Shoshanah M Inwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 2047322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shoshanah M Inwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shoshanah M |
| FAMILY NAME | Inwood |
| SIGNATURE | INWOOD S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0941-0394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Finding our way through the fog: Embedding Social Infrastructure in Food System Resilience
In this commentary we focus on the significance of social infrastructure for food system resilience by drawing on the insights and experiences from our positions as emergency management practitioners and land-grant university social science food system researchers working with emergency management agencies, food system and food security organizations. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the years since, as a group we have worked in …
Finding our place in public scholarship
In her 2024 Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) Presidential Adress, Shoshanah Inwood reflects on our role as researchers, teachers, practitioners, and as engaged citizens in public scholarship, and the role of our Agriculture Food and Human Values Society in public scholarship. Inwood first defines public scholarship and shares how her research examining the connections between farm viability and access to affordable quality health …
Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health
Due to high-stress agricultural working environments, farmers are at high risk for mental illness, including anxiety, depression, and suicide. These challenges are exacerbated by rural settings with limited access to mental healthcare and pervasive mental health stigma. An area of increasing interest is how climate change impacts, such as drought, extreme temperatures, and changing seasons, impact farmer mental health and well-being. Utilizing a …
New insights on the role of the farm household-farm operation interface in family farm persistence and a call for future research
Children needs and childcare: An Illustration of How Underappreciated Social and Economic Needs Shape the Farm Enterprise
Farm households and the elusiveness of social sustainability: Contrasting the emotional registers of organic and conventional producers
Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming
Despite long-standing safety recommendations that non-working children be supervised off the worksite by an adult, little is known about farm families' ability to comply. We conducted a review of 92 documents and 36 key informant interviews in three U.S. states (Ohio, Vermont, and Wisconsin) to assess how farm service providers and farm organizations address the intersection of children and childcare with farm work and farm safety in programming.…
Medical economic vulnerability: A next step in expanding the farm resilience scholarship
In recent years, the long-standing questions of why, how, and which farm families continue farming in the face of ongoing changes have increasingly been studied through the resilience lens. While this body of work is providing updated and novel insights, two limitations, a focus on macro-level challenges faced by the farm operation and a mismatch between the scale of challenges and resilience measures, likely limit our understanding of the factor…
Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households' social needs, social policy and the farm business
Rural studies scholars have highlighted the important role farm households play in propping up the farm business along the life course. Yet, little is known about how challenges facing farm households impact the farm business and how social safety nets may interact with household and business development trajectories. We use the example of US farm households' access to health insurance and health care to develop empirical insights into these rese…
A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
The changing structure of agriculture strains the historically close relationship between commodity agriculture and rural development. Meanwhile, growth in consumer interest for differentiated, value-added products has the potential to create community economic development opportunities. However, the evidence regarding the benefit of value-added programs for broader community wealth is mixed. We argue that the mixed findings result, in part, from…
The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms
Social science inquiries of American agriculture have long recognized the inextricability of farm households and farm businesses. Efforts to train and support farmers, however, often privilege business realm indicators over social issues. Such framings implicitly position households as disconnected from farm stress or farm success. This article argues that systematically tracing the pathways between farm households and farm operations represents …
The case for integrating household social needs and social policy into the international family farm research agenda
Working households: Challenges in balancing young children and the farm enterprise
Childcare is a critical issue for working families in the United States; however childcare needs in the agriculture sector have been absent from both childcare and agricultural policy discussions. This study empirically examines the relationship between childcare, the farm business, and the farm family while probing larger questions related to quality of life, labor market outcomes, and the gendered nature of work as families negotiate on-and off…
Agriculture, health insurance, human capital and economic development at the rural-urban-interface
Redefining the Farmer-Processor Relationship: The Story of Organic Cow
This article examines, from the viewpoint of a core group of Vermont milk producers, the period in the mid-1990s when organic dairy became mainstream. We look at the rise and subsequent takeover of one of the first organic milk-processing companies, The Organic Cow of Vermont, through the eyes of the farmers involved. In so doing, we provide needed perspective on the role of food producers working in industries subject to growth and consolidation…
Scaling-up regional fruit and vegetable distribution: Potential for adaptive change in the food system
Environmental justice and citizen perceptions of a proposed electric transmission line
