Industrial Agriculture, Sharecropping and Supply Chain

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

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center.

Plantation

Plantation Farming Farming Acre

The Food and Farm Bill Must Right the Wrongs of Longstanding Racial Injustice

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

In federal food and agricultural policy, the best vehicle to achieve this change is the food and farm bill. The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S.

Food

Food Plantation Farming Farming

Agriculture Informer

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

The Food and Farm Bill Must Right the Wrongs of Longstanding Racial Injustice

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