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Maroon rice destined for Svalbard

Agricultural Biodiversity

Naming and origin stories show a clear reference to the escape from plantations and the leading role of women in farming and food security. In some fields, a small patch was reserved for a rice type with very dark grains, used mostly for ritual purposes. Results also show adoption of more recently introduced rice varieties.”

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn. Drying rice at the Jubilee Justice mill, November 2024.

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21 New Books to Inspire the Movement for Sustainable Food Systems

Food Tank

The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua by Alex M. Nading (Forthcoming May 2025) With immense growth in Nicaraguas sugarcane industry came immense sickness: high temperatures, water scarcity, and overuse of agrochemicals has led to death and disease of thousands of plantation workers.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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. After World War I, Blacks began to migrate to cities in the North, looking for more opportunityand less lynching.

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Our Best Climate Reporting of 2023

Civil Eats

An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. The ‘stock cropper’ method—raising chickens, hogs, and sheep between rows of grains—promises much-needed change to the U.S. Could This Mobile, Solar-Powered Livestock Barn Reshape the Corn Belt? farm landscape. Now it’s on the verge of scaling up. Researchers Explain How.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Gilbert (Forthcoming March 2024) Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming the Land tells the story of a group of Indonesian agricultural workers who started a movement when they began occupying an agribusiness plantation near their homes. Author David E.

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