Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103950
Maria Senftl, Klara Fischer
There is growing interest in how farming practices can mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon and restoring soil health – known as carbon farming. Ultimately, the success of the carbon farming market depends on attracting farmers willing to enrol and adopt these practices. As of yet, we know little about the factors that stimulate or hinder farmer engagement with the carbon farming market. This paper contributes to filling this gap through a study of the factors that shape South African large scale farmers' narratives of the future and how such narratives impact farmers' perspectives on emerging carbon farming initiatives. Using semi-structured interviews with ten farmers, applying and modifying Vignoli et al.’s (2020) narrative framework, we examine farmers' future narratives in the South African thicket biome of the Eastern Cape province. Three future narratives are identified: ‘keep fighting and innovate the business’, ‘stop fighting but keep the farm’ and ‘the future of the family farm (probably) ends with me’. Experiences, constraints, expectations and aspirations shape these narratives. Additionally, the study's findings show that environmental factors significantly impact future narratives and, consequently, the adoption of carbon farming practices. This study contributes to understanding how ecological awareness together with economic and social factors can drive agricultural decision-making.
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Farmland abandonment is a growing concern, with labour productivity playing a central role. Using FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) data (2010–2022), segmented by type of farming, macro-area, and economic size, this study analyses Italian farm labour productivity, both gross and net of EU subsidies. Results show that more than one third of Italian farms, representing over 2 million hectares of Utilised Agricultural Area, present great difficulties in achieving levels of value added per worker adequate to sustain their activity. Olive farms are the most exposed, with more than half at risk of abandonment, particularly medium-sized farms in the South and Islands. While viticulture shows moderate resilience, arable farms have experienced persistent declines in real productivity, largely due to reduced subsidies. Convergence analysis highlights widening structural disparities, particularly between the Centre and the South. These findings stress the urgent need for a reflection on current strategies addressing the issue of farm abandonment.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103952
Arnaud Z. Dragicevic , Jean-Philippe Terreaux
Agroforestry has been promoted as a sustainable land-use practice that combines trees and crops to optimize productivity and enhance ecosystem services. However, its long-term benefits are subject to uncertainties. This paper examines the conditions under which agroforestry remains competitive compared to conventional agriculture and forestry, highlighting how the integration of agroforestry can also limit adaptability in the face of environmental and economic change. Using a dynamic model, we explore the trade-offs between agroforestry and conventional land-use specialization, incorporating the concept of quasi-option value to underscore the importance of maintaining flexibility in decision-making under uncertainty. Our analysis of a hypothetical farm offers a framework for evaluating strategic choices under uncertainty across context-dependent agronomic and market conditions, providing a transparent assessment of when agroforestry is competitive and when it is not. Beyond sensitivity exploration, we provide a calibration-and-validation template with explicit data inputs so that practitioners can instantiate the model on specific farms or regions and assess whether agroforestry is adoption-worthy under their local conditions.
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In a world where wine markets are losing ground, the natural wine segment appears healthy and growing, gaining an increasing acceptance among consumers, the media and within wineries product lines. This dynamic category is broadly understood as wine crafted from organic or biodynamic grapes, made with minimal cellar intervention and no additives, with the rare exception of small sulfite doses. However, despite its growth and relevance for rural economies linked to viticulture, natural wine remains a largely debated product category, lacking universally agreed-upon standards or unified third-party certifications. This study tackles the crucial lack of definition clarity and disputes among producers regarding what constitutes natural wine and who genuinely meets the standards to be recognized as a natural winemaker by relying on wine producers' self-stated adscription to natural winemaking. We address producer profiles and motivations within this emerging agricultural niche. Using survey responses from 514 wine producers in six European countries, we first identify key socio-economic differences between natural wine producers and non-producers. Second, we analyze the key factors of producers’ behavior towards natural wine production by applying a logistic regression model. Finally, applying a Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), we examine the behavioral factors influencing non-producers' intention to adopt natural wine production. The findings indicate that the intention to produce natural wine is primarily associated with pre-existing attitude mediated by subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. Furthermore, our results highlight divergent opinions among producers and non-producers concerning the motivations for natural wine production. These comprehensive insights are vital for designing effective institutional rural policies and management measures to foster the sustainable growth and economic viability of this unique viticulture segment in rural areas.
