Building Farm and Farm Family Resilience in our Communities: A Guide for Extension Professionals to Engage Strategically

Publication Description

The purpose of this guide is to strengthen the ability of Extension professionals to reduce risk and stressors and increase the resilience of farms and farming families within the context of a socioecological framework. The guide was created to help professionals think and act through a research-based, theory-informed, multidisciplinary approach to addressing problems and issues, and creating solutions.

Land-Grant Institution

University of Delaware, University of Maryland

Author(s) (NAME, EMAIL, INSTITUTION)

Bonnie Braun, bbraun@umd.edu, University of Maryland
Maria Pippidis, pippidis@udel.edu, University of Delaware

Publication Audience

Cooperative Extension

Publication Type

Content Publication

Publication Date

May 24, 2021

Copyright

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

This work is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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