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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. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

At least 28 species were new to science. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. .” When the museum’s team surveyed the region for three weeks in 2000, it tallied 1,600 species of plants, 71 species of mammals, and more than 500 species of birds.