Pesticide Plantation Ruralism 
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.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 23, 2024
We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. 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. We are female; we are male.
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The Equation
OCTOBER 24, 2024
million agricultural workers working on US farms and ranches encounter a variety of hazards, from pesticide exposure to extreme heat. Though the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, Black Americans continued to face economic duress and violence to maintain the plantation-style economic system.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7
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. And Hawken reveals what possibilities the element may open up in the future.
Civil Eats
MAY 6, 2024
Pesticides can harm or kill mammals and can also reduce prey and attract invasive species that compete with native mammals for resources, explained Gaurav Singh-Varma, a researcher at the University of British Columbia. And that’s not the only bad news. to natural reference conditions,” said Kuipers. Photo CC-licensed by Bethany Week, 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.
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