Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Well, as it happens, my colleagues and I recently checked out a project the Crop Trust is supporting in Suriname that involves the regeneration and safety duplication in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault of Maroon rice varieties. Bambara groundnut), as seeds lost viability during the farmer’s absence.

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Plantation Crop Seeding Cultivation 290

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Planting the Seeds of Justice This article is part of our ongoing series, Planting the Seeds of Justice , in which we focus on the connections between climate, health, soil health, and equity for farmers of color. She chuckles while explaining how she got there: in an RV with two loved ones and two dogs.

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Plantation Acre Farming Farming 126

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 111

Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

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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Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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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Ranching Plantation Food Crop 133

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. There are two major threats to criolla [native] seeds today,” said Fuentes.

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Crop Plantation Seeding Agriculture 114