{"title":"Who Produces Natural Wine (and Who Would Like To)?","authors":"Magalie Dubois , Efi Vasileiou , Lara Agnoli , Nikolaos Georgantzis , Jean-Marie Cardebat , Jeremiás Máté Balogh , Raúl Compés Lopez , Joao Fernandes Rebelo , Luca Rossetto","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a world where wine markets are losing ground, the natural wine segment appears healthy and growing, gaining an increasing acceptance among consumers, the media and within wineries product lines. This dynamic category is broadly understood as wine crafted from organic or biodynamic grapes, made with minimal cellar intervention and no additives, with the rare exception of small sulfite doses. However, despite its growth and relevance for rural economies linked to viticulture, natural wine remains a largely debated product category, lacking universally agreed-upon standards or unified third-party certifications. This study tackles the crucial lack of definition clarity and disputes among producers regarding what constitutes natural wine and who genuinely meets the standards to be recognized as a natural winemaker by relying on wine producers' self-stated adscription to natural winemaking. We address producer profiles and motivations within this emerging agricultural niche. Using survey responses from 514 wine producers in six European countries, we first identify key socio-economic differences between natural wine producers and non-producers. Second, we analyze the key factors of producers’ behavior towards natural wine production by applying a logistic regression model. Finally, applying a Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), we examine the behavioral factors influencing non-producers' intention to adopt natural wine production. The findings indicate that the intention to produce natural wine is primarily associated with pre-existing attitude mediated by subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. Furthermore, our results highlight divergent opinions among producers and non-producers concerning the motivations for natural wine production. These comprehensive insights are vital for designing effective institutional rural policies and management measures to foster the sustainable growth and economic viability of this unique viticulture segment in rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103935"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614575","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 : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103940
Jane C. Gross, Ashley Colby, McKenzie F. Johnson, Chloe B. Wardropper
Public and private sectors are developing initiatives for carbon capture to mitigate climate change and meet net-zero emissions pledges. Capital markets facilitating the trading of credits for soil organic carbon have the potential to sequester carbon and provide monetary benefits to farmers, but critics contend this approach could exacerbate inequalities among farmers. We use recognition and distributive justice frames to analyze farmer perceptions of access and outcomes in voluntary carbon markets. Drawing on interviews with thirty farmers in the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin) and fourteen carbon market project developers, we argue many carbon credit programs reinforce perceived inequities within the US agricultural system and between on-farm and off-farm actors. Our respondents indicated carbon market actors tend to recognize large-scale, highly capitalized, conventional corn and soybean operations managed by white men, limiting market access for marginalized farmers and small farms. Exclusion of a range of farmers is perceived to perpetuate distributive injustice as carbon markets channel financial benefits to a narrow range of “winners” in the energy transition. Farmers specifically identified the additionality requirement as the greatest barrier to market access for small and marginalized farmers. Ultimately, farmers contend that creating more equitable carbon markets requires first and foremost recognizing the diversity of farmer identities and farm types.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103938
Morgane Lambert , Christina Kägi , Antoine Guisan , Blaise Petitpierre , Sylvain Aubry
The genetic diversity of grassland species is increasingly at risk due to agricultural intensification, habitat fragmentation, and climate change, which increase the vulnerability of ecosystems to pests and diseases. Protecting this diversity is critical for the resilience of agricultural systems, yet current agri-environmental schemes often struggle to halt genetic erosion. Their effectiveness depends not only on policy design but also on farmers’ willingness and motivation to participate.
This study investigates the factors shaping farmers’ participation in a newly established voluntary scheme in Switzerland, the “in situ program,” which aims to conserve the genetic diversity of fodder plants and their wild relatives on semi-intensive grasslands. Drawing on national eco-geographical data combined with an online farmer survey, we analysed participation patterns through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Our results show that participating farms are typically larger, located at higher altitudes, and more likely to hold organic certification. Beyond structural factors, voluntary participation fostered intrinsic motivation and enhanced farmers’ appreciation of their role in conserving agrobiodiversity.
