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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

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

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

Civil Eats

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.

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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

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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In Oaxaca, a State Fair That Celebrates Native Crops’ Rich Legacy

Modern Farmer

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.

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The Historical Exploitation of Agricultural and Food Workers Needs to Stop

The Equation

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.

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The Historical Exploitation of Agricultural and Food Workers Needs to Stop

The Equation

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.

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Op-ed: Black Producers Have Farmed Sustainably in Kansas for Generations. Let’s Not Erase Our Progress.

Civil Eats

The loss of these small farms hurts rural communities, paves the way for environmentally harmful monocropping, and prevents farmers from building economic power through agriculture. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Our closest hub, based in Colorado , assists us in areas like soil testing and pesticide-free farming.

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