Lloyd Wright isn’t shocked that the United States Department of Agriculture is reversing a 35-year-old policy meant to help ...

Trump’s rollback is another example of the federal government’s lackluster efforts at giving Black farmers a boost in recent ...

In the United States, Black farmers are an underrepresented group. According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, 35,470 farms are Black-owned, out of more than 2 million total farms. The majority of ...

Black Americans were, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major force in agriculture. Since then, policies have systematically pushed Black farmers out of American agriculture, and ...

Black farmers account for only 1.4% of all U.S. farmers, farm only 0.5% of the country’s farmland and generate only 0.4% of total U.S. agricultural sales every year.

A History of discriminatory practices against Black farmers Abrams was one of six plaintiffs in the landmark Pigford v. Glickman, a class action lawsuit between the U.S. department of agriculture ...

The Census of Agriculture recently conducted by the USDA shows that only one in 100 Black farmers own less than 5 million acres. “Systemic barriers are preventing black farmers from producing ...

The Department of Agriculture has an additional goal: improving service to Black and other underserved farmers, like Sharifa Tomlinson, who runs Arrowrock Farm in Riverside, Ohio.

The Hills are part of a community of Black farmers in the Rocky Mount area who are doing atypical work to breathe life back into Black agriculture in the South. Friends of theirs, such as Dallas ...

Urban agriculture presents a unique opportunity to cultivate a new generation of Black farmers deeply rooted in the communities they serve.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that farmers who identified as Black or Black in combination with another race accounted for just 1.4 percent of the approximately 3.4 million ...