Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Among those benefits, growing food in backyards, community gardens or urban farms can shrink the distance fruits and vegetables have to travel between producers and consumers – what’s known as the “food mile” problem. Electricity consumption often means the food grown in these high-tech environments has a big carbon footprint.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

They play critical roles in their ecosystems, sustaining and keeping in check species higher and lower on the food chain. 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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. Only the rice becomes food for humans. Meanwhile, the Delta itself is a food desert. Food insecurity is rampant. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

Bruddah began lamenting to me that he can’t afford to work or fertilize his land, that the local government has made promises ensuring water access for irrigation, but he is always left waiting and wondering when the water might come. and the Virgin Islands Good Food Alliance. Pagel “Spell” Roacher.

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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. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. The farm remains in the family today, and, as well as producing organic food, contains a rich diversity of native woodland and nature corridors.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. the Salton Sea is also suffering from eutrophication, or loss of oxygen, due largely to algae blooms fueled, in part, by fertilizer runoff. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. The sea is twice as salty as the ocean.)

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s a familiar story in the world of food. Like so much of our food system, coffee’s problems are intricate and interrelated. The British had deforested large swaths of land to create industrial-style arabica coffee plantations, turning it into one of the world’s leading coffee producers.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Her parents were farmworkers, and despite spending their days producing food, they relied on food banks to eat. Guzman’s parents gave up caring for the soil and growing food that nourished them in pursuit of greater opportunities that involved growing crops for export and other people’s profit. Soil is alive.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the last few years, there has also been renewed interest in addressing historic wrongs perpetrated against Black farmers and building a more equitable food system. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Theyd also seen advertisements promoting the land as vast, vacant, and fertile. In the U.S., So they moved.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In addition to learning about regenerative farming practices, the diverse group had gathered to understand how state-level agricultural legislation can bring about climate resilience, food security, and social equity. As Georgia state senator Kim Jackson began her welcome speech, she instructed the group to look around the room. “We

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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