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1. Reprinted with permission from:Proceedings of the 42nd Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC), Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, December 2–4, 1984. The authors appreciate the help of the farmers interviewed in Gadsden County, Extension Director John Russell, and Dr. Henry Grant, as well as funding provided by National Science Foundation grant BNS-8218894.
Christina H. Gladwin is an Associate Professor in the Food and Resource Economics Department and an Affiliate Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Florida. Her specialty is decision-making of small farmers and marketeers. She has field experience in Ghana, Mexico, Guatemala, and Florida. In Florida, her research includes studies of women farmers and agribusiness women, gardening, beef cattle, and changing structure of agriculture. She has published in theAmerican Journal of Agriculture Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, American Ethnologist, andHuman Organization.
Robert Zabawa is a research anthropologist at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. He has been associated with the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida since 1981. The research presented here is based on a year and a half of fieldwork in Gadsden County, Florida. This work is part of a larger research effort concerning the changing structure of American agriculture and how farmers at the local level are adjusting to national and international forces of change.
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Gladwin, C.H., Zabawa, R. Survival strategies of small, part-time, black Florida farmers: A response to structural change. Agric Hum Values 2, 49–56 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530587
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