Africa Plantations

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Illegal migrants pay over US$8,000 for reaching Europe

Blitz 30 Mar 2023

In Sub-Saharan Africa, children have been trafficked to work on plantations, in mines and quarries, on farms, as vendors in markets and on the streets ... Child trafficking for forced labor has also been reported on South American plantations ... Smuggling of illegal migrants from North Africa.

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How our founders' links to slavery change the Guardian today | Katharine Viner

The Guardian 28 Mar 2023

... founding editor, John Edward Taylor, derived much of his wealth from Manchester’s cotton industry, an industry that relied on firms such as Taylor’s trading with cotton plantations in the Americas that had enslaved millions of Black people forcibly transported from Africa.

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Waning funds threaten Gandhi’s South African legacy

Mail Guardian South Africa 26 Mar 2023

In the long odyssey of Mahatma Gandhi’s life, his 21 years in South Africa stand out ... Hundreds of thousands of Indians came to South Africa during British colonial rule in the 19th century to work on sugarcane plantations on the east coast. Gandhi landed in South Africa in his early 20s to represent an Indian businessman in a legal matter.

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Can you guess the iconic TV show from just one image?

North Shore News 26 Mar 2023

While there used to be a larger gap in quality, budget, and actors when it came to television vs ... "The Lord of the Rings ... "Roots" is a historical epic following the trauma and trials of a family lineage, starting with the brutal capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa as a young man forced to work on a Virginia plantation in 1767 ... .

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Oil palm import hits US$1.17bn in 3yrs

B & FT Online 22 Mar 2023

Though Wilmar Africa and the Benson Oil Palm Plantation refine and produce crude palm, these two companies export a chunk of their products to the Sahel regions and other parts in the sub-region ... Data from the OPDAG shows that Africa consumes 13 percent of global palm oil but produces just about four percent of the commodity.

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Editorial: What happened to oil palm focus?!

B & FT Online 22 Mar 2023

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South African market feels effects of flooded banana fields in Mozambique

Fresh Plaza 18 Mar 2023

However extensive flooding three to four weeks ago in Maputo Province, southern Mozambique, and around Komatipoort in northeastern South Africa, brought significantly damaged banana plantations and infrastructure such as pump houses, pumps and residences.

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Opinion: Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry

North Shore News 17 Mar 2023

Western Europe’s appetite for “sweetness” helped fuel the horrific transatlantic trade of enslaved peoples, in which at least 15 million enslaved people from Africa were forced to work on plantations in the Americas ... Sugar plantations ... Sugar also ventured into sugar cane plantation ownership.

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With the exception of Chile and South Africa, global citrus producers projected to produce less ...

Fresh Plaza 17 Mar 2023

“South African production will increase by 6%, to 670,000 tons, due to sufficient rainfall and the entry into full production of new plantations.” In fact, Carvajal stated, South Africa is expected to harvest 1.7 million tons of oranges in the 2022/23 season, achieving a record for the third consecutive year.

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'Roots' (1977)

Magic Valley 15 Mar 2023

"Roots" is a historical epic following the trauma and trials of a family lineage, starting with the brutal capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa as a young man forced to work on a Virginia plantation in 1767. The original series ... .

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Rising global temperatures will reduce coffee production, warns scientists

Live Mint 12 Mar 2023

A new research has shown that climate obstacles that reduce the production of coffee has become more frequent than ever, thereby affecting coffee plantation in Africa and Asia. The study, published in the journal PLOS Climate, found that the frequency of “climate hazards” – ...

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Home, tranquility and happiness in Pineville

The Post and Courier 01 Mar 2023

We look to our fathers and grandfathers for lessons of wisdom and piety ... ... John C ... Many a northerner would find this proof; that the slave holder of the Lowcountry of South Carolina was not always a brute, and that “Saby” was an infinitely happier and better man on Bluford Plantation, than he would have been had he remained in Africa. Frederick A ... ... .

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'Mountains More Ancient' sheds light on Indonesian slavery in South Africa

The Jakarta Post 23 Feb 2023

... him, thinking that he would be sent to a plantation in Sumatra, but instead, they find themselves in Africa with no way back home.

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He speaks 7 languages. Here's how he helps preserve justice in Louisiana's courts.

The Advocate 23 Feb 2023

One of Britton's descendants, according to ancestry reports, was an African-born man who may have been a conquistador in northern Africa before being purchased as a slave by some of his other ancestors. The Turnbull family the Rosedown Plantation in West Feliciana Parish and taught each of their children several languages at home.

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Longenecker: Banned in Florida

Times Argus 22 Feb 2023

On a spring day a few years ago, I visited Kingsley Plantation, run by the National Park Service on the outskirts of Jacksonville, Florida ... Florida was not part of the United States until 1821, so this plantation operated under Spanish rule in its early years ... This plantation is an example of the conundrum of slavery and African American history.