About: Cornelia Butler Flora

Cornelia Butler Flora is an American rural sociologist. She is mostly known for her work on community capitals framework (CCF), feminism in Latin America, social justice, social policy, women in development, rural development, sustainable agriculture, sustainable community, community development, and farmer welfare. She has worked globally across the United States, Latin America, and Africa. There are more than 247 publications (in four languages) to her name over the last five decades of her work. Her widely famous book Rural Communities: Legacy + Change has seen 43 editions published between 1992 and 2019 in three languages. She was appointed to the reputed National Agricultural Research, Education and Economics Advisory Board by the then U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in 2004. She was al