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    Latino agricultural entrepreneurship project (research team)
    (Cambio Center, 2016)
    The Latino Agricultural Entrepreneurship Project has team members across three states: Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri. The project is being administered through the University of Missouri’s Cambio Center, with the assistance of CAFNR International Programs.
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    Latino agricultural entrepreneurship project (publications and presentations)
    (Cambio Center, 2016)
    Publications and presentations included at the Latino Agricultural Entrepreneurship Project, a three-year integrated research and extension project that studied the diversity of Latino agricultural livelihood strategies—from established farmers to emerging farmers, and those interested in becoming farmers—and the agricultural networks that support farming, to identify the capacities needed to improve access to existing knowledge and financial resources in Iowa, Michigan and Missouri.
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    Latino agricultural entrepreneurship project (project sites)
    (Cambio Center, 2016)
    The project sites of the Latino agricultural entrepreneurship project include three states: Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri. Iowa: Located in northwestern Iowa on the South Dakota border, Sioux County is very prosperous and quite conservative. As of July 2013, the population of Sioux County was 34,547. According to the 2013 Census estimates, 83 percent of residents self-identified as non-Latino whites or Caucasians and 9.7 percent as Hispanic/Latino. Michigan: In 2007, Michigan ranked first in the Midwest and 10th in the nation in the total number of Latino principal farm operators. Past research has shown Latino farmers in Michigan are distributed across families that have been in this country from one to several generations; a majority (59%) of them have been farming for more than 10 years, and have prior farming experience; and approximately 50% of respondents are blueberry farmers; 25% livestock farmers, and 25% other farmers (grains, hay, ornamentals and other field crops). Missouri: The study locations in Missouri will be centered on Barry and Laurence counties in southwest Missouri and Pettis and Saline counties in central Missouri. The Latino farmers in southwest Missouri tend to be new, small, and focused on livestock production and small-scale farming. The farmers in central Missouri are similar in that they are new but the farmland there is better for crop production so there is the possibility crop production on scales not possible in southwest Missouri.
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    Latino agricultural entrepreneurship project (objectives)
    (Cambio Center, 2016)
    The long-term goal for this project is to better understand and support the incorporation of Latino agricultural entrepreneurs into agricultural networks, service delivery systems, and agricultural markets that will enable them to contribute to the wellbeing and wealth creation for sustainable rural development in the Midwest, specifically targeting Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri. Objectives: Overall Research Objective: Develop a framework to assess the agricultural livelihood strategies in the context of rural livelihoods and the field of farming (the set of institutions and organizations that support farming) to develop an entrepreneurial readiness protocol that can inform service providers and employers. Overall Extension Objective: Assess the assets and needs of providers from the public sector and private sector and develop tools that respond to their needs in serving the Latino agricultural entrepreneurs.
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    Latino agricultural entrepreneurship project (models and methods)
    (Cambio Center, 2016)
    There are two primary sources of data for this project. The first is the community of practice—the community collaborators and advisors we engage as part of the project. They will share what they believe to be their needs in terms of being able to provide effective support to the Latino entrepreneur-farmers. The second and principal source of data will be the Latino entrepreneur-farmers. A variant on a “wealth-based” approach to rural economic development will be applied to research and outreach efforts to match family or household capitals (assets) possessed by Latino farmers and farm worker families with opportunities to utilize those capitals. We will utilize a capitals framework at both the household and community levels to assess potentials for enhanced rural development. Similarly, we will document their levels of human, cultural, political, natural, financial, and build capital, and assess how those assets can be utilized and combined in new ways to improve their life quality and livelihood options. We expect that if household livelihood strategies can be enhanced and options expanded, that this would in turn strengthen capitals at the community level.