The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. Moreover, many of them accumulated debt, faced foreclosures, and subsequently lost their land.

Sharecropping 82

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 82

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

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. In chapter one, we look at a federal food program that is dismantled and just taken away. I thought that that was just a really telling example of who those programs were actually for in the beginning.

Food 81

Food Plantation Agriculture Agriculture 81