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Land regularization and technical efficiency in agricultural production: An empirical study in Andean countries 土地规范化与农业生产技术效率：安第斯国家的实证研究

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103912

Maja Schling , Magaly Saenz Somarriba , Juan de Dios Mattos , Rodrigo Chang Huaita

This study evaluates the impact of land tenure security on technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in the three countries of the Andean region, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Using cross-sectional data for 4750 smallholder farmer households, we employ a multi-stage methodology, including propensity score matching, selectivity bias-corrected stochastic production frontier, and meta frontier analysis to address concerns relating to endogeneity. Results reveal that farmers who hold a formal land title on average exhibit technical efficiency that is 25 % higher than among farmers without legal title, though effects and magnitudes vary by country. Furthermore, we explore the pathways through which tenure security may affect technical efficiency and find that possessing legal title is associated with higher likelihood of making productive investments in land and facing land conflicts. This study makes three key contributions: it provides the first causal evidence in Latin America linking tenure security to technical efficiency using robust econometric methods; it offers a regional perspective by combining national-level analyses that highlights both shared and context-specific dynamics; and it sheds light on behavioral mechanisms driving these effects. Together, our findings imply that comprehensive land regularization is crucial to enhancing agricultural productivity levels among smallholder farmers in the region.

本研究评估了安第斯地区玻利维亚、厄瓜多尔和秘鲁三国土地保有权保障对小农技术效率的影响。利用4750户小农家庭的横截面数据，我们采用多阶段方法，包括倾向得分匹配、选择性偏差校正随机生产前沿和元前沿分析，以解决与内生性相关的问题。结果显示，拥有正式土地所有权的农民平均表现出比没有合法土地所有权的农民高25%的技术效率，尽管影响和程度因国家而异。此外，我们探讨了权属保障可能影响技术效率的途径，并发现拥有合法所有权与土地生产性投资和面临土地冲突的可能性更高相关。本研究做出了三个关键贡献：使用稳健的计量经济学方法，首次在拉丁美洲提供了将使用权保障与技术效率联系起来的因果证据；它结合国家一级的分析，突出了共同的和具体情况的动态，提供了区域视角；它揭示了驱动这些效应的行为机制。总之，我们的研究结果表明，全面的土地正规化对于提高该地区小农的农业生产力水平至关重要。

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Climate, conflict, and the coping capacity of farm households in Myanmar 缅甸的气候、冲突和农户的应对能力

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103909

Joanna van Asselt , Linda Steinhübel-Rasheed , Zin Wai Aung , Joseph Goeb , Nang Lun Kham Synt

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in violent conflicts and extreme weather events worldwide. Farmers are disproportionately negatively affected by these shocks as their production is often directly impacted. To cope with these shocks, farm households often employ a variety of coping strategies to preserve assets (e.g., reduce spending on food and non-food items or agricultural inputs) and/or to uphold consumption levels (e.g., spend savings, borrow money, or sell assets). While the ability to deploy coping strategies reflects household resilience to shocks, the choice of strategy can have lasting effects on their long-term welfare and ability to recover, especially when these strategies are exhausted and cannot be restored. Analyzing primary, nationally representative panel data from Myanmar, we contribute new empirical evidence on the relationship between climate and conflict shocks and households’ coping strategies. Using fixed-effects logit models, we find that farm households commonly rely on both consumption- and asset-smoothing strategies, regardless of shock type. However, climatic shocks are more likely to lead to the depletion of consumption-smoothing options, suggesting a more acute and immediate impact than conflict shocks.

近年来，世界范围内的暴力冲突和极端天气事件显著增加。农民受到这些冲击的负面影响尤为严重，因为他们的生产往往受到直接影响。为了应对这些冲击，农户通常采用各种应对策略来保护资产（例如，减少食品和非食品项目或农业投入的支出）和/或维持消费水平（例如，花费储蓄、借钱或出售资产）。虽然部署应对策略的能力反映了家庭抵御冲击的能力，但策略的选择可能对家庭的长期福利和恢复能力产生持久影响，尤其是在这些策略耗尽且无法恢复的情况下。通过分析缅甸具有全国代表性的初步面板数据，我们为气候和冲突冲击以及家庭应对策略之间的关系提供了新的经验证据。利用固定效应logit模型，我们发现农户通常同时依赖消费平滑策略和资产平滑策略，而不考虑冲击类型。然而，气候冲击更有可能导致消费平滑选择的枯竭，这表明其影响比冲突冲击更严重、更直接。

