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  1. The knowledge cultures of changing farming practices in a water town of the Southern Yangtze Valley, China.Pingyang Liu, Neil Ravenscroft, Marie K. Harder & Xingyi Dai - 2016 - Agriculture and Human Values 33 (2):291-304.
    This paper presents an oral history of farming in the Southern Yangtze Valley in China, covering the period from pre-liberation to recent market liberalization. Using the stories and observations of 31 elderly residents of a small water town, the paper describes the hard labor of traditional farming practices and the acquiescence of many when, post-liberation, they could leave farming for better-paid factory work. However, in a departure from conventional analyses, these oral histories suggest that the co-dependency culture of traditional farming (...)
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  • How knowledge deficit interventions fail to resolve beginning farmer challenges.Adam Calo - 2018 - Agriculture and Human Values 35 (2):367-381.
    Beginning farmer initiatives like the USDA’s Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, farm incubators, and small-scale marketing innovations offer new entrant farmers agricultural training, marketing and business assistance, and farmland loans. These programs align with alternative food movement goals to revitalize the anemic U.S. small farm sector and repopulate landscapes with socially and environmentally diversified farms. Yet even as these initiatives seek to support prospective farmers with tools for success through a knowledge dissemination model, they remain mostly individualistic and entrepreneurial (...)
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