Table of Contents Carolyn E. Sachs; Mary E. Barbercheck; Kathryn J. Brasier ...
The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture,
05/2016
Book Chapter
Sowing the Seeds of Change Carolyn E. Sachs; Mary E. Barbercheck; Kathryn J. Brasier ...
The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture,
05/2016
Book Chapter
Land, labor, and capital are requisite to farming, and all three are contingent on the others when it comes to agriculture. A farmer needs capital to purchase or rent land and to pay workers, but ...capital is difficult to acquire without having fertile land and competent labor to meet production demands. Obtaining access to this agricultural trifecta can provide serious challenges for women farmers. The major route of entry into farming comes through family farms that are passed from one generation to the next—usually from father to son. “Farmers are farmers’ sons” as a result of gender disparities in
Using a simple and inexpensive but carefully designed postcard survey, we evaluated The Woodlander, a one-page, monthly newsletter written for private nonindustrial forestland owners in three ...northwestern Pennsylvania counties.
