{"id":559,"date":"2009-02-26T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-02-26T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:28:30","slug":"womens-farming-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/02\/26\/womens-farming-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"women&#8217;s farming revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by four4dots on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7798770@N07\/3183440915\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3478\/3183440915_a522908659_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Week 28 (42)\" \/><\/a>The<a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/environment\/2009\/02\/25\/women-lead-a-farming-revolution-in-iowa\/\"> Christian Science Monitor<\/a> reported on a new trend in Iowa where women are poised to &#8216;lead a farming revolution.&#8217; Reports indicate that as wives inherit their husbands&#8217; farmland, they emphasize conservation above maximizing yield and profits. Today in Iowa women own nearly half of the state&#8217;s farmland, but suffer from recurring problems when, &#8220;The men they hire to farm their land often don\u2019t treat it with the tender care they expect \u2013 and often won\u2019t listen when they complain about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Christian Science monitor provides a sociological perspective on the issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jean Eells, a sociologist who focuses on environmental education, has studied how Iowa\u2019s large share of older women who own farmland are faring in getting their land-conservation views heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a whole,\u201d says Ms. Eells, \u201cthese women have a strong view of land as community \u2013 as a source of food and water for animals, birds, as well as people \u2013 rather than just producing a commodity. But while that conservation ethic makes them natural allies for agricultural conservation programs, women often feel their views are out of sync [with state or federal programs].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partly it\u2019s because women don\u2019t know or use standard terminology to talk about land conservation, Eells says. Partly it\u2019s that agricultural system representatives tend to think and talk production \u2013 even when discussing conservation, she adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a woman brings up something about farming, and a man blusters authoritatively about it, women are socialized to just clam up,\u201d Eells says. \u201cSo to the extent that a woman landowner starts discussing conservation, there are a lot of reasons why this might not go well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/environment\/2009\/02\/25\/women-lead-a-farming-revolution-in-iowa\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor reported on a new trend in Iowa where women are poised to &#8216;lead a farming revolution.&#8217; Reports indicate that as wives inherit their husbands&#8217; farmland, they emphasize conservation above maximizing yield and profits. Today in Iowa women own nearly half of the state&#8217;s farmland, but suffer from recurring problems when, &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[65,39114,143,1109,76],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-environment","tag-gender","tag-labor","tag-land","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}