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Empowerment unveiled: Gender dynamics and the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions among ethnic minority groups in northern Vietnam 赋权揭晓：性别动态和营养敏感农业干预在越南北部少数民族群体的影响

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103948

Lan Thuy T. Nguyen , Marrit van den Berg , TjeerdJan Stomph , Deborah Nabuuma , Berber Kramer

Gender equality and women's empowerment are key global agendas, yet women often face marginalization compared to men. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions (NSAs) often aim to benefit women but their impacts on women's empowerment remain unclear. This study focuses on: 1) assessing the empowerment levels of women and men from three ethnic minorities in rural northern Vietnam (Thai, H'Mong and Dao) with the Project-level women's empowerment in agriculture index (Pro-WEAI); 2) examining the potential of NSA to improve women's empowerment during COVID-19 pandemic; and 3) applying an intersectional lens by analyzing how empowerment and treatment effects vary by ethnic subgroups. We conducted a Randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving around 600 rural households from 36 clusters that were randomly assigned to one of the following three treatment arms: receiving agriculture and nutrition training; receiving seed provision on top of the training; and a control group. We found that both men and women experienced disempowerment, due to ethnicity and systemic ethnical marginalization. While no significant gender discrimination in resource access was found, women faced limited mobility, overburdened workload and diminished agencies. Empowerment experiences varied across ethnicities. The NSAs improved women's mobility and group membership, yet carried different implications across ethnicities, potentially due to the interaction between the intervention, initial contextual conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, NSAs alone cannot achieve structural empowerment. Meaningful and lasting empowerment requires integrated approaches that address interconnected social, political, and cultural factors.

性别平等和增强妇女权能是关键的全球议程，但与男性相比，女性往往面临边缘化。营养敏感型农业干预措施往往旨在使妇女受益，但其对赋予妇女权力的影响尚不清楚。本研究的重点是：1)用项目级农业妇女赋权指数（Pro-WEAI）评估越南北部农村三个少数民族（泰国、苗族和岛族）妇女和男子的赋权水平；2)研究国家安全局在COVID-19大流行期间改善妇女赋权的潜力；3)运用交叉视角，分析不同族群间赋权和治疗效果的差异。我们进行了一项随机对照试验（RCT），涉及来自36个分组的约600个农村家庭，这些家庭被随机分配到以下三个治疗组之一：接受农业和营养培训；在培训的基础上接受种子供应；还有一个对照组。我们发现，由于种族和系统性的种族边缘化，男性和女性都经历了权力剥夺。虽然在获得资源方面没有发现明显的性别歧视，但妇女的流动性有限，工作量过重，机构减少。赋予权力的经历因种族而异。nssa改善了女性的流动性和群体成员资格，但在不同种族之间产生了不同的影响，这可能是由于干预措施、初始背景条件和COVID-19大流行之间的相互作用。然而，仅靠nsa无法实现结构性赋权。有意义和持久的赋权需要综合处理相互关联的社会、政治和文化因素。

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Revitalizing rural areas: A review of vivacity indicators and the potential of generative AI in rural development analysis 乡村振兴：活力指标综述及生成式人工智能在乡村发展分析中的潜力

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103957

Emilio Hernández-López, Laura Martínez-Carrasco, Margarita Brugarolas

Over the past several decades, rural areas in Spain and the European Union have experienced progressive population decline that has fostered negative discourse and generated a loss of interest among the population, exacerbating these issues. Therefore, it is essential to promote a new and optimistic narrative that highlights the potential of rural areas and its present and future development possibilities to provide a positive image of rural territories. This concept, which we have termed 'vivacity', reflects the level of opportunities for inhabitants to achieve a sustainable future that encourages their settlement in rural areas and the development of their lives without location-related difficulties. This study aims to identify the most suitable rural development indicators for measuring the vivacity of rural territories. Therefore, a qualitative analysis of the literature on rural development indicators was conducted, and the potential of a generative artificial intelligence tool (ChatGPT 4) is examined to assist researchers in conducting such analysis. The study's findings indicate that economic and social wellbeing indicators are relevant to the dynamism or vivacity of rural territories. Furthermore, ChatGPT currently does not meet the standards of human analysts although it can facilitate directed analysis with close scrutiny of the results.

