Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources.

Food 124

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 124

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Black farmers have been subject to other systematic barriers such as longer processing times for operation loan applications and higher loan default rates, and they have been denied access to information and resources. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming.

Sharecropping 87

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 87

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. Its like full circle.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. The land ownership is predominantly white, the poverty disproportionately Black.

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

When you go to a farmers market, you harvest and you hope you don't come back with much. But with the WI LFPA, what we harvested was already sold. Martice also sees farming as a healing practice that allows him to process generational trauma by taking back the act of farming as a resilient, freely-made choice.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Oil palm fruits being processed at Ocho Sur’s mill in Ucayali. ” Ramrez declined my request for an interview, saying it was “up to the authorities to follow the process”; Wiese, who died in an accident last year , had said his only goal in helping Melka was to help the Peruvian people.

Plantation 115

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 115