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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. The sugar industry soon dominated the island economy.

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

Civil Eats

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

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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. Since the 1950s, we’ve lost about 1 percent of our farmlands annually. Pretty diverse conditions. law or U.S.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

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. Opala says plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for dragging these expert farmers across the Atlantic into North American slavery.

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

Civil Eats

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. It affects the type of habitats that the animals can use.” to natural reference conditions,” said Kuipers.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Gilbert (Forthcoming March 2024) Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming the Land tells the story of a group of Indonesian agricultural workers who started a movement when they began occupying an agribusiness plantation near their homes. Author David E.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; today it is less than 2 percent.

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