Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Photo credit: Oisakhose Aghomo Forging Pathways to Land Access for BIPOC Farmers in Georgia Emerging tools are helping young and beginning BIPOC farmers find farmland and navigate the confusing legal process needed to acquire and manage it.

Food 124

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 124

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. But the process hasn’t always come easily. After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions.

Acre 95

Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 95

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.;

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. Claimants were supposed to receive payments soon after, but because of confusing paperwork and processing issues, very few did.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology.

Agriculture 104

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 104

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. “You need at least $1 million to purchase farmland in California, and that doesn’t even include the tools, infrastructure, resources, and the labor.” million grant in 2022 to Ujamaa for the purchase of a medium-sized plot of land in Yolo County.

Cultivation 144

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Oil palm fruits being processed at Ocho Sur’s mill in Ucayali. Land-trafficking mafias , which operate in every region of Peru, have allowed developers to launder unclaimed swaths of rainforest into legal farmland. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy.

Plantation 115

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 115