We conclude that successful agro-environmental policies must recognize farmers as active custodians of genetic resources and support their engagement through schemes that combine ecological objectives with the values and motivations of farming communities.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103937
Dandan Liu , Guangrui Fan
This paper examines how rural Chinese housewife creators on Douyin perform what we term calibrated modesty under a platformed urban gaze. We conceptualize the platformed urban gaze as a gendered assemblage stabilized by visibility moderation, audience cueing, and local respectability sanctions, which privileges calibrated modesty as the admissible form of ‘authentic’ rural femininity. Empirically, we analyze 21 semi-structured interviews with rural housewife creators across Shanxi, Henan, and Gansu, a corpus of high engagement videos, and a focused coding of top comments across the high engagement video set that operationalizes audience cues (nostalgia, condescension, aesthetic nudges, solidarity, urban self-marking). Findings articulate three themes: (1) calibrated modesty as a governed subjectivity that converts humility and care into platform-legible authenticity; (2) visibility moderation and algorithmic volatility that steer creators toward “acceptable positivity” and upbeat, aesthetically coherent depictions; and (3) negotiation of the platformed urban gaze, wherein creators balance bucolic packaging with selective, micro-resistant displays of competence and modernity. We specify a stabilization loop: Cue → Calibration → Reward → Repetition →Normalization, whereby top-comment nudges and first-hour visibility signals cue creators to lighten tone and retune pacing; distributional rewards then codify these tactics as ‘what works’. We also identify Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) and place as non-focal amplifiers/mediators that retune style and cadence without altering the underlying logic. Rural housewives emerge as the privileged yet disciplined subjects of this gaze because their care centered domesticity simultaneously meets platform brand-safety/‘positive energy’, urban pastoral taste, and village respectability. The paper contributes by specifying modesty as a gendered visibility script, theorizing the urban gaze as a platformed assemblage with concrete mechanisms, and clarifying the cultural politics through which rurality is commodified and bounded as “authentic.” We conclude with implications for platform transparency and creator support, and outline future directions for comparative and longitudinal research on gendered platform labor and rural representation.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103939
Bertolozzi-Caredio Daniele , Antonioli Federico , Di Marcantonio Federica , Tur-Cardona Juan , Ciaian Pavel
Growing attention has been paid to gender balance in EU agriculture due to a persistently lower presence of female farm managers. While several studies have examined factors affecting successor selection in family farms, there is limited evidence on how the process of successor identification differs between male and female successors in the EU. This paper aims to address this gap while highlighting the factors that specifically support or hinder the choice of a female successor. Based on a survey of 559 farmers from Italy and Poland, we employ logistic and multinomial logistic regression to model the likelihood of identifying successors. Firstly, we find a significant difference in the factors affecting the identification of female and male successors, both in the pooled sample and in each country separately. Secondly, female successors are more likely to be identified than male successors in organic farms not belonging to producer organisations, where women are already involved in farm management and rely on the full incumbent's involvement in farming, stronger ties to public institutions, and certain retirement plans. In contrast, patrilineal family structures, such as having a firstborn son, multiple children or family members with health issues, tend to favour male successors. Although start-up support for young farmers may enhance the overall likelihood of successor identification, it does not appear to have a specific effect on the likelihood of selecting female rather than male successors. On this basis, the paper draws some considerations for gender-tailored policies to support gender balance in EU agriculture.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103930
Tania Leach , Leah Le , Georgina Barton , Nicole Delaney , Ellen Larsen , Yosheen Pillay , Annette Bromdal
This systematic literature review (SLR) examines empirical research on marginalised children and young peoples' sense of belonging in regional, rural and remote (RRR) Australian educational contexts. Following PRISMA Guidelines and utilizing JBI quality appraisal tools, five databases were searched. Inclusion criteria encompassed English-language, online full-text peer-reviewed empirical studies from RRR Australia. Fourteen studies (four qualitative, ten cross-sectional) were included in the final corpus and synthesised employing Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological model and thematic analysis. The synthesis revealed six themes that influence sense of belonging: 1) Relational factors; 2) Fostering supportive relationships, sense of community and school connectedness factors; 3) Recognition of diversity and individuality factors; 4) Factors of adaptation and fitting in; 5) Role of school and community for engagement factors; and 6) Spatial design and architectural factors. The review highlights the need for inclusive practices and policies to foster belonging in RRR Australian educational settings. The limited studies identified and emphasis on student voice inclusion in the 2013 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child amendment, underscore the need for expanded belonging research in RRR settings. Gathering diverse perspectives is essential to develop inclusive policies and practices that support marginalised cohorts' visibility, belonging, connectedness, and overall health and wellbeing.
