Fertilizer Processing Sharecropping 
The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
Black farmers have been subject to other systematic barriers such as longer processing times for operation loan applications and higher loan default rates, and they have been denied access to information and resources. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming.
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.
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Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Theyre as fertile as can be. 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. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.
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.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
The 29-year-old grower has carved a successful niche at local farmers markets selling unconventional crops such as Caribbean red, striped, and fish peppers, stinging nettles, and flowers, all grown using a home-brewed, brown sugar-based fertilizer. He uses a home-brewed, brown sugar-based fertilizer instead of commercial fertilizer.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Oil palm fruits being processed at Ocho Sur’s mill in Ucayali. ” Ramrez declined my request for an interview, saying it was “up to the authorities to follow the process”; Wiese, who died in an accident last year , had said his only goal in helping Melka was to help the Peruvian people. “What is oil palm?
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