Building Relationships and Resilience: The Effect of Extension Programs on Women in Agriculture
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https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.v66i4.3178Keywords:
Extension, Women in Agriculture, Resilience, relationshipsAbstract
Improving the resilience of women is critical to the resilience of agriculture and rural communities. Women have demonstrated a unique ability to drive change and adaptation in agriculture. They play a leading role in introducing new practices, connecting farms and ranches with social resources, and facilitating farm and ranch succession. Women make unique contributions to the recovery of rural communities after a disaster, including bringing people together and building on a community's strengths. However, there is little research on the resilience of women in agriculture in the United States. This study describes the relationship between participation in relationship-building programs facilitated by Cooperative Extension and the individual resilience of women in agriculture in the United States. The results show an association between participation in certain relationship-building programs and increases in the level of external resilience factors among women in agriculture in the U.S. Given this association, program designers should consider enhancements to the resilience-building potential of their programs and funding agencies should broaden their perspective on the types of programs that could positively impact agriculture and rural communities.
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