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Clans as social capital in Wenzhou's in situ urbanization: exclusive or inclusive development? 宗族作为温州就地城市化的社会资本：排他性发展还是包容性发展？

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103913

Jieming Zhu , Jie Chen

Rural industrialization and thus in situ urbanization have been one of the main driving forces for the national development of China as a developing country. This paper focuses on Liushi, a township in Wenzhou, as a case study to elaborate on how the social capital of traditional clans coordinates rural industrialization through industrial collaboration that is evolved from agricultural cooperation. Development of Liushi is characterized by peasants' mass participation in business start-up and informal finance, both of which are mediated by the informal institution of clans, and the formation of industrial value chains based on the long-term rural social trust. It is discovered that the functional relationship between the Skinner's town market system and its affiliated villages is instrumental in the progress of rural industrialization. In the course of in situ urbanization, village spaces are stratified and town spaces fragmented. Newly constructed spaces are created by locals and may not be inclusive to non-local migrants. Segregated urbanization generates industrial townships instead of cities. Exclusivity of clans is retained as a traditional construct of rurality.

作为一个发展中国家，农村工业化和就地城镇化一直是中国国家发展的主要动力之一。本文以温州柳市为例，阐述了传统宗族社会资本如何通过由农业合作演变而来的产业协作来协调农村工业化。六市的发展特点是农民大众参与创业和非正式金融，这两者都以非正式的宗族制度为中介，并在长期的农村社会信任基础上形成产业价值链。研究发现，斯金纳城镇市场体系与其附属村之间的功能关系有助于农村工业化进程的推进。在原地城市化过程中，村落空间呈分层状，城镇空间呈碎片化。新建的空间是由当地人创造的，可能不包括非本地移民。隔离的城市化产生了工业乡镇，而不是城市。宗族的排他性作为农村的传统结构被保留了下来。

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“With the horizon ahead”: Emancipatory politics and radical imagination in the Catalan Pyrenees “放眼未来”：加泰罗尼亚比利牛斯山脉的解放政治与激进想象

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103883

Camila del Mármol

The “left-behind places” debate associates the idea of peripheral and underdeveloped territories with the spread of right-wing politics. As a red flag, these discourses examine specific phenomena developing in concrete settings in order to provide a wider understanding of rural and peripheral regions. Conversely, I will focus on the unfolding of an array of initiatives that plant the seed for novel ideological pathways to imagine alternative futures, arising from the Indignados anti-austerity movement born in 2011. Based on the case of the Catalan Pyrenees, in northeastern Spain, I analyze the changing conditions for the emergence of an emancipatory political subject in this European periphery. Opposing a government proposal to hold the Winter Olympics, a wider array of actors came together to confront what was identified as an extractive model of economic production based on tourism, instead proposing heterodox paths for development. This movement triggered the promotion and convergence of various projects and initiatives developing within the framework of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), the new commons, and agroecological praxis. Together, these “rural resistances” form a fertile ground for the consolidation of organized social networks in search of alternative paths to oppose capitalism and neoliberal restructuring. I will discuss the transformative potential and the limits of these variegated initiatives, as well as the degree to which they are capable of opposing the hegemonic development models in the region.

关于“落后地区”的争论将边缘和欠发达地区的概念与右翼政治的传播联系在一起。作为一个危险信号，这些话语检查具体环境中发展的具体现象，以提供对农村和周边地区更广泛的理解。相反，我将重点关注一系列举措的展开，这些举措为想象替代未来的新意识形态路径播下了种子，这些举措源于2011年诞生的“愤怒者”（Indignados）反紧缩运动。以西班牙东北部的加泰罗尼亚比利牛斯山脉为例，我分析了这个欧洲边缘地区出现解放政治主体的变化条件。反对政府举办冬季奥运会的提议，更广泛的参与者聚集在一起，反对被认为是基于旅游业的榨取型经济生产模式，而不是提出非正统的发展道路。这一运动引发了在社会和团结经济（SSE）、新公地和农业生态实践框架内发展的各种项目和倡议的促进和融合。总之，这些“农村抵抗”形成了巩固有组织的社会网络的肥沃土壤，以寻找反对资本主义和新自由主义重组的替代途径。我将讨论这些多样化倡议的变革潜力和局限性，以及它们在多大程度上能够反对该地区的霸权发展模式。

