The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

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.

Sharecropping 87

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 87

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Photo credit: Oisakhose Aghomo Forging Pathways to Land Access for BIPOC Farmers in Georgia Emerging tools are helping young and beginning BIPOC farmers find farmland and navigate the confusing legal process needed to acquire and manage it.

Food 124

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 124

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

But the process hasn’t always come easily. After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions. The process of extracting the fermentable sugars out of sweet potatoes is not an easy one.

Acre 95

Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 95

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. Claimants were supposed to receive payments soon after, but because of confusing paperwork and processing issues, very few did.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

Martice also sees farming as a healing practice that allows him to process generational trauma by taking back the act of farming as a resilient, freely-made choice. A stark contrast from the labor forced upon his ancestors through slavery and sharecropping. I really started to farm because it’s an act of resistance.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. Pollard now leases land not far from the processing plant in Marks. Grocery stores are scarce.

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. Processing… Success! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. In chapter one, we look at a federal food program that is dismantled and just taken away. You're on the list.

Food 81

Food Plantation Agriculture Agriculture 81