. The university began the project by collecting 300 distinct families of white oak from around the US and planting them at Star Hill Farm, the home of Maker’s Mark. That first year, farm workers and researchers planted 1,700 individual trees.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

million agricultural workers working on US farms and ranches encounter a variety of hazards, from pesticide exposure to extreme heat. Though the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, Black Americans continued to face economic duress and violence to maintain the plantation-style economic system.

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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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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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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

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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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 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.

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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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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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