At enrollment, 7% of the women and 57% of their partners worked at banana plantations, and 1% of the women and 6% of their partners performed other agricultural work (Table 2).
Because Nathaniel Sylvester and his business partners, who had sugar plantations in Barbados, raised sheep on Shelter Island for their wool and for mutton to pickle and ship to Barbados as food for their slaves.
While the partners say the plantation will yield jobs for impoverished workers in Cameroon and bolster global food security, environmentalists and others argue that the rain forest is crucial to the ecosystem and to countering global warming, and that locals will not necessarily benefit long-term.
Dole Food Company and a local partner, Letsgrow, recently established the plantation on 2200 acres of scrubland near Kandakadu, a town on the edge of Somawathiya National Park in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged North Central Province.
Rabbi Myron Berman, in his history of Jews in Richmond, describes the attitude of antebellum white Southerners toward Jews: In the early 1840s, Benjamin was wealthy from his law practice and, with a partner, bought a sugar cane plantation, Bellechasse.
His partner was unable to maintain the plantation because of a drought and then disappeared with the business's remaining money.
There is a To Kill a Mockingbird-esque subplot, in which plantation heir Ian McLeod defends his business partner in court.
Her father owned a sugar-refining business; his partner, Bradish Johnson, held slaves on a Louisiana sugar plantation and did not have a reputation for kindness.
"The outdoors and nature are a magnet for our residents," said Peter Pollak, a partner with Dolan, Pollak & Schram, which built the Ford Plantation, a development near Savannah, Ga., that includes 1,000 acres of open space.
As an example of what she called smart aid, Greening cited DfID's recent co-investments with commercial and not-for-profit partners in four business projects, including new tea and rice plantations, in Tanzania.