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The relationship between experienced losses and damages, risk tolerance and livelihood thresholds in the East Gippsland, Australia, farming sector 澳大利亚东吉普斯兰农业部门经历的损失和损害、风险承受能力和生计阈值之间的关系

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103918

Guy Jackson , Emily Boyd , Brian Chaffin

Losses and damages are residual impacts of climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation actions. Losses and damages are borderless, albeit experienced differently between and within countries. Although Australia is a high-income country, recent losses and damages have been particularly severe. Over the last eight years, farmers in East Gippsland, Victoria, have been severely affected by a prolonged drought, bushfires, and floods, with evidence emerging of the links between these events and anthropogenic climate change. Through a series of surveys and semi-structured interviews with farmers and agricultural governance actors in East Gippsland, this research explores the relationship between experienced losses and damages, risk tolerance and livelihood thresholds. East Gippsland farmers are undertaking adaptation, but are still experiencing significant economic and non-economic losses and damages. Farmers and sectoral governance actors portray a complex picture of high risk tolerance, which, together with livelihoods strongly linked to identities, values, and self-worth, translates into a low desire to leave the sector despite escalating losses and damages that are challenging livelihood viability. We suggest that farmers’ high risk tolerance may, at present, with limited structural adaptation action identified, be unsustainable in light of current and future climate change. However, the strong values associated with being a farmer and the apparent recognition of greater adaptation needs across scales provide a potentially conducive environment for change. Whether farmers choose to stay or leave the sector, there must be managed processes to enable people to decide without losing their dignity and incurring further losses and damages.

损失和损害是气候变化的残余影响，尽管采取了减缓和适应行动。损失和损害是无国界的，尽管国家之间和国家内部的经历不同。尽管澳大利亚是一个高收入国家，但最近的损失和损害尤为严重。在过去的八年里，维多利亚州东吉普斯兰的农民受到了长期干旱、森林大火和洪水的严重影响，有证据表明这些事件与人为气候变化之间存在联系。通过对东吉普斯兰农民和农业治理主体的一系列调查和半结构化访谈，本研究探讨了经历损失和损害、风险承受能力和生计阈值之间的关系。东吉普斯兰的农民正在进行适应，但仍然遭受重大的经济和非经济损失和损害。农民和部门治理行为者呈现出一幅高风险承受能力高的复杂图景，再加上与身份、价值观和自我价值密切相关的生计，导致农民不愿离开该部门，尽管不断升级的损失和损害正在挑战生计的可行性。我们认为，鉴于当前和未来的气候变化，农民的高风险承受能力在确定有限的结构适应行动的情况下可能是不可持续的。然而，作为农民的强烈价值观和对跨尺度更大适应需求的明显认识为变革提供了潜在的有利环境。无论农民选择留下还是离开该部门，都必须有可管理的程序，使人们能够在不丧失尊严和造成进一步损失和损害的情况下做出决定。

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Local food and the nomadic ethical placemaking of the rural idyll: Towards a non-anthropocentric ‘rural of the future’ 乡土食物和游牧民族对田园牧歌的塑造：走向一个非人类中心的“未来乡村”

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103911

Alessandro Graciotti

The rural idyll is a geographical imagination envisioning a utopian escape from urban modernity and industrial values. However, this imaginary typically serves anthropocentric, neoliberal market logics, which landscape the rural as other. Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) may navigate this tension when committing to the ethico-political relocalisation of food systems. Drawing on Braidotti's nomadic ethics, this study develops a non-anthropocentric (new materialist and posthuman) understanding of the rural idyll, grounded in the narratives of local food consumers participating in AFNs in the Italian region of Marche. Based on 20 in-depth interviews, this research explores how participants' narratives can express a life-affirming desire that (re)configures the rural idyll as a not-yet-sustained condition of more-than-human rural spatial assemblages, providing a counter-point to the negative realities presently landscaping non-human nature as other. Findings show that these narratives contribute to the nomadic ethical placemaking of a non-anthropocentric rural idyll – a virtuality foregrounding a ‘rural of the future’ committed to fostering human and non-human intra-actions based on the ontological dissolution of the human subject in rural space. This process repositions non-human life discourse as ethico-politically central in agri-food practices and fosters a non-linear, inclusive reinterpretation of local food autochthony. Thus, this study contributes to food geographies and rural studies by showing how AFN-driven local food consumption can help overturn anthropocentric rural landscaping by positioning a non-anthropocentric idyllic image of non-human nature as a harbinger of alternative patterns of becoming, thereby opening up a novel, nomadic ethical understanding of placemaking possible rural futures.

