Development Sociology

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Farming out of place: Transnational family farmers, flexible farming, and the rupture of rural life in Bahia, Brazil

Ofstehage, Andrew (American Ethnologist, 2018)

North American soybean farmers have responded to farmland inaccessibility in the US Midwest by purchasing and operating large soybean farms in western Bahia, Brazil. They have turned to “flexible farming” and flexible ...
A Conversation with Frank Young

Young, Frank; Erickson, Gene (Internet-First University Press, 2015-09-08)

Frank Young describes his professional journey in rural sociology, plus his active, extended period as a professor emeritus.