🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484
"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."
"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."
The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming by Natasha Bowen
The growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing the way the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media, and yet, farmers of color are still largely left out of the picture. The Color of Food seeks to rectify this.
At the time of World War I, there were around 950,000 Black farmers who owned about 20 million acres of land. Today, there are fewer than 50,000 Black farmers, and just 25% of that land is in Black hands. Artist, activist and farmer Dail Chambers spoke to Capital B.'s Adam Mahoney about how she is working to regain a relationship with the land and help Black folk thrive.
What Your Food Ate How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health
Are you really what you eat?
David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction – and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.