TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
TI  - New American farmerL
T2  - Food, health and the environment
SN  - 9780262537834
U1  - 305.963 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Hispanic American farmers
KW  - Agriculture - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -