Fertilizer Pesticide Plantation 
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
(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.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 9, 2024
In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides.
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Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Many of the staple “commodities” imported from overseas come from regions once covered by rainforests and other critical ecosystems that stabilize the climate. Take chocolate , for instance.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 4, 2023
As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. It’s treated, in most cases, with conventional fertilizers and pesticides, and is harvested, processed and made into cloth using huge machinery.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 23, 2024
Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 10, 2024
And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more. A field of Hopi corn, nonirrigated, grown with no herbicides, pesticides, or soil amenities such as nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Soil is alive.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.
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