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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

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Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

Civil Eats

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Hummingbird does this by acting as the missing link between the area’s organic farms, retailers, and restaurants, building a regional supply chain that chefs that quickly tap into.

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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. They’re all looking to address supply chain problems and quality issues.” One is specialty coffees, such as shade-grown gourmet varieties. The other, which is easier to scale, is varietals suited to new climate conditions. Atomo coffee being brewed.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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. The silver lining of COVID is that everyone is way more focused on supply chain security, she told me.

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Coffee as we know it is in danger. Can we breed a better cup?

Agritecture Blog

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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Chiquita Found Guilty of Murder Abroad, Other US Food Companies May Be Next

Civil Eats

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. food corporations have subsidiaries or parts of their supply chain associated with ongoing human rights abuses.

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Look What Nicola Twilley Found in the Fridge

Civil Eats

What exactly is the cold supply chain? So, the cheeseburger couldn’t have existed without our refrigerated supply chain, and they didn’t; the earliest records are from the 1920s. The Biden administration is investing in developing a more resilient meat supply chain , for example, largely by decentralizing the industry.