Andrew Flachs (Associate Professor of Anthropology with courtesy appointment in HLA) and graduate student colleagues recently published a paper in Outlook on Agriculture: Skilling and social reproduction. The paper is part of a special issue on farmer learning, and talks about the larger social and environmental contexts in which farmers learn.
Dr. Flachs and colleagues explore how agricultural skills are developed, maintained, and transformed through social and ecological processes. They examine how different agricultural systems – from plantations to small farms – shape farmers’ learning, knowledge, and ability to adapt.