Food Tank
MARCH 19, 2025
Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator by Ben Brisbois The city of Machala, Ecuador describes itself as the banana capital of the world. She frames Celiac as an often-invisible disability, and disability itself as a social and political issue that cannot be addressed through science alone.
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. Food Activism Today: Sustainability, Climate Change, and Social Justice by Donald M.
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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.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 10, 2024
asks Kori Czuy, one of the instructors at Soil Camp and the manager of Indigenous science connections at the TELUS Spark Science Centre in Calgary. Western science always wants to name and categorize things definitively, but that’s not how Czuy teaches students. Carlisle says race is implicated in current U.S.
Civil Eats
MAY 21, 2024
A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. We’re definitely believers in using science to create quality hybrids and breeds we can work with,” she says. One is specialty coffees, such as shade-grown gourmet varieties. The other, which is easier to scale, is varietals suited to new climate conditions.
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.
Civil Eats
JULY 17, 2023
Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. And new science about the connection between water pollution and air quality suggests more investment is needed. New science shows that airborne algae and harmful toxins produced in oxygen-free, nutrient-rich waters are a growing concern.
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