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Many of the Trump administration’s policies, from tariffs to immigration crackdowns, have negatively impacted farmers ...
It’s just as true for other Black farmers and cattle ranchers: They are a dwindling lot, living on less land and battered by financial hardships and uncertainties that place a heavier burden on them ...
White farmers' suits blocked a USDA program and led to a race-neutral approach. Politics Black farmers worry new approach on 'race neutral' lending leaves them in the shadows ...
More than nine of 10 farm owners in the U.S. are white. A movement to change that is selling farming to people of color as a healthy lifestyle — and a way to fight discrimination.
After white farmers claimed they were discriminated against in a federal lending program, farmers of color once again put at a disadvantage. “The U.S. Agriculture Department has a rocky history ...
White and Black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe’s land grabs. How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left Black Zimbabweans in poverty.
White people own 98% of rural land. Young Black farmers want to reclaim their share. Black farmers make up just 1.4 percent of American farm owners.
In 1920, black farmers represented 14 percent of U.S. farmers; today, they make up less than 2 percent.
African Americans have lost millions of acres of farmland across the South during the last century, in a trend propelled by economic forces, racism and white economic and political power. Most of ...
Daunting barriers for Black farmers. Black farmers in the United States have historically faced massive social and institutional barriers to owning and operating farms, according to a 2003 U.S ...
It now supports 12 859 black subsistence farmers - half of whom are women - from nine offices nationwide, and it has already created 171 new black commercial farmers producing 250 tons or more of ...