{"title":"Being and belonging – identifying “invisible” children and young people's voices within educational contexts in regional, rural and remote Australian communities: A systematic literature review of empirical studies","authors":"Tania Leach , Leah Le , Georgina Barton , Nicole Delaney , Ellen Larsen , Yosheen Pillay , Annette Bromdal","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103930","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103930","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This systematic literature review (SLR) examines empirical research on marginalised children and young peoples' sense of belonging in regional, rural and remote (RRR) Australian educational contexts. Following PRISMA Guidelines and utilizing JBI quality appraisal tools, five databases were searched. Inclusion criteria encompassed English-language, online full-text peer-reviewed empirical studies from RRR Australia. Fourteen studies (four qualitative, ten cross-sectional) were included in the final corpus and synthesised employing Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological model and thematic analysis. The synthesis revealed six themes that influence sense of belonging: 1) Relational factors; 2) Fostering supportive relationships, sense of community and school connectedness factors; 3) Recognition of diversity and individuality factors; 4) Factors of adaptation and fitting in; 5) Role of school and community for engagement factors; and 6) Spatial design and architectural factors. The review highlights the need for inclusive practices and policies to foster belonging in RRR Australian educational settings. The limited studies identified and emphasis on student voice inclusion in the 2013 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child amendment, underscore the need for expanded belonging research in RRR settings. Gathering diverse perspectives is essential to develop inclusive policies and practices that support marginalised cohorts' visibility, belonging, connectedness, and overall health and wellbeing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103930"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568562","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 : 2025-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103936
Lulu Zhou , Qingyuan Yang , Kangchuan Su , Yahui Wang , Wenxin Wang , Haijun Liu
Cultivation and residential systems are a crucial component of rural space and the core of agricultural development. This study investigates the cultivation and residential systems symbiotic development in the context of the transformation from cultivated land to orchards in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area from the farmers' perspective. The results indicate a shift from cultivated land to orchards, with cultivated land decreasing by 32.36 % and orchard land increasing by 60.42 %. The overall land use structure shifted from a "cultivation-dominated" pattern to an "orchard-dominated" one. The symbiotic relationship between cultivation system and residential system evolved from "mutually harmful" to "mutually beneficial". The proportion of households in the mutually beneficial type increased from 23.41 % to 48.41 %, while the mutually harmful type declined from 75 % to 30.16 %, reflecting a shift in the cultivation and residential systems functional relationship from competition to collaboration. Institutional interventions, infrastructure, and economic factors played a crucial role in this transformation. This study provides insights into land-use optimization and urban-rural integration in mountainous regions.
{"title":"Symbiotic development of cultivation and residential systems under the cultivated land–orchard transition in the post-Three Gorges Project era","authors":"Lulu Zhou , Qingyuan Yang , Kangchuan Su , Yahui Wang , Wenxin Wang , Haijun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103936","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103936","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultivation and residential systems are a crucial component of rural space and the core of agricultural development. This study investigates the cultivation and residential systems symbiotic development in the context of the transformation from cultivated land to orchards in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area from the farmers' perspective. The results indicate a shift from cultivated land to orchards, with cultivated land decreasing by 32.36 % and orchard land increasing by 60.42 %. The overall land use structure shifted from a \"cultivation-dominated\" pattern to an \"orchard-dominated\" one. The symbiotic relationship between cultivation system and residential system evolved from \"mutually harmful\" to \"mutually beneficial\". The proportion of households in the mutually beneficial type increased from 23.41 % to 48.41 %, while the mutually harmful type declined from 75 % to 30.16 %, reflecting a shift in the cultivation and residential systems functional relationship from competition to collaboration. Institutional interventions, infrastructure, and economic factors played a crucial role in this transformation. This study provides insights into land-use optimization and urban-rural integration in mountainous regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103936"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568563","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}
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