田园牧歌是一种地理上的想象，设想着从城市现代性和工业价值的乌托邦式逃避。然而，这种想象典型地服务于以人类为中心的新自由主义市场逻辑，将农村视为他者。替代食品网络（afn）在致力于食品系统的伦理-政治重新定位时，可能会克服这种紧张关系。借鉴Braidotti的游牧伦理，本研究以意大利马尔凯地区参与afn的当地食品消费者的叙述为基础，发展了一种非人类中心主义（新唯物主义和后人类主义）对乡村田园牧歌的理解。基于20次深度访谈，本研究探讨了参与者的叙述如何表达一种肯定生命的愿望，这种愿望（重新）将乡村田园牧歌配置为一种非人类的乡村空间组合的尚未持续的条件，为目前将非人类自然视为他者的负面现实提供了一个对立点。研究结果表明，这些叙事有助于建立一个非人类中心的乡村田园牧歌的游牧伦理场所——一个虚拟前景的“未来乡村”致力于促进人类和非人类的内部行动，基于人类主体在乡村空间的本体论消解。这一过程将非人类生命话语重新定位为农业食品实践的伦理政治中心，并促进了对当地食品本土的非线性、包容性重新解释。因此，本研究通过展示afn驱动的当地食品消费如何通过将非人类为中心的非人类自然的田园诗般的形象定位为另一种发展模式的先兆，从而推翻以人类为中心的农村景观，从而为食物地理学和农村研究做出贡献，从而开辟了一种新的、游牧的伦理理解，以创造可能的农村未来。

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Challenges and opportunities to tree planting on working landscapes: Insights from New York dairy farmers 在工作环境中植树的挑战和机遇：来自纽约奶农的见解

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103899

Kristen Jovanelly , Lily Colburn , Luca Guadagno

Diverse actors are interested in increasing tree cover on working landscapes to address social and ecological challenges. Yet land managers' interest and capacity to engage in tree planting remains unclear. To address this gap, we conducted semi-structured interviews with dairy farmers across New York State to understand their perspectives on tree planting. Analytically, we draw on political ecology to examine how endogenous factors (e.g., farm succession, land use practices, farmer identity) and exogenous factors (e.g., sectoral consolidation, tenure precarity, policy–market infrastructures) shape the opportunity costs farmers face. Many farmers had already planted and managed trees over the past two decades and viewed expanding tree cover as a strategy for improving resource management. Rather than emphasizing climate change mitigation, they highlighted trees' roles in navigating climatic events (e.g., precipitation, wind, temperature) and enhancing financial resilience. Perceptions of future planting were shaped by regional and sectoral dynamics, including limited access to capital, labor, and land, which often led farmers to deprioritize trees in favor of more pressing investments. These challenges were compounded by technocratic policy legacies and cultural histories of agricultural development, which manifested differently depending on operational type and farmer entry into the sector. We identify key leverage points—such as succession windows, tenure security, and infrastructure for tree value chains—where costs can be rebalanced and land manager participation in tree planting can be made more feasible. This research contributes to a growing body of work suggesting that implementing natural climate solutions on working landscapes requires structural change, place-based analysis, and centering land managers’ lived experience.

不同的参与者对增加工作景观的树木覆盖感兴趣，以应对社会和生态挑战。然而，土地管理者参与植树的兴趣和能力尚不清楚。为了解决这一差距，我们对纽约州各地的奶农进行了半结构化访谈，以了解他们对植树的看法。在分析上，我们利用政治生态学来研究内生因素（如农场演为、土地利用实践、农民身份）和外生因素（如部门整合、权属不稳定、政策市场基础设施）如何影响农民面临的机会成本。许多农民在过去二十年中已经种植和管理树木，并将扩大树木覆盖视为改善资源管理的一项战略。它们没有强调减缓气候变化，而是强调了树木在应对气候事件（例如降水、风、温度）和增强金融抵御能力方面的作用。对未来种植的看法受到区域和部门动态的影响，包括获得资本、劳动力和土地的机会有限，这往往导致农民放弃种植树木，转而进行更紧迫的投资。技术官僚的政策遗产和农业发展的文化历史加剧了这些挑战，这些挑战因经营类型和农民进入该部门而有所不同。我们确定了关键的杠杆点，如继承窗口、权用保障和树木价值链的基础设施，在这些方面可以重新平衡成本，使土地管理者参与植树更加可行。这项研究为越来越多的工作做出了贡献，这些工作表明，在工作景观中实施自然气候解决方案需要结构变化、基于地点的分析以及以土地管理者的生活经验为中心。

