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

Civil Eats

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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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. “Melka is the game changer,” Dammert told me.