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Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103644

Zhenglei Wang , Jiajun Qiao , Gaiyan Wang , Qiankun Zhu , Wei Wang , Yanwei Feng

Promoting rural economic revitalization through industrial development is the primary path towards rural revitalization amid global rural decline. We portrayed the spatiotemporal evolution of “One Village, One Product” demonstration villages and towns (DVTs) in China from 2011 to 2021, explored their spatial clustering characteristics using hotspot analysis, investigated spatial differences using Dagum Gini Coefficient, identified influencing factors using geo-detector, and analyzed their influencing mechanisms to reveal the hidden issues. Results indicated that the number of DVTs increased, but the dominant industry categories differed significantly, with agricultural DVTs dominating. Fruit cultivation, vegetables, edible fungi and horticulture, and crop cultivation dominated industrial subcategories. DVTs presented a spatial pattern of dense east and sparse west, dense north and sparse south, with a balanced development trend. Spatial aggregation of DVTs was weakened but locally enhanced, mainly in sub-cold and cold spot areas. DVTs were characterized by spatial non-equilibrium, which gradually increased, and the primary sources of spatial variation were cross-influences between different regions. The spatial pattern evolution of DVTs results from the market demand orientation and policy guidance, supported by traffic level and economic foundation, on top of the basic conditions of DVTs such as geographical conditions and resources. Issues like regional imbalance, industrial homogenization risk, and traditional agricultural limitations are evident behind the spatial pattern of DVTs, which urgently need to be addressed. The essence of the DVTs is to support the development of economic growth cores within them, form specialized production clusters, realize industrial linkages between counties, towns and villages, and build integrated urban-rural industrial systems. The composite top-down and bottom-up development model of China's DVTs is transferable to other developing countries. We proposed measures to foster DVTs based on specific results and the potential problems revealed, offering insights for global rural economic growth.

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The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103656

Soja Sädeharju

Global environmental change induces the demand for urgent and transformative action to shift the paradigm in agricultural practices from degenerative to regenerative. The decision-making of farmers has a significant role for our future, since agriculture has an enormous impact on the well-being of our planet. This study explores intuition in regenerative farmers' (RF) decision-making. Regenerative agriculture (RA) might help mitigate climate change and strengthen overall socio-ecological resilience, in addition to producing food. While intuition has been recognised as expert-farmers’ primary decision-making process, research of subjective knowledge behind farmers' decision to transition to RA is limited. To fill this gap, this paper asks: How is intuition used and experienced in RFs' everyday-lives? The framework draws on experiences of 84 Finnish RFs who participated in Carbon Action research project. Data was collected via survey and interviews and analysed iteratively using a qualitative inductive approach (Gioia Method). Intuition appeared to have a significant role in RFs' decision-making and holistically in life, and is therefore linked to regenerative decision-making. A multidimensional framework of the elements of intuition was created as a result. The findings reveal and operationalise the concealed, essential nature of intuition, and enable the incorporation of this elusive phenomenon into agricultural discourses where it is currently absent. Transforming discourses also has leverage to transform the paradigm of decision-making to a regenerative form. The findings confirm the significance of intuition in RFs’ decision-making, and establish novel directions for future research on intuition in decision-making in agriculture and beyond.

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Capturing social sensing of farming activities for policymaking in fragile contexts 为脆弱环境下的决策捕捉农耕活动的社会感应

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103638

Nadir Ahmed Elagib , Bashir M. Ahmed , Hussein M. Sulieman , Abbas E. Rahma , Marwan M.A. Ali , Karl Schneider

