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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

By reviving Hawaiian self-sufficiency and healing the scars left by plantations, Trask said, awa [presents] an opportunity to restore our sovereignty and our ancestral connection to the land. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.

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In Fire-Stricken Maui, Sustainable Land Management Is Key

Modern Farmer

It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. The privatization of land in the 1850s gave rise to large sugarcane and pineapple plantations—a huge divergence from Native practices of sustainable and diverse farming on communally held plots.

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. We found that when these natural elements were included in croplands, and also for forest plantations, that species abundance and species richness can be similar.

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CHICKENS UNDER COFFEE TREES

The Lunatic Farmer

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. It’s no idle threat. anywhere in the world.

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Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton

Sustainable Food Trust

A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. The large pasture is securely fenced and split into individual paddocks separated by electric fencing. The farm is small and the available pasture is enough for 35 cow-and-calf pairs and youngstock.

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These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

Civil Eats

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.