Analyzing farmer networks is focus of new training manual
The Northeast Center provided key support to partners at Delaware State University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Tennessee State University for a competitive, USDA-funded capacity-building project to provide traditionally underserved farmers in Tennessee, Maryland, and Delaware an opportunity to expand their networks. The team utilized network analysis to document the farmers’ networks, and developed a curriculum on network analysis for Extension educators, available here (3.1MB PDF).