在过去的几十年里，西班牙和欧盟的农村地区经历了人口的逐渐减少，这助长了负面的话语，并使人口失去了兴趣，加剧了这些问题。因此，必须提倡一种新的和乐观的叙述，突出农村地区的潜力及其目前和未来的发展可能性，以提供农村地区的积极形象。这个概念，我们称之为“活力”，反映了居民实现可持续未来的机会水平，鼓励他们在农村地区定居，并在没有与位置相关的困难的情况下发展他们的生活。本研究旨在确定最适合衡量农村地区活力的农村发展指标。因此，我们对农村发展指标的文献进行了定性分析，并研究了生成式人工智能工具（ChatGPT 4）的潜力，以协助研究人员进行此类分析。研究结果表明，经济和社会福利指标与农村地区的活力或活力有关。此外，ChatGPT目前不符合人类分析师的标准，尽管它可以通过对结果的密切审查来促进直接分析。

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Frontier-making and Campesino resistance in the Northern Colombian Amazon 哥伦比亚北部亚马逊地区的拓荒与抵抗

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103955

Francesca Letizia Maetzke , Irene Vélez-Torres , Fabian Méndez-Paz

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Between illicit economies and having a dream: Exploring rural youth aspirations and life-courses in a rural municipality in Colombia 在非法经济和拥有梦想之间：探索哥伦比亚农村城市农村青年的愿望和人生历程

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103944

Margarita Fontecha, Silvia Sarapura-Escobar, Ryan Gibson

Rural youth's aspirations and life-courses are shaped by complex interplays of external (social, economic, historical) and internal (agency-driven) factors. In rural Colombia, characterized by illicit economic pressures and a legacy of armed conflict, structural realities may constrain youth's ability to achieve transformative life trajectories. This study investigates how these influence youths' life-course decision making-in a remote village. The Possible Selves and intersectionality theories guided the study by addressing overlapping social identities and power structures that shape youth's lived experiences. Employing a participatory photovoice initiative, participants led data interpretation and thematic analysis; five themes emerged: youth, ecosystem, entrepreneurism, agriculture and livestock production, and effort and joy. Findings illustrate a tension between youth aspirations—characterized by hopes for stability, education, and community engagement—and the structural constraints imposed by marginalizing economic systems and a history of internal conflict. Neoliberal and illicit economic frameworks, coupled with conflict legacies, undermine rural youth agency and curtail opportunities for meaningful participation. Under these conditions, aspirations tend toward survival oriented -goals rather than transformative social change, perpetuating cycles of poverty and exclusion. To foster rural youth's aspirations, interventions must strengthen agency through improved access to quality education and inclusive participation in decision-making- processes.

农村青年的抱负和人生历程受到外部（社会、经济、历史）和内部（机构驱动）因素复杂的相互作用的影响。在以非法经济压力和武装冲突遗留问题为特征的哥伦比亚农村，结构性现实可能限制青年实现转型生活轨迹的能力。本研究探讨这些因素如何影响一个偏远村庄的青少年的生命历程决策。“可能自我”理论和交叉性理论通过解决影响青年生活经历的重叠社会身份和权力结构来指导研究。采用参与式photovoice倡议，参与者主导数据解释和专题分析；五个主题出现了：青年、生态系统、创业精神、农业和畜牧业生产、努力和快乐。调查结果表明，年轻人的愿望（以希望稳定、教育和社区参与为特征）与边缘化经济体系和内部冲突历史所造成的结构性限制之间存在紧张关系。新自由主义和非法经济框架，加上冲突遗留问题，削弱了农村青年的能动性，减少了有意义参与的机会。在这种情况下，人们的愿望往往是面向生存的目标，而不是变革性的社会变革，从而使贫穷和排斥的循环永久化。为了促进农村青年的愿望，干预措施必须通过改善获得优质教育的机会和包容性参与决策进程来加强能动性。

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Towards improved identification of residential land vulnerable to abandonment in rural China: A case study using an integration approach of machine learning techniques 基于机器学习技术的中国农村宅基地撂荒识别研究

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103946

Gaobing Xing , Guangqing Chi , Yang Xu , Qiuping Bai , Huan Wang , Feng Xu

In the face of economic and environmental challenges, farmers in mountainous regions of China are increasingly willing to move to urban areas, leaving their rural residential land (RRL) permanently abandoned. Early and comprehensive identification of these vulnerable RRLs is crucial for rural land management and development planning. Given the advantages of machine learning techniques in predicting land use—owing to their efficiency and computational performance—this study aims to identify RRLs with a higher probability of abandonment in a more comprehensive and accurate manner by introducing multiple machine learning techniques and optimization strategies. Using various combinations of sampling strategies and balancing methods, the study derived the optimal technique–method–strategy combinations, compared their performance through model training and validation, and ultimately identified RRLs vulnerable to abandonment in Fang County, Hubei Province, China. The results show that the model using the random forest technique with a by-grid sampling strategy, along with both random oversampling and undersampling methods, achieved the highest accuracy (88.82 %). The model using the classification and regression tree (CART) technique with bagging, along with the same sampling strategy and methods, achieved a slightly lower accuracy (88.51 %). In contrast, models using CART with a by-grid sampling strategy and linear support vector machine with the same sampling strategy demonstrated even lower accuracy (76.84 %). Vulnerable RRLs identified through majority voting across multiple models were concentrated in the northeastern, midwestern, and southwestern regions of Fang County. Variable importance analysis revealed that parcel area, terrain, and accessibility exerted the greatest influence on sustainable RRL use. This study proposes a new protocol for predicting RRL use; its findings, along with future rural studies, can contribute to optimizing rural lands.

