Abstract
Knowledge issues are a critical dimension in the politics of the sustainable agriculture movement. Recent research has examined how sustainable farming networks facilitate the creation and exchange of local knowledge about alternative practices and ideas. This article extends those analyses by exploring the role of social location in that knowledge creation and exchange process, based on field research in a sustainable farming network organized by and for women farmers. Different experiences in everyday life may create multiple and partial perspectives from which localknowledge for sustainability is generated and exchanged.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 251-257 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Society and Natural Resources |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 1997 |
Funding
Received 21 November 1995; accepted 11 October 1996. An earlier draft of this paper was presented at a 1995 conference on "Politics of Sustainable Agriculture" in Eugene, Oregon, USA. I greatly appreciate the time and knowledge that participants in this study shared with me. I also value the helpful comments on earlier versions of this article provided by Jack Kloppenburg, Lita Furby, and anonymous reviewers. For support of this research, I acknowledge the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and the Pew Scholars Program in Conservation and Environment. Address correspondence to Neva Hassanein, 85220 Florence Road, Eugene, OR 97405, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Keywords
- Local knowledge
- Sustainable agriculture movement
- Sustainable farming networks
- Women in agriculture