Pesticide Plantation Production 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.
Food Tank
MARCH 19, 2025
Ben Brisbois reveals the less-palatable side of the banana industry, from devastating health impacts of pesticides to imperialism and ecological destruction. The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua by Alex M. Still, Ochoa offers hope for a future that prioritizes justice and well-being for Mexicans.
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Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Photo: Jasmine Pankratz) Once home to large-scale plantations and ranches that dominated the landscape for more than 160 years, the steep and steady decline of Hawaiian agriculture has left fields and pastures idle by thousands of acres, often in close proximity to residential development. The sugar industry soon dominated the island economy.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 9, 2024
In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides. It makes us happy to be able to offer the products that we grow.”
Civil Eats
JULY 17, 2023
Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. In 2002, U.S.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Flax fibers are used to make products ranging from twine to banknotes. In North America, linen production is all but nonexistent, save for one very small mill in Nova Scotia, Canada. Pockets of linen production persisted for a while, but by the middle of the 20th century, even those were gone.
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