The rise of women farmers and sustainable agriculture /

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A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs desp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sachs, Carolyn E., 1950- (Autor), Barbercheck, Mary (Autor), Brasier, Kathy (Autor), Kiernan, Nancy Ellen (Autor), Terman, Anna Rachel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement.
Temas:
Women farmers > United States.
Sustainable agriculture > United States.
Agricultrices > États-Unis.
Agriculture durable > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Sustainable agriculture
Women farmers
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A new crop: women farmers in a shifting agriculture
  • Tilling the soil for change: claiming the farmer identity
  • Sowing the seeds of change: innovative paths to land, labor and capital
  • Reaping a new harvest: women farmers re-defining agriculture, community, and sustainability
  • Constructing a new table: women farmers negotiate agriculture institutions and organizations, creating new agricultural networks
  • From the ground up: a feminist agrifood systems theory.

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