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The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment) about?

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 immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In The New American Farmer, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries—including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor—most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States. Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunitie

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Author

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262355841

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Agriculture, Science