This Friday (3pm CT) PReP Rural will be sponsoring an event on "Exiting Plantation Economics". 

What does land access have to do with COVID-19? Agrobiodiversity keeps deadly pathogens from emerging in the first place. But such emergent biocontrol requires new models of production and a generation of diverse farmers with access to land they've largely been locked out of. 

Come join us for a conversation with Noah McDonald, a multi-generational Black farmer and researcher working at the Southeastern African American Farmers' Organic Network, and Carrie Freshour, a geographer studying food and ag labor in the South, racial capitalism, carceral geographies, and the Black radical tradition.

If you're interested in attending, please email PReP Rural's Laura Thomas ([log in to unmask]) and she'll ping you back an event link.

And please feel free to forward the attached poster. 

Cheers,
Rob Wallace
PReP organizer


Julie Cotton, M.S.
Academic Specialist, 
Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems
Dept. Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences

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