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Van Den Bergh, Nan – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1989
Outlines the development of a service delivery network--California Farm Families in Transition--for distressed farmers in Fresno County. Describes the three-tiered prevention model used, initial needs assessment, and services provided in legal, financial, mental health, social, and job development areas. Contains 15 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Farmers
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Direct linkFriedland, William H. – Rural Sociology, 2002
When is a farm a farm? When is rural rural? Has the issue of the rural-urban continuum returned? Decades ago rural sociology worked itself into two blind alleys: rural-urban differences and attempts to define the rural-urban fringe. Although these conceptual problems eventually were exhausted, recent developments in California raise the…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Rural Sociology, Counties, Agriculture
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1972
During the hearings of the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, various statements prepared for the Subcommittee on Monopoly of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business hearing on the role of giant corporations in the American and world economies were included. This appendix includes some of those statements. The statements given cover: (1)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agribusiness, Community Influence, Economics
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1972
This appendix consists of articles and publications included in the subcommittee's hearings on farmworkers in rural America. Among these are: (1) excerpts from "The People Left Behind"; (2) "A Bountiful Tax Harvest" (reprint from the "Texas Law Review", December 1969); (3) "Farm Losses Under the Tax Reform Act of…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Bibliographies, Consumer Economics, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1972
On January 12, 1972, the Subcommittee resumed its hearings on the impact of agribusiness and agrigovernment on the welfare of the family farmer, the farm worker, and the rural community. Witnesses testified on such topics as: (1) problems of rural poverty; (2l some of the court litigation taking place in Fresno County; (3) the syndication of…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Change Strategies, Court Litigation, Economic Factors
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1972
On January 11, 1972, the subcommittee heard further testimony on land ownership, use, and distribution in rural America. Witnesses gave testimony on: (1) Land ownership in California and the Nation; (2) the difficulties encountered in finding out who owns the land; (3) the implications of the continuing trend toward ever-higher concentration of…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Trends, Economic Factors
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1972
On January 13, 1972, the subcommittee resumed its hearings on land ownership, agribusiness, and agrigovernment in California. Witnesses testified on: (1) the impact of land use, ownership, and distribution on farmworkers, farmers, and consumers; (2) the national policy of land ownership and distribution; (3) California's water project and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Change Strategies
LaBelle, Thomas J.; Goncalves, Jose da Silva – 1981
Designed to identify the strengths, weaknesses, and effects of California's Family Farm Program, an umbrella structure composed of four distinct but interrelated organizations (the Family Farm Council, the Central Information Service located at the University of California-Davis, Hartnell College Family Farm Resource Center at Salinas, and Kings…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, College Role, Cooperative Programs
