Daniel Tobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Tobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobin |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2087-260X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Repeat? The Logic of Agricultural Modernization, the Choices of Tanzanian Small‐Scale Farmers, and Implications for the Second Green Revolution
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at modernizing small‐scale farming to address food insecurity and poverty, yet AGRA has fallen short of its goals. This study explores whether these shortcomings might stem from flawed assumptions in AGRA's theory of change—assumptions long embedded in top‐down agricultural modernization efforts. We situate AGRA within broader debates on the agrari…
Smallholder farmers’ diverse values in maize landrace conservation: A case study from Chiapas, Mexico
Enhancing resilience through seed system plurality and diversity: Challenges and barriers to seed sourcing during (and in spite of) a global pandemic
Towards quantifying relational values: Crop diversity and the relational and instrumental values of seed growers in Vermont
Gendered differences in decision-making and participation in value chains: Lessons from the highlands of Peru
Value chain development (VCD) has emerged as one pro-poor market-oriented strategy targeting smallholder farmers. Emphasis has been placed on women smallholders, but few studies examine intra-household dynamics related to VCD opportunities. Through a case study on native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru, this study draws on semi-structured interviews to explore intra-household decisions to participate in VCD, how household agr…
Motivations for maintaining crop diversity: Evidence from Vermont's seed systems
Does crop diversity at the village level influence child nutrition security? Evidence from 11 sub-Saharan African countries
Value Chain Development and the Agrarian Question: Actor Perspectives on Native Potato Production in the Highlands of Peru
Value chain development seeks to integrate smallholder farmers into competitive markets to promote economic and social development. This article, conceptually based on the agrarian question, considers how the perspectives of various value chain actors, with particular focus on smallholders, have important implications for the outcomes of these market-oriented initiatives. Utilizing Long's concept of social interface, we present a mixed-methods ca…
Reciprocity, redistribution and relational values: Organizing and motivating sustainable agriculture
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Reconciling the Epistemological, Ethical, Political, and Practical Challenges
Theatrical Performance and the Archaeological Imagination: A Transformational Journey
What happens when you take archaeological artifacts out of the lab or the museum, and use them to inspire a storytelling performance? How might artifacts inspire theater, and how might theater animate artifacts? Here, in a dialogue between a writer/performer and an anthropologist, we explore these questions, using a recent solo performance piece to think about the possibilities of theater inspired by an "archaeological imagination
Double Movement in Hybrid Governance
In this paper, we apply Polanyi's double movement to characterize the potential and observed impacts of public-private and public-philanthropic partnerships for the development of pro-poor value chains. We highlight the contradiction between the goals of these partnerships in international agricultural development, which seek to shift power dynamics and counter market exclusion, and the internal logic of these hybrid governance approaches, which …
Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Natural Resources: Barriers and Priorities for Land-Grant Universities in the Northeastern United States
Climate change has serious implications for agricultural production, natural resource management, and food security. In the United States, land-grant universities and the U.S. Cooperative Extension System have a critical role to play in conducting basic and applied research related to climate change and translating findings into meaningful programming. However, land-grant universities and Extension have had difficulty maintaining their roles as t…
United States agricultural stakeholder views and decisions on climate change
Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to agricultural production globally and in the United States; it is both vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate and a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Because farmers need to quickly adapt to reduce their risks and emissions, there is a pressing need to better understand the process by which they make decisions. This complex decision‐making process includes many factors, such as farme…
Pro-poor? Inclusion and exclusion in native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru
Food access and pro-poor value chains: A community case study in the central highlands of Peru
Hydrogen Highways: Lessons on the Energy Technology-Policy Interface
The hydrogen economy has received increasing attention recently. Common reasons cited for investigating hydrogen energy options are improved energy security, reduced environmental impacts, and its contribution to a transition to sustainable energy sources. In anticipation of these benefits, national and local initiatives have been launched in the United States, creating pilot “roadmaps” and technology partnerships to explore hydrogen economy plat…
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
As perhaps the first to critically assess the oeuvre of the 1995 Nobel Laureate from the perspective of religion, a Heaney guiding preoccupation, Tobin (English, Carthage College) navigates nine collections of poetry including the most recent, The Spirit Level (1996) with the image of a sacred groun
Pro-poor? Inclusion and exclusion in native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru
United States agricultural stakeholder views and decisions on climate change
Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to agricultural production globally and in the United States; it is both vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate and a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Because farmers need to quickly adapt to reduce their risks and emissions, there is a pressing need to better understand the process by which they make decisions. This complex decision‐making process includes many factors, such as farme…
Reciprocity, redistribution and relational values: Organizing and motivating sustainable agriculture
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
As perhaps the first to critically assess the oeuvre of the 1995 Nobel Laureate from the perspective of religion, a Heaney guiding preoccupation, Tobin (English, Carthage College) navigates nine collections of poetry including the most recent, The Spirit Level (1996) with the image of a sacred groun
Value Chain Development and the Agrarian Question: Actor Perspectives on Native Potato Production in the Highlands of Peru
