In California, a native people fight to recover their stolen waters
May 16, 2024 · For the Nüümü, the water war started in the 1800s, with the arrival of white people in their homeland. At the time, the valley was lush and green, its river banks lined with willows and cottonwoods. The occasional fur trapper and mountain man quickly gave way to a steady stream of sheep and cattle ranchers, and by the 1860s, a community of …
Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense
Feb 15, 2024 · In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., parked it in the middle of the pond in an area called Constitution Gardens, and began a two-day standoff, during which he threatened to blow himself up and made references to another standoff at Ruby Ridge.The American flag above his …
At Colorado meatpacking plant, a vulnerable workforce braces for …
Jan 13, 2025 · President Donald Trump returns to the White House and has vowed to deport millions of immigrants and refugees as one of his first tasks. If he does, it will have a major impact on the meatpacking industry’s workforce—and on the price of our food. Ted Genoways, a FERN senior editor and Harvest ...
Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the ...
Dec 31, 2024 · In April, Michael Spoor invited me to spend a few days visiting Ocho Sur’s plantations and the surrounding communities. The company was losing buyers left and right. That month, PepsiCo, which had used Ocho Sur palm oil in its Cheetos and Doritos, became the latest global brand to be named in the media over the historic deforestation.Spoor was eager to tell his side of the story.
Transforming the Delta | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 20, 2024 · In the last third of the nineteenth century, the Delta was a place people flocked to, a land of opportunity for Blacks and whites alike. Cotton farming had begun before the Civil War, using enslaved labor, but only near the riverbanks. At the end of the war, 90 percent of the Delta in Mississippi remained forested, swampy wilderness—an unclaimed frontier.
Today’s quick hits, October 18, 2024
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Why America’s food-security crisis is a water-security crisis, too
Accurate data are essential to closing the water gap because food insecurity increases the probability of water insecurity. In a study published last July in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Young, Rosinger and a third co-author tracked 13 years’ worth of tap water avoidance among more than 31,000 U.S. residents.They found that …
Switchyard Food Issue - Food and Environment Reporting Network
The print edition of Switchyard includes an opening essay by its editor, Ted Genoways, a longtime FERN contributor and a fitting partner for this project. It is worth quoting, to describe the ambitions of this issue and because it articulates so much of what we hope to do at FERN: “[T]o gather a diverse group of writers … who could collectively look back at the effects of recent years but ...
Tyson plant closures left contract chicken farmers with debt and ...
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