#plantations — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plantations, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/687375/ Mixed outcomes seen for Malaysian palm oil industry #Business #commodity #CPO #Economy #Éire #IE #Ireland #Oil #Palm #Plantations
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"We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."
– Corine Pelluchon
#factoryFarms #farms #ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes
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Harvesting fruit and vegetables 'in the middle of nowhere': The Pacific Islander farm workers scheme
"With about 30,000 PALM workers in Australia as of October, that equates to about 30 deaths per 100,000 people — more than six times the national average of 4.8 per 100,000."
"Back home, I usually drive for no more than 30 minutes before reaching my destination. Here, I'd drive for hours... after working 12-hour shifts." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/palm-workers-urged-to-obey-australian-driving-laws-/104730954"Two Pacific Islander farm workers dead" >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/manjimup-fatal-crash-pacific-farm-workers/106636166
#PALM #workers #food #farms #work #AgriculturalIndustry #SettlerSociety #roads #TyrannyOfDistance #transport #rural #cars #Australia #exploitation #plantations #MobilityDesign #WideOpenSpaces #FossilFuel #FoodMiles
Image: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939 -
A yearning for the idyllic forest scene and cellulose factories
When they want to ‘get away from it all’ and ‘go for a drive’ through nature, the idyllic forest scene, they are in denial that the romantic craving for the bush turns out to be industrial plantations.
“Nature ... is a planned product of the forestry industry, a purely wisely placed storehouse for cellulose production, which is readily apparent.”
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, 1930https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities
#forests #forestryCorporation #forestry #CelluloseFactories #LoggingIndustry #landscapes #TheBush #plantations #monoculture #RawMaterials #extractivism #biodiversity #nature #book #literature -
Hype for the Future 62WFP: Plantation of West Forks, Maine
Introduction West Forks is a plantation in Somerset County, Maine, and one of only three mainland plantations in the State to lack the name “Plantation,” the others being The Forks and Grand Lake Stream. While Monhegan and Matinicus Isle are also plantations, these are island plantations in which the use of the term “Plantation” is less necessary and more implied. Lodging The Inn By the River is a predominantly rustic place to stay within the State of Maine. Located opposite Route […] -
Pesticide spray drift from intensive horticulture on the the mid-north coast NSW -
Discontent in the region.Home owners, dairy and beef producers among those concerned about how pesticide use affects their land as well as water quality on the mid-north coast
“Between 2001 and 2016 blueberry farming expanded 400% – mainly around the Coffs Harbour region.”
“This monitoring showed the continued detection of pesticides in most waterways sampled, highlighting the need for ongoing monitoring in the region.”
“Monitoring in the Nambucca valley by the EPA has detected three different pesticides in low levels in three creeks, suggesting water quality in the area is not being impacted by excessive amounts of pesticides.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/09/blueberry-farms-nsw-north-coast-rapid-expansion-development-pesticides
#Pesticides #food #beef #diary #prawns #blueberries #plantations #monoculture #rivers #water #export #runoff #pollution #neonicotinoids #imidacloprid #dimethoate #SprayDrift #CoffsHarbour #Macksville #Nambucca #Woolgoolga #conflict #violence #EPA #regulation #horticulture #industry #tourism #PeoplesHomes #TankWater #governance #MidNorthCoast #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #extractivism -
"... Poor pesticide spraying practices in the Nambucca Valley and Coffs Harbour regions...Chemical banned by European Union still used in Australia."
When you drive from Nambucca Valley to the Coffs Harbour regions you can see giant white plastic nets enclosing blueberries, raspberries and blackberries plantations. There are toxic chemicals on some berries, the water and the area.
"Banned chemical thiometon detected in berries sold at supermarkets."
"Blueberry farming has boomed in NSW, including in the Nambucca Valley, as minimal red tape is required to set up. Blueberry farms can be started without formal registration or oversight, making it hard for authorities to track pesticide use. Since January 2022, the EPA has prosecuted 21 pesticide-related incidents across a range of crops in local courts across NSW... The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) announced a review into the use of dimethoate on blueberries, raspberries and blackberries."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/pesticide-review-thiometon-dimethoate-blueberries-raspberries/105701674
#food #regulation #toxins #pesticide #water #BerryIndustry #EPA #APVMA #governance #fruits #blueberries #NSW #plantations #MidNorthCoast #nambucca #CoffsHarbour #pollution #sprayDrift #dimethoate #thiometon #neurotoxins -
Logging NSW mid-north coast biodiversity in the plantationocene ( The Great Koala National Park )
'The NSW government has imposed a temporary moratorium on timber harvesting within the boundary from Monday, but harvesting in plantations will continue."
