Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. The oldest vanilla plants at Juan Martinez’ plantation are six years old.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. 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.
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Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
They learn how it’s on land called Bulbancha by Indigenous people from the region, how it used to be a plantation and then, once it became a park, how it was white-only until 1958. Photo by Minh Ha/Verite News. “I
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. There we see L.C. The food was not designed to enhance their lives.
Sustainable Food Trust
OCTOBER 1, 2024
On my own farm this period is remembered by a 25-acre Scots pine plantation which was naturally regenerated on land that had previously grown wheat. In the past the farming industry has provided: The bulk of jobs in the countryside – farmworkers, contractors, wagon drivers and mechanics. The money to sustain the rural environment.
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. The fictional banana company’s power is so vast that it can bend history and memory—and murder its workers with impunity. federal statute. Even when U.S.
Civil Eats
JUNE 24, 2024
But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region. There are also subtle downsides to taste and nutrition. Currently, 70 percent of all food consumed in the U.S.
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