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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

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.

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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

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.

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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. Processing… Success! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. In chapter one, we look at a federal food program that is dismantled and just taken away.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. 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.

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