Farmland Fertilizer Sharecropping 
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Theyre as fertile as can be. 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. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. It really is modern-day sharecropping. The delays in payment could be devastating.
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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. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. “You need at least $1 million to purchase farmland in California, and that doesn’t even include the tools, infrastructure, resources, and the labor.” He uses a home-brewed, brown sugar-based fertilizer instead of commercial fertilizer.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Land-trafficking mafias , which operate in every region of Peru, have allowed developers to launder unclaimed swaths of rainforest into legal farmland. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. “Melka is the game changer,” Dammert told me. “What is oil palm?
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