Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

Plantation 144

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. The silver lining of COVID is that everyone is way more focused on supply chain security, she told me.

Acre 103

Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

What exactly is the cold supply chain? So, the cheeseburger couldn’t have existed without our refrigerated supply chain, and they didn’t; the earliest records are from the 1920s. Meanwhile, the global cold chain keeps expanding—between 2018 and 2020, world [refrigeration] capacity increased nearly 20 percent.

Supply Chain 139

Supply Chain Food Manufacturing Technology 139

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.

Food 143

Food Plantation Biofuel Supply Chain 143

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

And the perks go far beyond the pastures, Brillinger says: “We get cleaner air and water, healthier communities, and a huge reduction in greenhouse gas emissions” through carbon sequestration. Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding.

Agriculture 143

Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 143