Böcker av Carolyn E. Sachs

This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members.

This book provides a cutting-edge assessment of the field of gender and agriculture, with contributions from both leading scholars and up and coming academics as well as policymakers and practitioners. It covers major theoretical issues as well as critical empirical shifts in gender and agriculture.

With increasing concern for global environmental health and the future of our existing ecosystems, new approaches to environmental problems are being explored. This book contains work from leading feminist voices in the discussion who are interested in men's and women's different responses.

In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs despite the barriers they encountered in agricultural institutions, farming communities, and even their own families. Their strategies for obtaining land and labour and developing successful businesses offer models for other aspiring farmers.