Pub Date : 2024-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103476
Tao Ma , YueNing Wang , Li Zhang , Wuyang Hong , Xiaochun Yang
Arts and creativity are important resources for rural economic prosperity. Based on samples of US-based nonprofit rural arts organizations, this study identifies the network system of US nonprofit arts organizations and explores local experiences of participation in rural arts actions by nonprofit organization networks. The findings indicate that (1) the US has formed a hierarchical national-regional-local network system of nonprofit arts organizations. (2) The network of nonprofit arts organizations has accumulated experience promoting rural arts, mainly in terms of using rural cultural assets, fostering creative rural people, and creating creative rural places. On that basis, this study proposes a model comprising rural creative assets, people, and places to explore how arts and culture-led creative capital gives rise to creative development and economic prosperity in rural America. This study also offers empirical evidence of the power of global social organizations to collaborate and participate in the promotion of rural prosperity and development.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-16DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103475
Tingting Yu , Hong Leng , Qing Yuan , Ziqing Yuan
Rural vulnerability is used to understand the potential multi-hazard threats and describe the fragile state of rural areas, which engage decision-makers in developing policies and strategies to reduce vulnerability. Existing studies about rural vulnerability focused on the single exogenous disturbance but paid inadequate attention to the multi-disturbances of rural coupled human-environment system. In addition, current studies mainly analyzed the spatial differentiation of vulnerability degree, ignoring the temporal evolution and the internal elements’ relationships of rural systems. In this study, we structured the cognition of rural vulnerability with a framework for understanding coupled human-environment system, evaluated rural vulnerability with the dimensions of exposure, sensitivity and adaptability, and analyzed the driving mechanism based on spatial-temporal heterogeneity. Taking 117 county units in Heilongjiang Province as study cases, we found that (1) rural vulnerability was indeed significant, as the area of county units with extreme or high vulnerability levels accounts for 50.4% of the total area, indicating a trend of high vulnerability in the counties on the north and south sides and low vulnerability in the center. (2) The spatial-temporal heterogeneity of rural vulnerability presented a clustering trend, shifting from a relatively balanced spatial distribution from 2010 to 2013 to a state of vulnerability aggregation at all levels from 2016 to 2019. (3) Rural vulnerability was mainly affected by changes in the principal factors of sensitivity and adaptability, and driving sources mainly generated by human activities, which was largely derived from rural construction activities and government policy guidance on rural regulation. Based on the results, we classified county units into different rural vulnerability types, put forward a rural resilience planning mode of “General + Special” with planning strategies for each type, which can be used as a reference for rural planning positioning of county and township level land spatial planning in the national territory spatial planning.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-16DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103483
Gabriel Kamundala
This paper explores the organizational dynamics of social relations in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), focusing on the role of mining cooperatives. Drawing on ethnographic research from four week-long visits to Misisi, a key gold site in South Kivu, DRC, in March and April 2022, the study examines the labour regime in ASGM. It highlights how ASGM labour is produced, mobilized and motivated through the socio-economic and cultural frameworks, highlighting mechanisms of labour control and exploitation within the production process. The paper argues that control over ASGM labour power and its exploitation is exerted by a complex interplay of political, economic, and customary institutions, with cooperatives playing a central role in this dynamic. It demonstrates that the current cooperative structures in Misisi derive from both the transition from traditional authority and political ties to resource control, as well as the current formalization process of ASM in Eastern DRC. These cooperatives blur the lines between cooperative and capitalist modes of production, thereby facilitating differentiation, segmentation, and stratification within the gold production chain. This structure not only enables the capture of labour value, but also promotes capital accumulation. The conclusion discusses how this ambiguity may challenge the formalization of artisanal gold labour.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103478
Line Lindgaard Andersen , Can-Seng Ooi , Merete Schmidt
Market access is important to driving innovation, but issues related to market access are rarely addressed in the literature on innovation in peripheral areas. A few recent studies have however advocated for more empirical research on this topic, and to add context and depth to current innovation arguments and theories relevant to rural places. Based on a case study in the Cradle Coast region of Tasmania, Australia, we highlight several significant issues and propose an eclectic model for understanding innovation and market access. We argue that while rural regions can certainly be innovative, innovations generally do not reach large markets, but firms are able to engage in creative strategies to mitigate their limits to market access.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103479
Aurélie Dumont, Julie Ruiz, Stéphane Campeau
