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Tractor

Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines. All his siblings left, too.

Acre

Acre Crop Farming Farming

A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. The United States later financed a mill that would be run by a farmer cooperative. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy.

Plantation

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop

Transforming the Delta

A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

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