Cornelia Butler Flora

Cornelia Butler Flora (August 5, 1943 – April 30, 2025) was an American rural sociologist. She is mostly known for her work on the [https://pcrd.purdue.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Community-Capitals-Framework-Writeup-Oct-2014.pdf 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 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 cited book ''Rural Communities: Legacy + Change'' has seen 43 editions published between 1992 and 2019 in three languages. She was appointed in 2003 to the National Agricultural Research, Education and Economics Advisory Board by the then U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ann Veneman. She was also the president of the Rural Sociological Society in 1988–1989. She was a founding faculty member, from 2000 to 2013, of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Provided by Wikipedia