This article contributes to the research characterising agri-environmental practices (AEPs) adoption processes. Although the adoption of AEPs by farmers has long been recognised as a process, existing conceptualisations vary significantly and face theoretical and operational limitations that limit the ability of research to accurately describe and understand these processes. In this paper, we propose a new conceptualisation of AEPs adoption processes, supported by psychological theories and data from a longitudinal case study of 20 farmers in Quebec, Canada. We develop an empirically informed operational framework for analysing AEP adoption processes: the Change towards the Integration of Agri-environmental Practices (CIAEP) framework. The CIAEP focuses on the internal processes farmers undergo to integrate AEPs, framing integration as a process involving cognitive, affective, and behavioural changes, including the acceptance of the loss of previous practices. It defines a seven-stage process with associated indicators, ranging from no intention to change to the integration of an AEP into a farming practices system. By including affective dimensions alongside established cognitive and behavioural components, the CIAEP enriches existing conceptualisations of AEP adoption processes. It introduces new stages that explain how farmers decide to commit to adopting AEPs and defines integration as the technical, affective, and cognitive mastery of an AEP, offering a fresh perspective on the concept of adoption. This article outlines the development of the CIAEP framework, its application in the case study, and provides two examples of its use based on partial longitudinal data. Finally, we discuss the benefits, limitations, and research opportunities presented by the CIAEP framework.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103485
Giuseppe Timpanaro, Vera Teresa Foti
To strengthen the resilience of agri-food enterprises in response to the crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, various policy levels have introduced a series of extraordinary fiscal, credit, and financial measures. These measures, however, produced different effects depending on the territory, the type of business, the production sector, the level of professionalism of the entrepreneur, etc. In this context, research was carried out, concentrated in Sicily, a typical semi-arid Mediterranean area with a high rurality index, to understand the impacts of these measures against the economic crisis and suggest possible corrective measures to policymakers. The research has shown that despite the availability and variety of the instruments activated, not all enterprises were able to access the extraordinary measures, with a clear differentiation between micro-small and medium-large enterprises; not only that, but among the enterprises that were granted support, this often served to cover current expenditure (debt), rather than to support the enterprise in the path of approaching new markets or opening up to innovation. Therefore, it is suggested that interventions aimed at safeguarding economic sustainability should be developed so as not to compromise the role that these enterprises play for the territory as guardians of the environment, combating climate change, and supporting food security.
{"title":"Recovery and resilience of rural farms in sicily (Italy): The CoVid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict","authors":"Giuseppe Timpanaro, Vera Teresa Foti","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103485","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103485","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To strengthen the resilience of agri-food enterprises in response to the crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, various policy levels have introduced a series of extraordinary fiscal, credit, and financial measures. These measures, however, produced different effects depending on the territory, the type of business, the production sector, the level of professionalism of the entrepreneur, etc. In this context, research was carried out, concentrated in Sicily, a typical semi-arid Mediterranean area with a high rurality index, to understand the impacts of these measures against the economic crisis and suggest possible corrective measures to policymakers. The research has shown that despite the availability and variety of the instruments activated, not all enterprises were able to access the extraordinary measures, with a clear differentiation between micro-small and medium-large enterprises; not only that, but among the enterprises that were granted support, this often served to cover current expenditure (debt), rather than to support the enterprise in the path of approaching new markets or opening up to innovation. Therefore, it is suggested that interventions aimed at safeguarding economic sustainability should be developed so as not to compromise the role that these enterprises play for the territory as guardians of the environment, combating climate change, and supporting food security.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103485"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103480
Konstadinos Mattas , Christos Staboulis , Efthimia Tsakiridou , Dimitrios Natos , Apostolos Polymeros , Piotr Baranowski , Waldemar Bojar , Obdulia Parra Rivero , Álvaro Ojeda Roldán , Lisa Baldi , Filippo Arfini
The proper functioning and future of rural areas and communities are strictly tied to young people's willingness to be engaged in the farming profession, as farming is an important recourse for vocational rehabilitation of the rural population. The agricultural sector acts as a financial injection to the rural economy and society. In this context, one of the most well devised agricultural policies is young farmers' schemes, aiming at generational renewal in EU rural areas. Since young farmers are the people who directly receive the induced effects of these policies, policy makers have to listen carefully to what “message” young farmers can convey. Nevertheless, after almost four decades of implementing young farmers' schemes, there is still limited information regarding their attitudes, beliefs and perceptions towards the form of the related policy schemes. Using this as a starting point, the present study attempts to identify young farmers' attitudes and beliefs towards the current young farmers' scheme of the Rural Development Program (RDP) with overarching scope to identify the needs of young farmers better and thus inform policy makers about the appropriate policy that should be put forward. Results indicate that the current young farmers' scheme acts as a helpful instrument for a considerable percentage of young farmers. Nevertheless, further streamlining is required to provide incentives, especially to new entrants, to be engaged in the farming profession. Effective policy interventions that will be in line with the actual needs of young farmers could contribute to the direction of the enhancement of the vitality and resilience of the rural systems, and also act towards the prevention of the abandonment process, providing vibrance in rural areas and benefits for the whole economy and society, as well as the ecosystems.
