Plantation Supply Chain Technology 
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. The silver lining of COVID is that everyone is way more focused on supply chain security, she told me.
Civil Eats
MAY 21, 2024
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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Agritecture Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2022
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.
Civil Eats
JUNE 24, 2024
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. Conversely, reimagining and reinventing cold technology offers a lot of hope for building a better food system. Paris Climate Agreement.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Throughout, carbon-footprint bar charts show the multiple emission sources for each food, conveying the impact of an entire supply chain at a glance. Each new generation inherited the farm and faced many hardships, from icy winters to the Farm Crisis of the 1980s and rapid changes in technology.
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.
The Equation
MAY 14, 2024
The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. The current state of our food and faming system was born from the plantation system in the antebellum South that displaced and stole land from Indigenous nations and exploited Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.
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