Value chain development seeks to integrate smallholder farmers into competitive markets to promote economic and social development. This article, conceptually based on the agrarian question, considers how the perspectives of various value chain actors, with particular focus on smallholders, have important implications for the outcomes of these market-oriented initiatives. Utilizing Long's concept of social interface, we present a mixed-methods ca…
Towards quantifying relational values: Crop diversity and the relational and instrumental values of seed growers in Vermont
Gendered differences in decision-making and participation in value chains: Lessons from the highlands of Peru
Value chain development (VCD) has emerged as one pro-poor market-oriented strategy targeting smallholder farmers. Emphasis has been placed on women smallholders, but few studies examine intra-household dynamics related to VCD opportunities. Through a case study on native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru, this study draws on semi-structured interviews to explore intra-household decisions to participate in VCD, how household agr…
Does crop diversity at the village level influence child nutrition security? Evidence from 11 sub-Saharan African countries
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Reconciling the Epistemological, Ethical, Political, and Practical Challenges
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
As perhaps the first to critically assess the oeuvre of the 1995 Nobel Laureate from the perspective of religion, a Heaney guiding preoccupation, Tobin (English, Carthage College) navigates nine collections of poetry including the most recent, The Spirit Level (1996) with the image of a sacred groun
Hydrogen Highways: Lessons on the Energy Technology-Policy Interface
The hydrogen economy has received increasing attention recently. Common reasons cited for investigating hydrogen energy options are improved energy security, reduced environmental impacts, and its contribution to a transition to sustainable energy sources. In anticipation of these benefits, national and local initiatives have been launched in the United States, creating pilot “roadmaps” and technology partnerships to explore hydrogen economy plat…
Food access and pro-poor value chains: A community case study in the central highlands of Peru
Pro-poor? Inclusion and exclusion in native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru
Double Movement in Hybrid Governance
In this paper, we apply Polanyi's double movement to characterize the potential and observed impacts of public-private and public-philanthropic partnerships for the development of pro-poor value chains. We highlight the contradiction between the goals of these partnerships in international agricultural development, which seek to shift power dynamics and counter market exclusion, and the internal logic of these hybrid governance approaches, which …
Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Natural Resources: Barriers and Priorities for Land-Grant Universities in the Northeastern United States
Climate change has serious implications for agricultural production, natural resource management, and food security. In the United States, land-grant universities and the U.S. Cooperative Extension System have a critical role to play in conducting basic and applied research related to climate change and translating findings into meaningful programming. However, land-grant universities and Extension have had difficulty maintaining their roles as t…
United States agricultural stakeholder views and decisions on climate change
Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to agricultural production globally and in the United States; it is both vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate and a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Because farmers need to quickly adapt to reduce their risks and emissions, there is a pressing need to better understand the process by which they make decisions. This complex decision‐making process includes many factors, such as farme…
Reciprocity, redistribution and relational values: Organizing and motivating sustainable agriculture
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Reconciling the Epistemological, Ethical, Political, and Practical Challenges
Theatrical Performance and the Archaeological Imagination: A Transformational Journey
What happens when you take archaeological artifacts out of the lab or the museum, and use them to inspire a storytelling performance? How might artifacts inspire theater, and how might theater animate artifacts? Here, in a dialogue between a writer/performer and an anthropologist, we explore these questions, using a recent solo performance piece to think about the possibilities of theater inspired by an "archaeological imagination
Does crop diversity at the village level influence child nutrition security? Evidence from 11 sub-Saharan African countries
Value Chain Development and the Agrarian Question: Actor Perspectives on Native Potato Production in the Highlands of Peru
Value chain development seeks to integrate smallholder farmers into competitive markets to promote economic and social development. This article, conceptually based on the agrarian question, considers how the perspectives of various value chain actors, with particular focus on smallholders, have important implications for the outcomes of these market-oriented initiatives. Utilizing Long's concept of social interface, we present a mixed-methods ca…
Motivations for maintaining crop diversity: Evidence from Vermont's seed systems
Towards quantifying relational values: Crop diversity and the relational and instrumental values of seed growers in Vermont
Gendered differences in decision-making and participation in value chains: Lessons from the highlands of Peru
Value chain development (VCD) has emerged as one pro-poor market-oriented strategy targeting smallholder farmers. Emphasis has been placed on women smallholders, but few studies examine intra-household dynamics related to VCD opportunities. Through a case study on native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru, this study draws on semi-structured interviews to explore intra-household decisions to participate in VCD, how household agr…
Enhancing resilience through seed system plurality and diversity: Challenges and barriers to seed sourcing during (and in spite of) a global pandemic
Smallholder farmers’ diverse values in maize landrace conservation: A case study from Chiapas, Mexico
On Repeat? The Logic of Agricultural Modernization, the Choices of Tanzanian Small‐Scale Farmers, and Implications for the Second Green Revolution
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at modernizing small‐scale farming to address food insecurity and poverty, yet AGRA has fallen short of its goals. This study explores whether these shortcomings might stem from flawed assumptions in AGRA's theory of change—assumptions long embedded in top‐down agricultural modernization efforts. We situate AGRA within broader debates on the agrari…
Agriculture (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works)