Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. The oldest vanilla plants at Juan Martinez’ plantation are six years old.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 12, 2023

FarmERP, the next-generation farm management platform, has brought a specialised focus on helping Cassava farmers by extending the crop life & bringing plant mortality in Cassava plantations up by 40% through its tech-enabled platform

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Kavya Organic Farm

MAY 21, 2023

Best organic farming companies in India:- Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd | Organic Farming Companies It is one of India’s top ten agriculture companies. Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd is the newly formed entity as a result of Tata Tea’s divestiture of its plantation business in East/North India.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Which then, of course, becomes very ironic in terms of how the plantations then [put] a horrible, detrimental end to our soil quality. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii. And as the plantations came in, they were cutting down a lot of these trees. Pretty diverse conditions. law or U.S.

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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.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It has also come under fire because palm oil plantations in Asia, Latin America and West Africa have resulted in deforestation and negative impacts on human communities. Palm oil, for example, is in many processed foods at American supermarkets. Fats could be synthesized at scale, says Davis.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Before the prevalence of large-scale, Western agriculture, “every valley that had a stream had a kalo plantation,” says Derek Kekaulike Mar, as he helps peel piles of raw taro tagged for a batch of kulolo. So the health of the kalo is an indicator of health for the whole ecosystem,” Mar explains.

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Food Tank

MAY 20, 2024

Finalists who received funding through the Accelerator also include Crystal Levine of CodaBax , Ashley Drakeford of The Capital Market , Richard Francis of Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm , and Doug Adams of New Brooklyn Farms.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

The aim of the fair is to strengthen and maintain the biodiversity of the region’s gardens, milpas , coffee plantations and cacao plantations,” said Martínez in an interview a few days after the most recent edition of the fair, which he helped fundraise.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Plantation labor has never truly disappeared, Smith asserts. Food power, he explains, is exercised when one group withholds food, or the means to access or produce it, from another group to manipulate the outcome of the conflict.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. This story was originally published by The Conversation.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Photo credit: John Elk, Getty Images How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires The sugar and pineapple plantations that dominate the Hawaiian island changed the landscape, how the water flows, and contributed to the devastation of the fire.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

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. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. anywhere in the world.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. It was really food as an element of a larger plantation economy, designed to promote a world agricultural market. There we see L.C. The food was not designed to enhance their lives.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Community gardens like Baltimore’s Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm provide a wide range of benefits to the community, including providing fresh produce in areas with few places to buy fresh fruits and vegetables and having a positive impact on young people’s lives.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

After the slave trade, the population of the island diversified, but the production of sugar cane and other commodity-based plantations eradicated the local indigenous agriculture. The original inhabitants of the island are of Taino descent, and they had a strong background in sustainable indigenous agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2023

So, once a plantation becomes infected, you can’t grow those kinds of bananas there anymore. There’s no treatment for it except for maybe flooding the plantation. But, pathogenic fungi, if they are spore-producing fungi, some of those spores are really resilient, and they can live in the soil for maybe decades.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 25, 2024

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. The fictional banana company’s power is so vast that it can bend history and memory—and murder its workers with impunity. Still today, many of the largest U.S.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even though Frey might not have access to acres and acres of white oaks (tree plantations are a bit sparse in Nevada), he supports the planting and research projects, andhe talks about the issues with customers and other distillers. Distillers today are just the stewards of their distillery, the forest, everything.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The British had deforested large swaths of land to create industrial-style arabica coffee plantations, turning it into one of the world’s leading coffee producers. The kind of system that is intensive coffee plantations, or very large-scale coffee monocultures, I see that as the crisis,” she told Vox.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

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. A recent study led by Kuipers looked at the benefits of diversifying agricultural landscapes in the U.S. to natural reference conditions,” said Kuipers.

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DTN

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Gulf Coast refiners face constraints in shipping greater product volume to the East Coast, with pipeline capacity oversubscribed on the Colonial Pipeline and Products (SE) Pipe Line, commonly referred to as the Plantation Pipe Line.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. He always knew that eventually he would return to Essington Farm, but first he wanted to see a bit more of the world. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Many of the staple “commodities” imported from overseas come from regions once covered by rainforests and other critical ecosystems that stabilize the climate. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. One is specialty coffees, such as shade-grown gourmet varieties. The other, which is easier to scale, is varietals suited to new climate conditions. Photo courtesy of the author) Hardier coffee plants could buy time in the coming decades.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On my own farm this period is remembered by a 25-acre Scots pine plantation which was naturally regenerated on land that had previously grown wheat. Breakfast conversations were about whether we could survive or whether we should emigrate and start a new life in the colonies.

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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. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

They learn how it’s on land called Bulbancha by Indigenous people from the region, how it used to be a plantation and then, once it became a park, how it was white-only until 1958.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables , as well as alfalfa for animal feed—but cattle has remained the No. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. The latter tended to fare better in the North. Pockets of linen production persisted for a while, but by the middle of the 20th century, even those were gone.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region. There are also subtle downsides to taste and nutrition.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

food production in profound ways: “If you think about why we had a plantation system, and why we now have a system that still looks a lot like that, you could argue that it’s not because it’s the most productive way to produce food, but it is a very effective way to produce racial hierarchy.” Carlisle says race is implicated in current U.S.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Origins of exploitation in the food system As noted in my previous blog about the longstanding racial injustice in the agricultural system, the United States was born from the plantation system of the antebellum South, rooted in the oppression and exploitation of Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

He is inferring that the plantation. Stephen Satterfield: In part of the scene where I have a conversation [with former sharecropper Elvin Shields], I have an expression on my face like I’ve heard something surprising. is something to be reclaimed. I had frankly not ever thought about that, and I felt challenged by that notion.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Context is everything,” says Hawaii State Representative Amy Perruso, whose state’s plantation history has resulted in a distinct political and agricultural landscape.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

I’d come to this neighborhood to talk to migrants working in local agriculture, and this cluster of worn stucco apartments was a short walk from a massive mango plantation and packing house. Carme, who had just arrived home after working a 12-hour shift in the mango fields, was rail thin with high cheekbones.

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