面对经济和环境的挑战，中国山区的农民越来越愿意迁移到城市地区，使他们的农村宅基地（RRL）永久地被遗弃。及早和全面地识别这些脆弱的土地保留区对农村土地管理和发展规划至关重要。鉴于机器学习技术在预测土地利用方面的优势（由于其效率和计算性能），本研究旨在通过引入多种机器学习技术和优化策略，以更全面和准确的方式识别具有更高放弃概率的rrl。通过多种采样策略和平衡方法的组合，得出了最优的技术-方法-策略组合，并通过模型训练和验证对其性能进行了比较，最终确定了湖北省方县易被遗弃的RRLs。结果表明，采用随机森林技术和逐网格采样策略以及随机过采样和欠采样方法的模型达到了最高的准确率（88.82%）。采用分类与回归树（CART）技术和套袋方法的模型，在相同的采样策略和方法下，准确率略低（88.51%）。相比之下，采用逐网格采样策略的CART模型和采用相同采样策略的线性支持向量机模型的准确率更低（76.84%）。通过多模型多数投票确定的脆弱RRLs集中在方县东北部、中西部和西南部地区。变量重要性分析表明，地块面积、地形和可达性对土地资源的可持续利用影响最大。本研究提出了一种预测RRL使用的新方案；它的发现，以及未来的农村研究，可以有助于优化农村土地。

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‘The sea is the only means of feeding’: Coping strategies in Ghanaian fishing communities during the closed season “海洋是唯一的食物来源”：加纳渔业社区在禁渔期的应对策略

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103954

Katherine V. Gough , Thilde Langevang , Samuel K.M. Agblorti

Seasonality is a core aspect of life in West African artisanal fishing communities, with fisherfolk having long adapted to bumper and lean fishing seasons. In an attempt to tackle dwindling fish stocks, however, the Government of Ghana introduced a month-long closed fishing season. This paper explores the ways in which fishing communities, which are accustomed to seasonal change, make sense of and cope with the external imposition of a closed season. Through bringing a livelihoods approach together with a seasonal cultures approach, we examine the impact of the closed season on men and women working in artisanal fishing and in alternative livelihoods, and analyse their coping strategies before, during and after the closed season. Our findings show how numerous coping strategies are adopted including saving, taking out loans, storing fish, engaging in alternative income-generating activities, reducing food intake, and migrating, however, many of these are only available to more resource-rich households. Despite a seasonal culture being integral to fishing livelihoods, the external imposition of a closed season severely disrupts their rhythmic patterns and results in household assets changing abruptly. This creates serious challenges for livelihood adaptation and brings considerable hardship not only to fisherfolk but all community members. We argue for the importance of listening to the voices of fisherfolk and integrating their indigenous knowledge with scientific knowledge when devising artisanal fishing policies. The imposition of a closed season alone will not resolve the challenges facing fishing communities, rather sustained attempts to eliminate illegal fishing practices by both artisanal and commercial fishing are required for the sector to be sustainable.

季节性是西非手工渔业社区生活的一个核心方面，渔民们早已适应了丰饶和贫瘠的捕鱼季节。然而，为了解决鱼类资源减少的问题，加纳政府实行了为期一个月的休渔期。本文探讨了习惯于季节变化的渔业社区如何理解并应对外部强加的封闭季节。通过将生计方法与季节性文化方法结合起来，我们研究了休渔期对从事手工捕鱼和其他生计的男性和女性的影响，并分析了他们在休渔期之前、期间和之后的应对策略。我们的研究结果表明，人们采取了多种应对策略，包括储蓄、贷款、储存鱼类、从事其他创收活动、减少食物摄入量和迁徙。然而，其中许多策略只有资源更丰富的家庭才能采用。尽管季节性文化是渔业生计不可或缺的一部分，但外部强加的闭季严重扰乱了他们的节奏模式，并导致家庭资产突然变化。这给生计适应带来了严重挑战，不仅给渔民，而且给所有社区成员带来了相当大的困难。我们认为，在制定手工捕鱼政策时，倾听渔民的声音并将他们的土著知识与科学知识相结合是非常重要的。仅仅实行禁渔期并不能解决渔业社区面临的挑战，而是需要持续努力消除手工和商业捕鱼的非法捕鱼做法，使该部门具有可持续性。

