Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood. As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built?

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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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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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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. 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. DY: You write that the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative left no physical trace.

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

These changes include the Great Migration, which took place from roughly 1916 to 1970, and saw over 6 million Black Americans leave the rural South in hopes of better jobs and fairer treatment in the industrialized North. He is inferring that the plantation. Are Black Americans’ perceptions of working the land changing?

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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

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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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

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. We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. We are female; we are male.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Op-ed: Food Security Is Urgently Needed in Black Rural Appalachia A food justice advocate who grew up near this mountainous region explains how Black communities here struggle to access healthy food, and lays out ways to build local food systems that reach everyone. It could face an uncertain futureand so could visa policies.

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