Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. Photography by Noel Rojo. Mexico belongs to the top five producers of vanilla.

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Food Tank

MAY 20, 2024

Funds will be used to develop business strategies to address social and economic challenges and ultimately, increase access to healthy food. AHA and CareFirst seek to reduce disparities Black farmers encounter in Maryland’s agriculture sector, focusing on enhancing representation and economic involvement, and access to healthy food. “I

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And in a region where many residents suffer from diet-related illnesses and do not have easy access to grocery stores selling fresh foods, Patrick offers vegetable boxes through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, as well as by producing hemp-derived CBD products meant to reduce chronic pain by holistic, non-pharmaceutical methods.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A new study out of the University of California, Irvine, published in the journal Nature Sustainability , shows that chemically synthesized dietary fats, or food fats made scientifically in a factory—not harvested from a field—could be a viable way to reduce environmental impacts in the agriculture sector. “We

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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. Still, “ag here is a tough business,” says Balthazar.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

His first book , “Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” was published in August 2023 by the University of North Carolina Press. Enjoy our conversation about food as a weapon, the dual purpose of food stamps, and the gaps left by Mississippi’s historical landmarks, below.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Which then, of course, becomes very ironic in terms of how the plantations then [put] a horrible, detrimental end to our soil quality. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii. What conditions did the sugarcane thrive in originally? Pretty diverse conditions. Where do those water diversions stand today?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Civil Eats has long covered the intersection of food, agriculture, and the climate crisis, but the droughts, floods, wildfires, and weather extremes—as well as the warnings from scientists—have grown ever more dire. The group is working to adapt more food crops to the changing climate.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Heavy, angry water As a primary food source, kalo holds a reverent place in Native Hawaiian culture, playing a prominent role in its origin story. million—a striking finding for an archipelago that now imports nearly 90 percent of its food while exporting 80 percent of its crops. We sell them, we trade them, we give them away.”

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. For centuries before Europeans reached North America, many Native Americans grew these foods together in one plot, along with the less familiar sunflower.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“One of the goals of our lab has been to shed light on practices that previously were hidden and to make everything we do publicly accessible,” Joshua Sbicca, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab at Colorado State University tells Food Tank. Plantation labor has never truly disappeared, Smith asserts.

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Kavya Organic Farm

MAY 21, 2023

Best organic farming companies in India:- Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd | Organic Farming Companies It is one of India’s top ten agriculture companies. Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd is the newly formed entity as a result of Tata Tea’s divestiture of its plantation business in East/North India.

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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

Only the rice becomes food for humans. Meanwhile, the Delta itself is a food desert. Food insecurity is rampant. food system more resilient. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. There are two convenience stores and a food pantry but no grocery.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Using fruit trees for shade improves food security for the producers, too. food market for tamale wraps. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. Founder Maricel Saenz, who grew up in Costa Rica, says Minus distributes canned cold brews to large food-service companies.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2023

We spoke with Monosson about the dangers that fungi pose to humans and our food supply and what we can do about it. I mean, the fungal kingdom is really important to everything—how we live, how we grow food… MF: Right, you talk in the book about how fungus can be helpful or harmful, and one interesting example in agriculture is bananas.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

After the slave trade, the population of the island diversified, but the production of sugar cane and other commodity-based plantations eradicated the local indigenous agriculture. Today, more than 98% of the food is imported to the islands and more than 43% of the islanders are living below the federal poverty line.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even though Frey might not have access to acres and acres of white oaks (tree plantations are a bit sparse in Nevada), he supports the planting and research projects, andhe talks about the issues with customers and other distillers. Distillers today are just the stewards of their distillery, the forest, everything.

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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

MAY 31, 2023

In our series of butcher profiles, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets butchers from across the UK who have built their business around high welfare, sustainably produced meat. A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. Photos by @M.Kunz.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors have a wide selection of food and agriculture books to recommend, both for gift-giving purposes and for the quiet moments you carve out for yourself. Tilde Herrera The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos By Mark J. The book goes beyond the problems, too.

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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. food corporations have subsidiaries or parts of their supply chain associated with ongoing human rights abuses. Still today, many of the largest U.S.

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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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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables , as well as alfalfa for animal feed—but cattle has remained the No. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It was an existential threat for the farm, which contributes tens of thousands of pounds of produce to New Orleans’ food system each year, and its youth program. They learn how it’s on land called Bulbancha by Indigenous people from the region, how it used to be a plantation and then, once it became a park, how it was white-only until 1958.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

In 2012, the Royal Society—the British equivalent of the National Academy of Science— declared refrigeration “the most important invention in the history of food and drink.” Polemic proclamations aside, refrigeration speaks volumes about our food system, says Nicola Twilley, seasoned journalist and co-host of the podcast Gastropod.

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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. Liz Carlisle in her garden.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The first season offered a poignant history of Black American food, linking it to its West African roots and enslavement in the United States. The current season leaps ahead to the 20th century and explores the momentous changes Black Americans experienced during that period and how they informed their relationship with food.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. From memoirs to cultural histories to journalistic inquiries that take on topics ranging from plant intelligence to school food to climate migration, here are 21 titles we hope you’ll enjoy.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Workers are the backbone of our agricultural and food systems; however, they have been significantly impacted by longstanding exploitation. Additionally, food system workers reported health and safety violations and food insecurity due to low wages. As a 2023 UCS report noted , the 2.4 Exclusion in labor laws In 1940, 31.8

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Workers are the backbone of our agricultural and food systems; however, they have been significantly impacted by longstanding exploitation. Additionally, food system workers reported health and safety violations and food insecurity due to low wages. As a 2023 UCS report noted , the 2.4 Exclusion in labor laws In 1940, 31.8

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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. In the U.S., These efforts come at a time when the number of small U.S.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Last week, undocumented students and their allies at my university, University of California Santa Cruz, staged a one-day walk-out demanding material support from the university, including access to on-campus housing, increased food resources and other basic needs, and equitable access to campus work opportunities.

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