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An analysis of population movements to characterize China's differentiated countryside: The case of Chengdu 中国农村分化特征的人口流动分析——以成都为例

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103943

Lin Tian , Xuchen Zhang , David Shaw , Peng Fu

Rural China is undergoing significant spatial restructuring. However, existing research on rural spatial organization remains limited, posing challenges to effective revitalization policy-making. This study helps to fill this gap by extending the application of mobile phone signaling data—commonly used in urban contexts—to rural areas. Based on population movement linkages identified by mobile phone signaling data, rural areas around Chengdu were analyzed within a macro-metropolitan scope to explore spatial organizational patterns of both internal and external connections. The results show that: firstly, internal linkages in rural areas are relatively flat and uniform, while external linkages are stronger and more concentrated towards county and city centres. Secondly, using community detection algorithms, clusters with differentiated travel patterns are identified. Thirdly, K-means clustering methods further categorize these clusters into four types: “strong urban linkage,” “strong township concentrated,” “township concentrated,” and “outward rurality.” These clusters and their types do not always coincide with administrative boundaries or official rural planning units. Finally, tailored development strategies are proposed for each cluster type, taking into account the maximisation of the clusters’ own distinctiveness and their integration into the macro-level development of the metropolitan area. This study provides a valuable analytical framework for contiguous rural planning and other rural areas in similar transformation contexts.

中国农村正在经历重大的空间重构。然而，现有的关于乡村空间组织的研究仍然有限，这对有效的乡村振兴政策提出了挑战。本研究通过将移动电话信号数据（通常用于城市环境）的应用扩展到农村地区，帮助填补了这一空白。基于手机信令数据识别的人口流动联系，以成都周边农村为研究对象，在城市宏观范围内分析其内部和外部联系的空间组织模式。结果表明：第一，农村地区的内部联系相对平坦和统一，而外部联系更强，更集中于县市中心。其次，利用社区检测算法，识别出具有差异化出行模式的聚类；第三，k均值聚类方法进一步将这些集群划分为四种类型：“强城市联动”、“强乡镇集中”、“乡镇集中”和“外向型农村”。这些集群及其类型并不总是与行政边界或官方农村规划单位一致。最后，针对每一种集群类型提出了有针对性的发展策略，考虑到集群自身特色的最大化，并将其融入大都市圈的宏观发展。这项研究为邻近农村规划和其他类似转型背景下的农村地区提供了一个有价值的分析框架。

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Digital rurality: A three-fold model and research agenda 数字农村：一个三重模式和研究议程

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103958

Huiyan He, Agnieszka Leszczynski

Rural spaces are increasingly shaped by the pervasive influence of digital technologies, which are integral to their constitution, experience, and practices. This article distills how the forces of digitality inflect contemporary conceptualizations of rurality by iterating Halfacree's (2006, 2007) model of rural space to account for the emergence of what we term digital rurality. We advance a threefold heuristic of digital rurality as comprised of digital rural localities, formal representations of the digital rural, and everyday lives of the digital rural. Mobilizing this framework, we identify that digital rural spatialities are produced via the transformation of socio-spatial relations within rural localities; the representation of rural spaces by dominant actors staking claims about digital technologies; and everyday engagements with rural spaces mediated via digital technologies. We argue that an emergent digital ruralities research agenda must examine the power relations shaping digital ruralities, and geographic differences in how digital ruralities manifest between the Global North and South.

农村空间日益受到数字技术无处不在的影响，数字技术已成为农村的构成、经验和实践的组成部分。本文通过迭代Halfacree（2006, 2007）的乡村空间模型，提炼出数字化力量如何影响当代乡村性的概念，以解释我们所谓的数字乡村性的出现。我们提出了数字农村的三重启发式，包括数字农村地区、数字农村的正式代表和数字农村的日常生活。通过这一框架，我们确定数字农村空间是通过农村地区社会空间关系的转变而产生的；对数字技术提出主张的主导行为体对农村空间的表现；以及通过数字技术媒介与乡村空间的日常接触。我们认为，新兴的数字乡村研究议程必须研究塑造数字乡村的权力关系，以及全球南北之间数字乡村表现方式的地理差异。