{"title":"Facilitating generational renewal in rural areas by responding to young farmers’ voices: Echoes from the Greek territory","authors":"Konstadinos Mattas , Christos Staboulis , Efthimia Tsakiridou , Dimitrios Natos , Apostolos Polymeros , Piotr Baranowski , Waldemar Bojar , Obdulia Parra Rivero , Álvaro Ojeda Roldán , Lisa Baldi , Filippo Arfini","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103480","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103480","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The proper functioning and future of rural areas and communities are strictly tied to young people's willingness to be engaged in the farming profession, as farming is an important recourse for vocational rehabilitation of the rural population. The agricultural sector acts as a financial injection to the rural economy and society. In this context, one of the most well devised agricultural policies is young farmers' schemes, aiming at generational renewal in EU rural areas. Since young farmers are the people who directly receive the induced effects of these policies, policy makers have to listen carefully to what “message” young farmers can convey. Nevertheless, after almost four decades of implementing young farmers' schemes, there is still limited information regarding their attitudes, beliefs and perceptions towards the form of the related policy schemes. Using this as a starting point, the present study attempts to identify young farmers' attitudes and beliefs towards the current young farmers' scheme of the Rural Development Program (RDP) with overarching scope to identify the needs of young farmers better and thus inform policy makers about the appropriate policy that should be put forward. Results indicate that the current young farmers' scheme acts as a helpful instrument for a considerable percentage of young farmers. Nevertheless, further streamlining is required to provide incentives, especially to new entrants, to be engaged in the farming profession. Effective policy interventions that will be in line with the actual needs of young farmers could contribute to the direction of the enhancement of the vitality and resilience of the rural systems, and also act towards the prevention of the abandonment process, providing vibrance in rural areas and benefits for the whole economy and society, as well as the ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103480"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103473
Zhiwei Luo , Ning An , Luhua Li , Min Wang
The rural revitalization experience in China is being transformed by the village basketball association (CunBA), an event embedded in rural everyday practices or strategically designed to shape the perception of rural space. As this event integrates into daily rural life, it has the potential to alter both rural space and rurality itself. Using the theoretical framwork of performing rurality and employing Actor Network Theory (ANT) as an analytical tool, this paper examines the process and effects of rurality transformation as various actors, including the state and digital platform users, become part of this network. Through the analysis of semi-structured interviews and netnography data, the study reveals that the reconstruction of rurality is influenced by the interactions within a heterogeneous actor network. It finds that rurality is enacted within a dynamically equilibrated network and that the meaning and outcomes of rurality are redefined through the interactions between human and non-human actors and the evolving network. By focusing on rural China, this paper aims to contextualize the concept of “performing rurality” and further explore its theoretical issues in a digital context. The findings indicate that rural revitalization in China increasingly depends on digital platforms to perform rurality. This phenomenon must be understood within the context of “post-rurality” and the broader socio-cultural processes behind it in rural China.
