The rise of women farmers and sustainable agriculture

The rise of women farmers and sustainable agriculture / Carolyn E. Sachs, Mary E. Barbercheck, Kathryn J. Brasier, Nancy Ellen Kiernan, and Anna Rachel Terman.

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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Main Authors: Sachs, Carolyn E., 1950- (Author), Barbercheck, Mary (Author), Brasier, Kathy (Author), Kiernan, Nancy Ellen (Author), Terman, Anna Rachel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement.
Subjects:
Women farmers > United States.
Sustainable agriculture > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Sustainable agriculture
Women farmers
United States
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