Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land

Hudson Bennett is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. Screening and Panel Host: Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, Moderated by Andrew Kahrl Panelists: Eternal Polk, P.J. Haynie, and Johane Domersant “Once land is gone, you can’t get it back.”—P.J. Haynie, farmer featured in the film and the panel….

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The Need for Improved Water Usage Practices in United States Agriculture

Hudson Bennett is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. What’s going on? The United States agriculture industry is wasting water at a crippling rate. Irrigation efficiency sits at around 60-70%, and domestic aquifers are being depleted at a rate significantly faster than they can recover. In other words, the…

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