This research sought to understand public perceptions of the decision-making process over a controversial high-voltage electric transmission line proposed in New Hampshire in the northeastern United States. These perceptions were gauged through an analysis of comments made by citizens during public meetings held for the project. The findings show that while public managers, utilities, and developers often cite the physical aspects of energy proje…
The Differing Values of Multigeneration and First-Generation Farmers: Their Influence on the Structure of Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface
Recognizing the inherent pressures on farm families and farmland, USDA has been developing policies and programs that simultaneously attempt to retain existing farm families on the landscape, recruit new farmers, and create lasting economic opportunities rooted in agriculture. In this article we argue that to date there has been an overemphasis on economic and structural approaches and a systematic discounting of the way individual farmer and far…
Farm persistence and adaptation at the rural–urban interface: Succession and farm adjustment
Restaurants, chefs and local foods: Insights drawn from application of a diffusion of innovation framework
Farm persistence and adaptation at the rural–urban interface: Succession and farm adjustment
The Differing Values of Multigeneration and First-Generation Farmers: Their Influence on the Structure of Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface
Recognizing the inherent pressures on farm families and farmland, USDA has been developing policies and programs that simultaneously attempt to retain existing farm families on the landscape, recruit new farmers, and create lasting economic opportunities rooted in agriculture. In this article we argue that to date there has been an overemphasis on economic and structural approaches and a systematic discounting of the way individual farmer and far…
Restaurants, chefs and local foods: Insights drawn from application of a diffusion of innovation framework
The case for integrating household social needs and social policy into the international family farm research agenda
Working households: Challenges in balancing young children and the farm enterprise
Childcare is a critical issue for working families in the United States; however childcare needs in the agriculture sector have been absent from both childcare and agricultural policy discussions. This study empirically examines the relationship between childcare, the farm business, and the farm family while probing larger questions related to quality of life, labor market outcomes, and the gendered nature of work as families negotiate on-and off…
The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms
Social science inquiries of American agriculture have long recognized the inextricability of farm households and farm businesses. Efforts to train and support farmers, however, often privilege business realm indicators over social issues. Such framings implicitly position households as disconnected from farm stress or farm success. This article argues that systematically tracing the pathways between farm households and farm operations represents …
Scaling-up regional fruit and vegetable distribution: Potential for adaptive change in the food system
Children needs and childcare: An Illustration of How Underappreciated Social and Economic Needs Shape the Farm Enterprise
Environmental justice and citizen perceptions of a proposed electric transmission line
This research sought to understand public perceptions of the decision-making process over a controversial high-voltage electric transmission line proposed in New Hampshire in the northeastern United States. These perceptions were gauged through an analysis of comments made by citizens during public meetings held for the project. The findings show that while public managers, utilities, and developers often cite the physical aspects of energy proje…
A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
The changing structure of agriculture strains the historically close relationship between commodity agriculture and rural development. Meanwhile, growth in consumer interest for differentiated, value-added products has the potential to create community economic development opportunities. However, the evidence regarding the benefit of value-added programs for broader community wealth is mixed. We argue that the mixed findings result, in part, from…
Agriculture, health insurance, human capital and economic development at the rural-urban-interface
New insights on the role of the farm household-farm operation interface in family farm persistence and a call for future research
Medical economic vulnerability: A next step in expanding the farm resilience scholarship
In recent years, the long-standing questions of why, how, and which farm families continue farming in the face of ongoing changes have increasingly been studied through the resilience lens. While this body of work is providing updated and novel insights, two limitations, a focus on macro-level challenges faced by the farm operation and a mismatch between the scale of challenges and resilience measures, likely limit our understanding of the factor…
Restaurants, chefs and local foods: Insights drawn from application of a diffusion of innovation framework
Farm persistence and adaptation at the rural–urban interface: Succession and farm adjustment
The Differing Values of Multigeneration and First-Generation Farmers: Their Influence on the Structure of Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface
Recognizing the inherent pressures on farm families and farmland, USDA has been developing policies and programs that simultaneously attempt to retain existing farm families on the landscape, recruit new farmers, and create lasting economic opportunities rooted in agriculture. In this article we argue that to date there has been an overemphasis on economic and structural approaches and a systematic discounting of the way individual farmer and far…
Environmental justice and citizen perceptions of a proposed electric transmission line
This research sought to understand public perceptions of the decision-making process over a controversial high-voltage electric transmission line proposed in New Hampshire in the northeastern United States. These perceptions were gauged through an analysis of comments made by citizens during public meetings held for the project. The findings show that while public managers, utilities, and developers often cite the physical aspects of energy proje…
