Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. He has plansbut no financing so farfor a 15,000-square-foot plant that would make dried vegetable chips.

Acre 80

Acre Farming Farming Crop 80

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Next to the entrance is an eye-catching display of bedding plants which are grown in one of the farm’s greenhouses. A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. The shop is housed in a modern, one-storey building. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 25, 2024

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule for heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, which aims to curb smog, soot, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Food 131

Food Plantation Biofuel Supply Chain 131