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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

Black farmers have been subject to other systematic barriers such as longer processing times for operation loan applications and higher loan default rates, and they have been denied access to information and resources. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming.

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

Civil Eats

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 Its like full circle.

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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

Black farmers have been subject to other systematic barriers such as longer processing times for operation loan applications and higher loan default rates, and they have been denied access to information and resources. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming.

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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

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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Q&A: A New Book Tells the Story of Food, From the Civil Rights Movement to Now

Daily Yonder

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. Each Monday, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Processing… Success!

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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

Farming, though, “is a long-term process,” says Brown, as is stewarding the earth, so moving his operations to Ujamaa’s new land will allow him to “think a few seasons ahead.” Hawkins, Brown, and Hudson also hope to create a safe space for the BIPOC community, which, Hawkins notes, is often a rarity in rural areas.