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New Ranchers, New Possibilities: First-generation Ranchers in California
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | New Ranchers, New Possibilities: First-generation Ranchers in California. |
| 개인저자 | Munden-Dixon, Katherine. |
| 단체저자명 | University of California, Davis. Geography. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: University of California, Davis., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 103 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-06B. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392463932 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-06, Section: B.
Advisor: Galt, Ryan E. |
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| 요약 | This dissertation examines the impacts of demographic and climatic transitions occurring in California agriculture, with a specific focus on first-generation ranchers (FGRs). Through the use of three interrelated articles that span two phases of research, I examine the operation characteristics, management strategies, and innovations FGRs are using to enter California's socio-ecological context. The introduction explores my intellectual journey as I developed this research project in the absence of established literature and data on first-generation ranchers in California. The first chapter presents findings from the first phase of my research through the use of a socioecological framework to compare the operations, demographics and values of FGRs and multi-generation ranchers (MGRs) in California. Based on a quantitative analysis of a rangeland decision-making survey, my coauthors and I find that FGRs in California are more susceptible to drought and underserved by organizations when compared to their multigenerational counterparts. We conclude with a call for outreach organizations and researchers to evaluate reasons for FGRs' drought vulnerability and information needs. In the second chapter I present overall findings from the second phase of my research on FGRs' demographics, operation characteristics, and information use. Using a combination of surveys and semi-structured interviews of California FGRs, I find that these new ranchers tend to be younger and more likely to be female than the average agricultural producer in California. In place of primarily commodity beef cattle production, FGRs are instead engaging in targeted and contract grazing, diversified income streams, directly marketed meat production inclusive of diverse species, and working for established ranches. The economic barriers to entering cattle ranching combined with FGRs' socioecological motivations to raise livestock are overlapping drivers for FGRs using non-University of California information and the lack of new beef cattle ranchers. In the third chapter, I explore how the subjectivities of ecosystem stewards, a large subset of FGRs from the second phase of research, are co-created by the political ecology of California's heterogenous context. FGR ecosystem stewards are motivated to enter livestock production to create meaningful lives and mitigate climate change through grazing cattle, sheep, and goats. They are experimenting with strategies that have the potential to address pressing public issues including fire mitigation, soil carbon sequestration, and habitat restoration. However, I find that this marginal group of ranchers are not receiving appropriate support from public universities or rancher support organizations in part because they are using a different paradigm than the majority of ranching in California. In the conclusion I propose interdisciplinary research trajectories around the democratic creation of equitable and regenerative livestock systems in order to answer the following questions: 1) Does contract and targeted grazing for ecological goals allow new and diverse demographics of ranchers satisfactory livelihoods while providing ecological benefits? and, 2) How should multifunctional land policies and policy interventions that are inclusive and equitable for ranchers be developed, implemented, and enforced? |
| 일반주제명 | Geography. Agriculture. Range management. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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