The New American Farmer Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability

• Autor principal: Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
• Colección: Food, Health, and the Environment
• Materias: Environmental policy & protocols; Social discrimination & inequality; food justice; race and food; sustainable farming; sustainable agriculture; sustainable food; alternative agriculture; alternative food; immigrant agriculture; food sovereignty; farmworkers; farmworker justice; immigration and food; slow food; eco-food; just food; food culture; immigrant rights; Mexican immigration; Latino; latinx; Latinoa agriculture; Latinoa farmers; Latinx agriculture; Mexican foodways; Mexican agriculture; new farmers; beginning farmers; organic farming; organic farmers; agrifood systems; food and society; agricultural ladder; agroecology; agricultural institutions; farmers markets; USDA; agricultural extension; agricultural technical support; Agricultural Census; family labor; farm labor; food labor; agricultural labor; land reform; small-scale farming; diverse farming; farm scale; family farming; food security; foodways; farmers of color; racism
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are...