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

Civil Eats

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. I did have to put huge aviaries up to protect my poultry from coyotes and sometimes a persistent fox,” she wrote in an email to Civil Eats. hopefully, eat mice and rabbits!”

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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

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A collection of essays by academic, government, and NGO experts, it provides a timely look at the impact of our industrial food system on generational poverty, diminished civic life, reduced self-determination, and a growing lack of trust in government in rural communities. And she could. By 1926, she had 10,000 birds.

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The Historical Exploitation of Agricultural and Food Workers Needs to Stop

The Equation

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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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S., We no longer trembled with fear.

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The Historical Exploitation of Agricultural and Food Workers Needs to Stop

The Equation

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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