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. Editors Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King, and Jakob A.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Sometimes, the coffee is picked, but heavy rains wash out the roads, and farmers can’t get their product to market. With increasingly tight margins, farm owners can’t afford the upgrades needed to make their coffee production more water-efficient, and they can’t buy new cultivars that resist coffee rust and heat.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bourbon production overall in the state has increased 475 percent since 1999. Mattingly is testing for vigor, bolting, acorn production and elements important to a barrel manufacturer: tannins and taste. These trees have good bolting, they’re strong and their seeds are excellent genetic material. million barrels in 2021.

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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. Its no accident that blues music, the Deltas best-known product, emerged in this region, according to historian John C.

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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. are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In the meantime, rising global temperatures are exacerbating threats to production. There’s no doubt about it that coffee production has been a cause of massive deforestation,” Davis said. Most coffee (which comes from roasting and grinding the seed of the plant’s cherry-like fruit) is generally perceived as tasting too harsh.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But the varieties now springing up in places that have long been dominated by corn, wheat and soybeans aren’t meant to be used for seed. Flax fibers are used to make products ranging from twine to banknotes. In North America, linen production is all but nonexistent, save for one very small mill in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Here, in the small community of El Pedregal de San Juan, in the state of Hidalgo, Guzman says she was amazed by the rain-fed milpa system of growing corn, wheat, and squash that her uncles still maintained, using seeds that have been in her family for generations. “I I was just so enamored,” she says.

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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 29, 2025

weve seen a much-needed push toward regenerative and sustainable agriculture to protect the environment and keep farms productive, particularly in the face of climate change. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. In the U.S., Johnson, who was vice president under President Martin Van Buren.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with sowing the seeds for incentive programs and educational resources down the line, more moderate initiatives can make it possible to collect federal funds. Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Corporate Piracy The countrys genetic heritage law aims to compensate Indigenous peoples for their knowledge of the plants and seeds that many US food and agribusiness companies use to develop profitable products. Land access was the first step.

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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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