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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Yet intense competition for land in the state has widened the gap in farm ownership, she adds.

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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

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. After an hour, Doldourov swung onto a dirt road with tire-swallowing holes. “That is where the conflict began,” he recalled.