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    Agriculture Innovation Center to support value-added agriculture in Northeast Ohio

    Mar 21, 2024

    SENR faculty member to direct the new The Northeast Ohio Agriculture Innovation Center with an investment awarded through the USDA Agriculture Innovation Center Program.

    One of Ohio’s most vibrant agricultural regions will be the recipient of a “one-stop shop,” developed by The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), to help food, fiber, and fuel value-added agriculture producers set themselves up for success.

    The Northeast Ohio Agriculture Innovation Center (NEO-AIC) is the result of an almost $1 million new grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development, with matching in-kind funds of nearly $500,000 from Ohio State. The three-year investment was awarded through the USDA Agriculture Innovation Center Program.

    “Northeast Ohio is a great agricultural region with rich prime soils and is home to a diversity of businesses and farms, including the highest concentration of women farmers and small and medium farms in Ohio,” said Shoshanah Inwood, CFAES program director and rural sociologist. Learn more about the NEO-AIC >>

  2. Dr. Shoshanah Inwood

    Faculty member in-coming president of AFHVS

    May 30, 2023

    Faculty member Shoshanah Inwood is the in-coming president of the Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS).  The AFHVS founded in 1987 promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the broad areas of agriculture and rural studies. Dr. Inwood will assume the role of President at the upcoming 2023 Association for the Study of Food and Society and AFHVS annual conference, Knowing Food hosted by Boston University’s Metropolitan College.

  3. In The Conversation

    May 18, 2023

    Lack of affordable childcare is hurting young farm families’ ability to grow their businesses – the US farm bill may finally offer some help

    Read the full article originally published in The Conversation by Shoshanah Inwood, associate professor of rural sociology at The Ohio State University and Florence Becot, associate research scientist, National Farm Medicine Center.

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    Farming and parenting—a tough juggling act

    Oct 27, 2020

    Raising children on a farm might sound idyllic, but in a national study, most farmers with children under 18 said childcare was a challenge.  Over two-thirds of first-generation farmers, people who had not grown up on farms, reported struggles with childcare, from finding affordable options nearby to finding providers whose childrearing philosophy matched theirs. Even multigenerational farmers, many who live near relatives, said childcare’s affordability, availability, or quality was a problem. Just over half of those farmers reported some type of childcare challenge.  “This is going to come as a surprise to a lot of people who don’t think childcare is an issue for farmers,” said Shoshanah Inwood, an assistant professor at The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) and the lead researcher of the study.

  5. In the news

    What consumers will see and should expect as farmers markets, farm markets, and you-pick operations open amid COVID-19

    Jun 8, 2020

    SENR faculty member Shoshanah Inwood, assistant professor of community, food, and economic development discusses the COVID-19 pandemic impact on growers, local farmers, and livestock producers and what consumers will see and should expect as Ohio farmers markets, farm markets, and you-pick operations open in a recent CFAES News Release.