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Why Landless Workers' Movement wants more than farmers’ markets: the scaling up of agroecology and social justice in Brazil 为什么无地工人运动想要的不仅仅是农民市场：在巴西扩大农业生态和社会正义

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103956

Jennifer Tanaka , Alessandro Scuderi , Donatella Privitera

This paper critically examines farmers' markets (FMs) in politically contested settings in Brazil. Through a case study of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST – Landless Workers' Movement), the research explores how Brazil's largest rural social movement pursues FMs as politically driven retail spaces through its Armazém do Campo network. Drawing on 144 interview excerpts from 99 news pages published on the MST's official website between July 2016 and May 2025, the analysis reveals a significant reconfiguration of the FMs model, which has emerged not under conditions of state support, but within politically hostile contexts marked by conservative administrations, as observed in Brazil and elsewhere. MST leaders and landless workers describe these spaces as “refuges” for marginalised groups and as “embassies” in cities representing agrarian interests. The findings demonstrate how consumers collectively assume responsibility for driving social change, thereby advancing what we conceptualise as mass food political consumerism – a form that democratises access by reclaiming scaling-up processes as tools to counter exclusionary dynamics. As a grassroots initiative of resistance, innovation, and solidarity, Armazém do Campo adds value to food by infusing FMs with the agendas of Global South movements.

本文批判性地考察了巴西政治竞争环境中的农贸市场（FMs）。通过对无地工人运动（MST——Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra）的案例研究，本研究探讨了巴西最大的农村社会运动是如何通过其armazsamam do Campo网络将FMs作为政治驱动的零售空间。根据2016年7月至2025年5月期间MST官方网站上发布的99个新闻页面中的144个采访摘录，分析揭示了FMs模式的重大重新配置，这种模式不是在国家支持的条件下出现的，而是在以保守政府为特征的政治敌对背景下出现的，正如在巴西和其他地方观察到的那样。MST领导人和无地工人将这些空间描述为边缘化群体的“避难所”，以及代表农业利益的城市“大使馆”。研究结果表明，消费者如何共同承担起推动社会变革的责任，从而推进我们所定义的大众食品政治消费主义——一种通过重新利用扩大规模的过程作为对抗排他性动力的工具，使获取民主化的形式。作为一项抵抗、创新和团结的草根倡议，armazsamam do Campo通过向FMs注入全球南方运动的议程，为食品增加了价值。

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Understanding resilience capacities in rural AGRO-Industries: Evidence from Spanish wineries 理解农村农业产业的恢复能力：来自西班牙酒庄的证据

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103951

Juan Ferrer , Barbara Soriano , Vicente Pinilla , Raul Serrano , Silvia Abella-Garcés

Spanish wineries, deeply rooted in rural territories, are increasingly exposed to overlapping economic, environmental, and social challenges—ranging from declining consumption and rising production costs to labor shortages and climate-induced disruptions. As key actors in rural economies, their resilience is critical not only for their own sustainability but also for the vitality of the regions they support. This study analyzes the resilience capacities of 411 Spanish wineries, using the three-dimensional framework of robustness, adaptability, and transformability. Through survey data and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) modeling, we examine how internal attributes—such as size, structure, innovation, and rural commitment—interact with perceived external challenges to shape strategic responses. Results show that robustness is reinforced by reliance on local resources but constrained by diversification and rural engagement. Conversely, adaptability and transformability are enhanced by diversity, environmental awareness, and rural involvement, although traditional assumptions about innovation and networks show limited impact. These findings offer new insights into the strategic behavior of rural agro-industries under pressure and highlight the need for nuanced policy approaches that support both structural stability and adaptive change in the face of increasing uncertainty.

西班牙的酒庄深深扎根于农村地区，越来越多地面临着经济、环境和社会的多重挑战——从消费下降、生产成本上升到劳动力短缺和气候变化导致的中断。作为农村经济的关键参与者，他们的韧性不仅对自身的可持续性至关重要，而且对其所支持地区的活力也至关重要。本研究采用稳健性、适应性和可变革性的三维框架，分析了411家西班牙酒庄的弹性能力。通过调查数据和普通最小二乘（OLS）模型，我们研究了内部属性（如规模、结构、创新和农村承诺）如何与感知到的外部挑战相互作用，从而形成战略反应。结果表明，对当地资源的依赖加强了稳健性，但受到多样化和农村参与的制约。相反，尽管关于创新和网络的传统假设影响有限，但多样性、环境意识和农村参与却增强了适应性和可变革性。这些发现为了解农村涉农产业在压力下的战略行为提供了新的见解，并强调需要采取细致入微的政策方法，既支持结构稳定，又支持面对日益增加的不确定性的适应性变化。

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