Social sensing data are lacking particularly in fragile and conflict-affected communities (FACAC). Stakeholder specific data are however needed to identify vulnerabilities and exposure to hazards. Climate vagaries, environmental degradation, high political pressure, shrinking economy predominantly dependent on agricultural production, and violent conflict characterize challenges of many developing countries. Based upon our experience in collecting geospatial datasets on farm management practices in the African Sahel, we address key questions: Which approach to comprehensive social data acquisition is suitable and promising particularly in FACAC? Can such an approach mitigate shortages in data availability arising from insufficient or failing government structures? To this end, we present challenges encountered, opportunities and key lessons. We aim to offer a guiding blueprint for researchers and practitioners to organize farm-level surveys in fragile and conflict-affected states. A survey was developed and used in Sudan by means of a smartphone app and in traditional paper form. The survey took place during the period spanning July 2022 to April 2024. Challenges such as sampling under non-updated census, lack of logistics, technology, financial limitation, distrust, low women representation, remoteness and vastness of localities, lacking infrastructure, and dialect often limit the access to different groups of farmers. Using international cooperation of Sudanese and German researchers, involving official staff and locals, and a balanced use of traditional as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) approaches facilitated a successful data collection campaign. The survey resulted in >1800 interviews with over 70 questions pertaining to three different farming systems, namely traditional and mechanized rainfed as well as irrigated systems. Our results and recommendations show that conducting social sensing at the farm level in challenging situations can be effectively achieved as a basis for research and policy intervention.

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Beyond homonormativity versus anti-normativity: Recognising transformative practices of rainbow families in rural alpine Switzerland

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103635

Stefanie Claudine Boulila , Christiane Carri

Scholars who study LGBTIQ+¹ parents often pose the question of whether rainbow families assimilate to or subvert the normative power of the nuclear family. We argue that queer theory’s attachment to anti-normativity and its subsequent overemphasis on metronormative concepts, such as homonormativity, fail to deliver analytically situated analyses of queer rural lives and parenthood. Decentering the question of normativity, we analyze the lived experiences of lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer parents in the Swiss canton of Valais and how they seek transformation. We examine how the families understand and politicize their lives in Valais, including the local socio-cultural structures. Although the families display no attachment to anti-normative identities or practices, they have an ardent desire for change that is rooted in their everyday lives. We argue that their experiences of marginalization have a politicizing effect on them and prompt them to engage in an array of space-claiming practices through which they hope to realize more liveable futures for families that do not fit the local social fiction.

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What is the future of pastoral livestock farming in the context of climate change? An environmental justice analysis of contested discursive justifications of pastoralism in the Pyrenees 气候变化背景下的畜牧业前景如何？对比利牛斯山牧业存在争议的话语理由进行环境正义分析

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103654

Lisa Darmet, Cécile Barnaud

Livestock farming is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, leading to calls for reduced meat consumption and production. However, existing research often overlooks the specificities of pastoralism, an extensive form of livestock farming practices in mountainous areas. This results in intersecting injustices for pastoralists, which remain under-researched. This article addresses this gap by exploring how these injustices manifest locally, the justice claims articulated by the different actors of these pastoral landscapes, and the impact of climate change on their perceptions of pastoralism. We employ an empirical environmental justice framework to analyze the diverse discourses and justice claims of the inhabitants of a valley in the French Pyrenees, regarding how pastoral livestock farming should evolve (or not) in the context of climate change. Our findings reveal the complexity of issues that impact rural populations and highlight intra-rural inequalities. We show that climate arguments do not necessarily challenge prevailing discourses about pastoralism; instead, they are often integrated in existing dominant discourses about its environmental benefits. However, climate arguments also support minority views about the benefits of spontaneous reforestation resulting from the decline of pastoralism. Additionally, we identify a growing discourse advocating for agricultural diversification in response to climate change, which questions the specialization of mountain regions for pastoralism and highlights related land access injustices. This study underscores the need for centering the voices and knowledge of populations living in pastoral landscapes in order to foster just transformations of these landscapes in the context of climate change.

