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Shoshanah Inwood

Associate Professor

Shoshanah Inwood is a rural sociologist and an associate professor in Ohio States School of Environment and Natural Resources. She holds degrees in rural sociology, environmental science and biology. Her career has focused on the intersection of agriculture, environment and society in the context of community and economic development. Inwood has maintained a dual focus studying both the role of communities in food system development and the socio-cultural household level processes that underlie the American food and agriculture system.

Her integrated research and extension program centers on health and well-being in the food and agriculture sector, social factors affecting farm growth, community and economic development through food and agriculture, and food system resilience, disasters and disruptions. These themes tie together through questions examining social sustainability in the food and agriculture sector and focus on people, place and community. She approaches these questions through a sociological lens and utilizes a mixed methods approach integrating qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and analysis techniques. She co-directs the Center for Community and Working Landscapes on the Wooster Campus at The Ohio State University.

Children needs and childcare: an illustration of how underappreciated social and economic needs shape the farm enterprise
Agriculture and Human Values
June 26, 2024

Shoshanah Inwood studies how children and their childcare needs shape the farm enterprise and the extent to which childcare arrangements, farm individuals and households, and farm enterprise characteristics interact with these decisions.

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Agriculture, environment, and society; Community and economic development; Food system development; Food and agriculture systems; Food system resilience, disasters and disruptions.