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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Q&A: A New Book Tells the Story of Food, From the Civil Rights Movement to Now

Daily Yonder

Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. It was really food as an element of a larger plantation economy, designed to promote a world agricultural market. In chapter one, we look at a federal food program that is dismantled and just taken away.

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