From Green to Green: The Environmentalization of Agriculture

This essay analyzes an important but understudied trend in rural America: the repurposing of agricultural lands and waters for the purposes of environmental conservation and ecological restoration. As shown by ethnographic research in a mostly‐drained agricultural region of the Florida Everglades, which is centered on the proposed buyout of a large agricultural corporation for restoration purposes, this transformation is as much a social and cultural project as it is a political‐economic one. The environmentalization of agriculture is a rural American story that is only beginning to be told.