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Family Farms

January 13, 2025

New Co-op Financial Association for Southern Small Farmers

Focused on 12 Southeastern states, the new institution will offer low-interest loans and technical support to help farmers, landowners, cooperatives, and ag-based businesses start and grow operations.

July 1, 2021

Rethinking the Farming Economy

A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.

Citations

Luis Razeto Migliaro (2019).  Solidarity Economy Roads:  Chapter 9 - The Road of Women and the Family.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/story/solidarity-economy-roads-chapter-9

September 9, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

In this chapter Razeto uses the analysis of solidarity economy developed to this point to make sense of the family as an economic unit and form of collective organization, and understand the roles of women as its main protagonists. The disintegration of the traditional family under industrial capitalism, with the rise of wage labor outside the home, the erosion of domestic and community economic activity, the creation of the nuclear family, and the concomitant changes in gender roles and the division of labor are shown to have aggravated inequality and damaged core relations of human solidarity.