"Koalas on track to be extinct in the wild across NSW by 2050."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/great-koala-national-park-to-go-ahead-on-nsw-mid-north-coast/105743430
#biodiversity #Plantationocene #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #koalas #gliders #Gumbaynggirr #Dunghutti #NSWLogging #GaggingSci #plantations -
CW: Histoire de la consommation de sucre 🧶
La consommation de sucre remonte à environ 8 000 avant J.-C. en Nouvelle-Guinée, où les populations autochtones ont domestiqué pour la première fois la canne à sucre en sélectionnant la variété Saccharum robustum. Depuis la Nouvelle-Guinée, la culture de la canne à sucre s'est répandue dans toute l'Asie du Sud-Est, en Chine et en Inde grâce aux commerçants maritimes. La technique de raffinage chimique du sucre est apparue pour la première fois en Inde il y a environ 2 500 ans, et ce savoir s'est répandu vers la Chine, l'Iran et les premiers mondes islamiques.
« Au XIVe siècle, Chypre et la Sicile étaient devenues d'importantes productrices de sucre pour les Européens. Ce succès a encouragé certains riches à étendre l'industrie sucrière aux îles de l'Atlantique et aux Amériques. À [la fin du XVIe siècle], des quantités croissantes de sucre étaient importées des plantations sucrières ("engenhos") du Brésil. Ces engenhos exigeaient le travail forcé des peuples autochtones et, de plus en plus, des esclaves africain·es, qui travaillaient dans des conditions épouvantables pour broyer la canne à sucre, en extraire le jus et le faire bouillir à haute température afin de produire de la mélasse, qui était ensuite expédiée vers l'Europe dans de grands tonneaux appelés "hogsheads". Les débuts de l'industrie sucrière mondiale constituent une partie importante de l'histoire des débuts de la traite transatlantique des esclaves. »
Source en anglais : https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/sugar/
La suite de l'histoire est ailleurs dans la même pelote : https://kolektiva.social/@estelle/111958986175027764
La pelote en anglais : https://techhub.social/@estelle/114495552341902293
#technique #technoCritique #sucre #accaparementDesTerres #racialisation #cultureDuViol #racismeSystémique #capitalisme #suprémacismeBlanc #histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #Angleterre #RoyaumeUni #GrandeBretagne #Bristol #Liverpool #Londres #extractivisme #accaparement #WestIndies #Caraïbes #carribbean #plantations #Antilles #Caraïbes #Caraïbe #NouveauMonde #Jamaïque #Cuba #Guadeloupe #Martinique #Hispaniola #Haïti #SaintDomingue #PortoRico #Barbade #Amérique #agriculture #Nantes #Bordeaux #lectureDécoloniale #définitionDécoloniale #sucré #bonbons #gastronomie #desserts #consommation
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Koalas face death, attacks and mass starvation from monoculture plantations
Cost-effective management techniques for Australian wildlife"...Displaced animals were sometimes still up in trees that were felled and ended up with broken bones, or were orphaned babies left behind. Others were attacked by cows or dogs."
"A 2023 study of reported wild koala deaths in south-east Queensland found vehicles were responsible for about half (1,431) of all fatalities."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/11/koalas-face-death-attacks-and-starvation-as-blue-gums-chopped-down-in-victoria
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #harm #pets #Livestock #roads #vehicles #RoadTrauma #KillingZones #plantations #monoculture #extractivism #governance #Australia #extinction -
Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging?
"The Greens have dropped their demand for a climate trigger to be incorporated in the government’s stalled Nature Positive legislation, indicating they are now prepared to pass the bills in return for a Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging alone."
“Closing the legal loopholes that allow large-scale native forest logging and land clearing to go unassessed will have tangible impacts for the protection of critical habitat in Tasmania, NSW, and northern Australia, where deforestation is out of control."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/18/greens-drop-climate-trigger-demand-in-attempt-to-restart-nature-positive-talks-with-labor
#loggingIndustry #NSW #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis #NaturePositive #NatureNegative #plantations #deforestation #ResourceFrontiers #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #extractivism -
#RIP #HarryBelafonte it’s really lovely reading all the tributes and memories from everyone here - a brilliant #Singer #Actor #Author and lifelong #CivilRights activist, he meant so much to so many. I first heard the #BananaBoatSong at a NYE party as a 9y old - my first exhilerating music experience. Been thinking about it again recently researching #Plantations and #SupplyChains - all that hard labour every day, and the role of music in it. #Jamaica #RacialCapitalism
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https://archive.org/details/west-indies-patterns
The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 by David Watts
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#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #geography, #historicalgeography, #genocide, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #antiblackness, #translatlanticslavetrade, #whitesupremacy, #imperialism, #colonialism, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #amerikas, #northamerika, #plantations, #plantationeconomy, #sugarplantations, #environmentalgeography, #slavesocieties, #ecologyThis magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted.