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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Food Tank is rounding up 25 books about the past, present, and future of global food and agriculture systems to get you through the winter. Insatiable City by Theresa McCulla explores race, power, and social status in New Orleans through the lens of food. In Chop Chop , Ozoz Sokoh celebrates Nigerian cuisine through 100 recipes.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

And in a region where many residents suffer from diet-related illnesses and do not have easy access to grocery stores selling fresh foods, Patrick offers vegetable boxes through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, as well as by producing hemp-derived CBD products meant to reduce chronic pain by holistic, non-pharmaceutical methods.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Only the rice becomes food for humans. Meanwhile, the Delta itself is a food desert. Food insecurity is rampant. food system more resilient. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.;

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In Fire-Stricken Maui, Sustainable Land Management Is Key

Modern Farmer

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. Still, “ag here is a tough business,” says Balthazar.

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How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires

Civil Eats

Which then, of course, becomes very ironic in terms of how the plantations then [put] a horrible, detrimental end to our soil quality. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii. What conditions did the sugarcane thrive in originally? Pretty diverse conditions. Where do those water diversions stand today?

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

They play critical roles in their ecosystems, sustaining and keeping in check species higher and lower on the food chain. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

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