In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a
substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field. The book begins …

There is evidence that cover crops can bring both environmental and yield benefits to a farm
operation, yet according to the USDA's Census of Agriculture, in 2012 less than 5% of the …

Outside of Indigenous studies, sociologists tend to treat land in the United States as
governed exclusively by an entrenched private-property regime: Land is a commodity and …

While non-operating agricultural and absentee forest landowners across the US and Europe
are an important group of landowners, our understanding of them remains relatively limited …

Farmers' decisions about adopting conservation practices are inherently dynamic, affected
by changes in environmental, economic, and social conditions, including interactions with …

Agricultural conservation programs often focus on farm operators when promoting
conservation practices. However, much of US farmland is owned by landowners not directly …

In nine of the last 10 years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported
that the average funds generated on-farm for farm operators to meet living expenses and …

Abstract In the United States, 58% of the 11 million family forest ownerships with at least 10
acres of forestland have at least one female owner. Within the single-owner population of …

Gendered expectations are central to the continuation of agricultural land tenure systems
that concentrate land and power in the control of men. These expectations about how land …

Women own or co-own approximately half of the farmland in Iowa, United States, yet
researchers are only beginning to study these landowners' social relationships in relation to …