Scaling-up regional fruit and vegetable distribution: Potential for adaptive change in the food system
Redefining the Farmer-Processor Relationship: The Story of Organic Cow
This article examines, from the viewpoint of a core group of Vermont milk producers, the period in the mid-1990s when organic dairy became mainstream. We look at the rise and subsequent takeover of one of the first organic milk-processing companies, The Organic Cow of Vermont, through the eyes of the farmers involved. In so doing, we provide needed perspective on the role of food producers working in industries subject to growth and consolidation…
Agriculture, health insurance, human capital and economic development at the rural-urban-interface
The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms
Social science inquiries of American agriculture have long recognized the inextricability of farm households and farm businesses. Efforts to train and support farmers, however, often privilege business realm indicators over social issues. Such framings implicitly position households as disconnected from farm stress or farm success. This article argues that systematically tracing the pathways between farm households and farm operations represents …
The case for integrating household social needs and social policy into the international family farm research agenda
Working households: Challenges in balancing young children and the farm enterprise
Childcare is a critical issue for working families in the United States; however childcare needs in the agriculture sector have been absent from both childcare and agricultural policy discussions. This study empirically examines the relationship between childcare, the farm business, and the farm family while probing larger questions related to quality of life, labor market outcomes, and the gendered nature of work as families negotiate on-and off…
A contemporary concept of the value(s)-added food and agriculture sector and rural development
The changing structure of agriculture strains the historically close relationship between commodity agriculture and rural development. Meanwhile, growth in consumer interest for differentiated, value-added products has the potential to create community economic development opportunities. However, the evidence regarding the benefit of value-added programs for broader community wealth is mixed. We argue that the mixed findings result, in part, from…
Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming
Despite long-standing safety recommendations that non-working children be supervised off the worksite by an adult, little is known about farm families' ability to comply. We conducted a review of 92 documents and 36 key informant interviews in three U.S. states (Ohio, Vermont, and Wisconsin) to assess how farm service providers and farm organizations address the intersection of children and childcare with farm work and farm safety in programming.…
Medical economic vulnerability: A next step in expanding the farm resilience scholarship
In recent years, the long-standing questions of why, how, and which farm families continue farming in the face of ongoing changes have increasingly been studied through the resilience lens. While this body of work is providing updated and novel insights, two limitations, a focus on macro-level challenges faced by the farm operation and a mismatch between the scale of challenges and resilience measures, likely limit our understanding of the factor…
Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households' social needs, social policy and the farm business
Rural studies scholars have highlighted the important role farm households play in propping up the farm business along the life course. Yet, little is known about how challenges facing farm households impact the farm business and how social safety nets may interact with household and business development trajectories. We use the example of US farm households' access to health insurance and health care to develop empirical insights into these rese…
Farm households and the elusiveness of social sustainability: Contrasting the emotional registers of organic and conventional producers
New insights on the role of the farm household-farm operation interface in family farm persistence and a call for future research
Children needs and childcare: An Illustration of How Underappreciated Social and Economic Needs Shape the Farm Enterprise
Finding our way through the fog: Embedding Social Infrastructure in Food System Resilience
In this commentary we focus on the significance of social infrastructure for food system resilience by drawing on the insights and experiences from our positions as emergency management practitioners and land-grant university social science food system researchers working with emergency management agencies, food system and food security organizations. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the years since, as a group we have worked in …
Finding our place in public scholarship
In her 2024 Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) Presidential Adress, Shoshanah Inwood reflects on our role as researchers, teachers, practitioners, and as engaged citizens in public scholarship, and the role of our Agriculture Food and Human Values Society in public scholarship. Inwood first defines public scholarship and shares how her research examining the connections between farm viability and access to affordable quality health …
Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health
Due to high-stress agricultural working environments, farmers are at high risk for mental illness, including anxiety, depression, and suicide. These challenges are exacerbated by rural settings with limited access to mental healthcare and pervasive mental health stigma. An area of increasing interest is how climate change impacts, such as drought, extreme temperatures, and changing seasons, impact farmer mental health and well-being. Utilizing a …
Business (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Agriculture (14 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Marketing (8 works) · Rural development and sustainability (8 works)