Food Tank

MAY 20, 2024

As they moved along in the process, they also had the opportunity to share their stories at an in-person finale before a panel of local business leaders. Finalists underwent training in business and marketing development to enhance their brand’s story and collaborate with other Maryland Black Farmers.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. Seafood processing houses, they just cut the filet off and throw the carcass in the bin.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As it takes 90 years for an oak to fully mature, anything to speed up the process is a help. And while there are rules about how bourbon is made, the process is one that Frey thinks about a lot. “One “We can go in and interplant this improved seedling, and those trees then will pollinate mature trees that are already making acorns.

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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's entry into the palm oil industry this year represents a strategic move to enhance quality testing methods, replacing traditional processes with faster and more efficient alternatives.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2023

And now, we’ve replicated that process with the Cavendish, which is a little mind blowing. So, once a plantation becomes infected, you can’t grow those kinds of bananas there anymore. So, once a plantation becomes infected, you can’t grow those kinds of bananas there anymore.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. Processing… Success! There we see L.C. It wasn’t nutritious food.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. To bring out its best flavors, robusta must be processed, roasted, and brewed differently from arabica.

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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. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Last year, City Park’s leadership began the master planning process—to “shape the next 100 years of the park,” as Cara Lambright, then-CEO of the City Park Conservancy, put it when the project launched. In April, the City Park Conservancy announced a pause to its master planning process in order to get more community input.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And while the loss of coffee wouldn’t necessarily cause mass starvation, a whole lot relies on it: hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers and coffee-processing jobs in the tropics, as well as the gross domestic product of several countries like Nicaragua and Uganda.

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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. Most of it is done in the butchery, but the shop has a bakery and a large kitchen, one side caters for the restaurant, the other processing food for the shop. “In In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early European settlers brought flax with them and used rudimentary tools to process it. 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. She used every bit of the fiber she processed.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

And the process of turning these components into soil is incredibly slow and microscopic. It felt like a responsibility—having been born into this family that made some really big mistakes—to be part of a process of repair.” She describes this process in natural terms, as the composting of sadness and grief.

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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. What are the implications of the rest of the world rushing to build U.S.-style

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By properly layering flavors at every stage of the cooking process to give vegetables the respect she believes they deserve, Vora aims to show that it’s possible to create satisfying meals without relying on crutches like cheese and butter. ” Eventually, the concept became a rallying cry—and the name of her new book.

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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

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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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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

millionofthese workers are employed in the food sectorcultivating our produce, manufacturing our processed foods, slaughtering our meat and bussing our tables. While these reports were exaggerated, they underscore the degree to which our food system, from farms to processing to grocery and restaurant work, depend on undocumented workers.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In past decades, the large-scale consolidation of the food supply chain has reduced processing, aggregation, and transportation to a handful of companies. 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

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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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. As a result, countless people have been caught in a bureaucratic bottleneck, as Mexico’s immigration system struggles to process a surge in cases.

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