TY - JOUR
T1 - "Our market is our community"
T2 - Women farmers and civic agriculture in Pennsylvania, USA
AU - Trauger, Amy
AU - Sachs, Carolyn
AU - Barbercheck, Mary
AU - Brasier, Kathy
AU - Kiernan, Nancy Ellen
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank United States Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education programs for the financial support of WAgN; all the members of PA-WAgN; the members of the PA-WAgN working group, Jill Findeis, Ann Stone, Linda Moist; and especially the women farmers who participated in this study.
Funding Information:
Nancy Ellen Kiernan is a program evaluator in the Office of the Director of The Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Extension. She works with field-based educators and faculty to implement program evaluations. Dr. Kiernan has evaluated a wide variety of programs as has publishes on results and evaluation issues in Evaluation Review, Evaluation and Program Planning, American Journal of Evaluation, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Journal of Dairy Science, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, and Journal of Extension. Dr. Kiernan’s work has been recognized with the National Association of Family and Consumer Sciences’ (NEAFCS) award for Program Excellence through Research; the National Institute for Farm Safety’s award for Research Leading to Prevention Programs; Penn State’s Commission for Women award for Achieving Women for innovative evaluations; and the American Evaluation Association (AEA) award for Sustained Excellence in Extension Evaluation. Her program of research focuses on the problems of implementing evaluation.
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - Civic agriculture is characterized in the literature as complementary and embedded social and economic strategies that provide economic benefits to farmers at the same time that they ostensibly provide socio-environmental benefits to the community. This paper presents some ways in which women farmers practice civic agriculture. The data come from in-depth interviews with women practicing agriculture in Pennsylvania. Some of the strategies women farmers use to make a living from the farm have little to do with food or agricultural products, but all are a product of the process of providing a living for farmers while meeting a social need in the community. Most of the women in our study also connect their business practices to their gender identity in rural and agricultural communities, and redefine successful farming in opposition to traditional views of economic rationality.
AB - Civic agriculture is characterized in the literature as complementary and embedded social and economic strategies that provide economic benefits to farmers at the same time that they ostensibly provide socio-environmental benefits to the community. This paper presents some ways in which women farmers practice civic agriculture. The data come from in-depth interviews with women practicing agriculture in Pennsylvania. Some of the strategies women farmers use to make a living from the farm have little to do with food or agricultural products, but all are a product of the process of providing a living for farmers while meeting a social need in the community. Most of the women in our study also connect their business practices to their gender identity in rural and agricultural communities, and redefine successful farming in opposition to traditional views of economic rationality.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10460-008-9190-5
DO - 10.1007/s10460-008-9190-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:75849123101
SN - 0889-048X
VL - 27
SP - 43
EP - 55
JO - Agriculture and Human Values
JF - Agriculture and Human Values
IS - 1
ER -