Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Naming and origin stories show a clear reference to the escape from plantations and the leading role of women in farming and food security. .” The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname. ” Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory.

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Berkeley Blog

JUNE 28, 2024

“If we were to approach the plantation with an intention to hold space for the Black people who stayed and labored there, we might see the plantation as another origin story," says Alisha Gaines, a professor of English at Florida State University.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 19, 2025

This suggests that the total value in plantations is not simply a financial equation. There is significant social and ecological value in conserving larger areas of biodiversity-rich natural forests and reducing economic demands on those forests by increasing yields from planted forests.

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biotechnology Plantation Forestry Ecology 59

Agric4profits

JANUARY 27, 2025

Performance of the orchard or the plantation depends on the quality of nursery preparation, technique and management. The foundation of Tree crop production is actually the Nursery practices and management. This article will take you through nursery techniques and practices of the nursery husbandry in Tree crop cultivation.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By reviving Hawaiian self-sufficiency and healing the scars left by plantations, Trask said, awa [presents] an opportunity to restore our sovereignty and our ancestral connection to the land. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Opala says plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for dragging these expert farmers across the Atlantic into North American slavery.

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Agric4profits

AUGUST 23, 2024

The performance of the orchard or the plantation depends on the quality of prep The foundation of tree crop production is the nursery practices and management.

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Plantation Orchard Crop Production 103

AGRIVI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Beans must be picked, processed, dried, and roasted on a coffee plantation in order to maintain their full quality. Thus, managing a successful coffee plantation means having an efficient flow and overview of all farm work operations and real-time insights from the field. This is her story of digital transformation.

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Agric4profits

AUGUST 23, 2024

You will realize that post-planting maintenance and services of a tree crop orchard or plantation is an all–year–round activity. It embraces various operati

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua by Alex M. Nading (Forthcoming May 2025) With immense growth in Nicaraguas sugarcane industry came immense sickness: high temperatures, water scarcity, and overuse of agrochemicals has led to death and disease of thousands of plantation workers.

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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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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

For its part, Checkplant, which operates in key areas for Brazilian agriculture, such as Mato Grosso, Bahia, Paran and Goias, has a significant track record and portfolio of large farms among its customers, covering 50% of the total area of cotton plantations and 11% of the total area of soybean plantations in Brazil.

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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

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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Plantation Agriculture Agriculture Ecology 98

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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Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The IAS-6100 is compact and portable, making it ideal for diverse settings, including offices, production sites, laboratories, and plantations. IAT offers palm oil quality detection tools to analyse various materials such as palm fruit, FFB, EFB, CPO/PKO, palm kernels, pressed fiber, and production waste.

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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Gilbert (Forthcoming March 2024) Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming the Land tells the story of a group of Indonesian agricultural workers who started a movement when they began occupying an agribusiness plantation near their homes. Author David E.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. After World War I, Blacks began to migrate to cities in the North, looking for more opportunityand less lynching.

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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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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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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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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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Plantation Food Grain Processing 98

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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