The New American Farmer

Oct 16, 2013 • Commons Alliance, Food Systems and Security, Land Access Strategies, Sustainable Farming • By Agrarian Trust

A research paper from the Transnational Institute draws on ethnographic research conducted in the Central Coast of California and the Northern Neck of Virginia, where a significant number of Mexican farmworkers are in the process of transitioning to small-scale family-run farm owner/operators, despite race and ethnicity based discrimination. Although they attempt to succeed as small-scale, […]