{"title":"How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China","authors":"Zhiwei Luo , Ning An , Luhua Li , Min Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103473","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103473","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rural revitalization experience in China is being transformed by the village basketball association (CunBA), an event embedded in rural everyday practices or strategically designed to shape the perception of rural space. As this event integrates into daily rural life, it has the potential to alter both rural space and rurality itself. Using the theoretical framwork of performing rurality and employing Actor Network Theory (ANT) as an analytical tool, this paper examines the process and effects of rurality transformation as various actors, including the state and digital platform users, become part of this network. Through the analysis of semi-structured interviews and netnography data, the study reveals that the reconstruction of rurality is influenced by the interactions within a heterogeneous actor network. It finds that rurality is enacted within a dynamically equilibrated network and that the meaning and outcomes of rurality are redefined through the interactions between human and non-human actors and the evolving network. By focusing on rural China, this paper aims to contextualize the concept of “performing rurality” and further explore its theoretical issues in a digital context. The findings indicate that rural revitalization in China increasingly depends on digital platforms to perform rurality. This phenomenon must be understood within the context of “post-rurality” and the broader socio-cultural processes behind it in rural China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103473"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103472
Danny Fernando Sandoval Yate, Natalia Triana Ángel, Stefan Burkart
Cattle farming is one of the main agricultural activities in Colombia, but its mainly extensive nature generates significant social and environmental impacts, such as land grabbing, agricultural frontier expansion, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and deforestation. To transform cattle systems towards sustainability, the Policy Guidelines for Sustainable Cattle 2022–2050 (LPGBS) were launched in 2022, resulting from conversations between sector institutions and the national government. Although the LPGBS are proposed as the roadmap for cattle farming in the coming decades, their implementation has faced delays and raised doubts among the involved institutions. This research analyzes the current state of the LPGBS to identify difficulties and determine strategies that promote sustainability in cattle systems by building capacities. The research is based on a mixed-methods approach and contains a literature review on the evaluation of public policies in the cattle sector, complemented by 26 key-informant interviews with experts from public and private institutions involved in developing the LPGBS. These interviews provided key perspectives and practical experiences to understand current difficulties in the implementation of the LPGBS and identify the capacities needed to achieve the planned transition to sustainable cattle farming. Results reveal several difficulties in the LPGBS design stage, including institutional weakness, low governmental participation, and lack of trust among stakeholders. However, important progress was made, such as the construction of social, environmental, and productive sustainability criteria, the consolidation of the sustainability approach at the cattle landscape level, and regional participation. The capacities necessary to drive the implementation of the LPGBS include strengthening rural extension programs, access to financing, and the implementation of a traceability system for monitoring and evaluation. These findings highlight the importance of evaluating policies at early stages to provide crucial information for decision-makers and public policy formulators to correct and improve implementation processes.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103419
Tingting Fang , Yihu Zhou , Lei Wang , Dahong Shi , Xuejun Duan
Over the last three decades, farmland transfers in rural China have significantly increased. Despite this rise, informal farmland transfers within social networks continue to be common in many villages, underscoring the need for a more nuanced understanding of their determinants. Existing literature extensively explores the influence of social networks on farmland transfers, it often overlooks the distinction between formal and informal transactions and primarily focuses on binary relationships. Limited data availability and constraints in econometric methodology have impeded quantitative estimation of the impact of farmers’ interactions on informal farmland transfers at the local levels. To address this issue, we developed a framework that integrates embeddedness theory and social interaction theory to uncover the mechanism between multiplex relationship and informal farmland transfers from a network perspective. Using survey data collected from all 341 households in a village in central China, we constructed both relationship networks and informal farmland transfer network among peasant households. We then employed the logistic regression quadratic assignment procedure (LRQAP) to quantify the impact of multiplex relationships and network structures on informal farmland transfers. The results reveal a significant positive correlation between multiplex relationships and informal farmland transfer behaviors among peasant households. Specifically, households are more likely to engage in informal farmland transfer through relationships characterized by emotional connections and reciprocal exchanges, rather than through relationships based on cooperative support. Furthermore, our findings indicate that multiplex relationships influence informal farmland transfer behaviors through network structure effects, such as reciprocity and preferential attachment, rather than through transitivity. These results highlight the importance of leveraging multiplex relationships to facilitate and regulate informal farmland transfers amid rural decline and land use change.
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