Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives. The film examines how neoliberal economics have disrupted food supply chains and forced small farmers out of business. Watch it on Financial Times or YouTube.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

Young Farmers opposed the bill when it was initially released and mobilized hundreds of advocates in direct and grassroots action to encourage House Agriculture Committee members to vote against it. 12301) A step back in federal farmland conservation tools for land access. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Does any of that sound familiar?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

They began entering contracts to access small plots of farmland in return for shares of their crop yield, establishing the new sharecropping system. As noted in a UCS report , by 1920 there were 920,000 Black farmers making up 14 percent of all farmers and owning 15 million acres of farmland.

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