Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Barriers to owning, operating, and modernizing farmland date back over a century. percent today.

Plantation 127

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 127

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

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. Agencies like the U.S.

Farming 143

Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 143

Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

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. The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Money Making by Kathryn L.

Food 133

Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

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.

Agriculture 102

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 102

The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Origins of exploitation in the food system As noted in my previous blog about the longstanding racial injustice in the agricultural system, the United States was born from the plantation system of the antebellum South, rooted in the oppression and exploitation of Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

Food 116

Food Agriculture Agriculture Plantation 116

Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. The loss of these small farms hurts rural communities, paves the way for environmentally harmful monocropping, and prevents farmers from building economic power through agriculture.

Farming 140

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 140