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Black Food Sovereignty: The Land Loss and the Recovery

In 1920, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Over the intervening decades, that number fell below two percent, with a corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land. This land loss — the product of USDA discrimination, tax sales exploitation, violence, and systematic exclusion from the credit systems that allowed white farmers to consolidate — is the largest peaceful dispossession of land in American history. The contemporary Black food sovereignty movement is the organised response.

Overview

The Black land loss story and the contemporary recovery movement.

Source

AFRICA TO AMERICA — WA4: THE DEEPEST DIVE

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

Indigenous food sovereignty movement (same land-food connection — different specific history of land theft), Palestinian food and land sovereignty (same land dispossession through political violence —