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“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel "我们脚下的土地依然坚固"：以色列农村青年运动危机中的物质资本和象征资本

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103652

Naama Zohar , Avi Shnider , Liron Shani

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Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America 赋予欧洲农民权力：从非殖民化理论和拉丁美洲土著人民中获得的启示

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103651

L. Lécuyer , S. Calla , B. Coolsaet , I. Rodríguez , J.C. Young

The modernization of European agriculture and new societal concerns around global environmental change and food quality have led to forms of marginalization and misrecognition of European farmers. These include limited political agency in decision-making, economic dependency on industrial inputs, devaluation of traditional farming knowledge, restrictive regulatory frameworks, socio-technical lock-ins reinforcing productivist models, and increasing social stigmatization by the public. We draw parallels between the root causes of farmers' marginalization in Europe and the oppression of Indigenous people in the Global South. Their common struggle for recognition allows us to see how a decolonial approach could contribute to addressing the social malaise of farmers in Europe. There is much to learn from Indigenous people's experience in facing the coloniality matrix of power in their claim for more justice that could benefit farmers and the transformation toward a fairer agri-food system in Europe.

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Does agricultural outsourcing improve technical efficiency? Evidence from farms of various scales in China

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103650

Zhen Zhong, Weiyang Jiang, Sansi Yang

Outsourcing plays an increasingly crucial role in improving the technical efficiency of China's agricultural production sector. This study employs a single-step stochastic frontier analysis model to investigate the impact of agricultural outsourcing on technical efficiency and how this impact varies across different farm scales. Our findings reveal a U-shaped relationship between farm technical efficiency and agricultural outsourcing. As larger farms demonstrating a higher engagement in outsourcing activities, our analysis demonstrates that outsourcing contributes to increased technical efficiency for small- and large-scale farms, while it has a negative impact on technical efficiency for medium-scale farms. This variation is attributed to the diverse benefits of labor division and economies of scale, as well as the differing transaction costs associated with outsourcing. These results remain robust after addressing the endogeneity issue. The heterogeneity analyses across various production stages and types of production outsourcing services underscores the crucial role of specialization, economies of scale, and transaction costs in shaping the relationship between technical efficiency, outsourcing and farm scale.

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Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103641

Rachel Irwin , Ian Short , Áine Ní Dhubháin

The innovation of agroforestry is relatively new in Ireland, with uptake lagging behind targets. This study aimed to identify the reasoning behind this and identify the main barriers to the uptake of agroforestry. The Innovation Systems Approach was used as the analytical framework to the study whereby a structural-functional analysis was used to identify the main barriers/blocking mechanisms. Thirty-three interviews across all four domains of the innovation system (research, intermediary, enterprise and influencing) were undertaken with actors from the wider agricultural and forestry sectors networks. The results demonstrate the following key failures of the current Irish Agroforestry Innovation system: a low level of knowledge of agroforestry; a lack of research undertaken and capacity; a lack of interaction between actors; policy issues; and a lack of goals within actor organisations in supporting and promoting agroforestry. The paper provides a number of recommendations aimed at reducing the identified failures laid out as a set of goals.

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Determinants of collective action by farm producers: A meta-analysis of the likelihood of co-operative membership

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103639

Jasper Grashuis

Collectively owned and controlled by farm producers, co-operatives have been prominent and successful in many countries. The empirical literature on co-operatives is extensive, part of which considers the various determinants of co-operative membership. However, the evidence is mixed and scattered, which warrants a meta-analysis to help inform market and policy initiatives to increase the incidence of collective action by farm producers. Our search yielded 168 studies, 213 model results, and 924 effect size estimates for the ten most common determinants: gender, age, experience, education, household size, farm size, herd size, off-farm income, credit access, and market distance. On the basis of random-effects model results, eight of the ten determinants (excluding off-farm income and market distance) have a positive and significant effect on the likelihood of co-operative membership at the 99 % confidence level. Thus, farm producers who are small, female, young, inexperienced, uneducated, or credit-constrained are less likely to obtain co-operative membership. However, the effect size magnitudes are arguably small; effect size dispersions are not explained significantly by common study-level characteristics such as location (i.e. continent) or commodity sector (e.g. coffee). Information of local contexts is necessary to better understand heterogeneity in effect size observations.

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