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Servant leadership and members' well-being in China's village committees: A multilevel analysis of the serial mediating roles of serving culture and organization-based self-esteem 服务型领导与村委会成员幸福感：服务型文化与组织自尊序列中介作用的多层次分析

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103910

Zhichao Qian , Xuebin Cao , Xiaoyu Li , Xiaoyi Wen

This study investigates the impact of servant leadership on the well-being of village committee members within China's rural communities, examining the mediating roles of serving culture and organization-based self-esteem. Drawing on social identity theory and employing a multilevel research design, the research analyzes two-wave survey data collected from 263 members of village committees, the grassroots rural public organizations in China. The results suggest a positive correlation between servant leadership and village committee members' well-being, with serving culture and organization-based self-esteem acting as key mediators in this relationship. Furthermore, these mediating effects occur sequentially: servant leadership fosters a serving culture, which in turn boosts organization-based self-esteem, ultimately enhancing member well-being. These findings offer new insights into the role of servant leadership in effective public management in rural communities.

本研究探讨服务型领导对中国农村社区村委会成员幸福感的影响，考察服务型文化和组织自尊的中介作用。本研究运用社会认同理论，采用多层次研究设计，对263名农村基层公共组织村委会成员的两波调查数据进行分析。结果表明，服务型领导与村委会成员幸福感之间存在正相关关系，服务文化和组织自尊在这一关系中起重要中介作用。此外，这些中介效应是依次发生的：服务型领导培养了一种服务文化，这种文化反过来又促进了基于组织的自尊，最终提高了成员的幸福感。这些发现为仆人式领导在农村社区有效公共管理中的作用提供了新的见解。

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Agricultural dynamism and the influence of territorial characteristics in attracting young farmers 农业活力与地域特征对吸引青年农民的影响

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103896

Consuelo Calafat-Marzal , Francesc J. Cervera , Marta García-Mollá , Vicente Sanz-Torro

The situation facing the primary sector is complicated: young people are seeking quality of life by migrating to more prestigious and profitable economic activities. This ongoing exodus is translating into a progressive ageing of the agricultural population that is difficult to stop. The aim of this research is to analyse the link between items associated with the dynamism of agriculture and the sector's ability to attract farmers under 35, in order to provide crucial information to decision-makers and bolster the success of the implemented policies. A non-convex metafrontier is applied to a sample of 542 municipalities located in the Spanish Mediterranean arc, a region where agriculture must coexist with activities such as tourism, which is experiencing exponential growth. The methodology used enables an assessment of the impact of specific territorial characteristics of the municipalities on the behaviour of this group of farmers, distinguishing between rural, urban and intermediate areas, and differentiating by their proximity (or not) to the coast. The results show the need to remodel the factors that enhance agricultural dynamism in order to increase the proportion of young farmers. A significant structural gap is detected in all the analysed territories, and particularly in urban areas in the non-coastal zone. Greater changes are needed to optimise the agricultural labour market in intermediate areas; specifically, these changes involve facilitating access to markets, ensuring better integration of cooperatives and restructuring Common Agricultural Policy subsidies aimed at guaranteeing generational renewal. In short, a shift is needed in the current regimes, such that subsidies are targeted at improving the agribusiness network to provide better service to farms.

初级部门面临的情况是复杂的：年轻人为了追求高质量的生活而移徙到更有声望和更有利可图的经济活动。这种持续的人口外流正在转化为农业人口的逐步老龄化，这是难以阻止的。本研究的目的是分析与农业活力相关的项目与该部门吸引35岁以下农民的能力之间的联系，以便为决策者提供关键信息并促进实施政策的成功。非凸元边界应用于位于西班牙地中海弧线的542个城市的样本，该地区农业必须与旅游业等活动共存，而旅游业正在经历指数增长。所使用的方法能够评估城市的具体地域特征对这一农民群体行为的影响，区分农村、城市和中间地区，并根据它们是否靠近海岸进行区分。研究结果表明，要提高青年农民的比例，需要对增强农业活力的因素进行重塑。在所有分析过的领土，特别是在非沿海地区的城市地区，都发现了重大的结构差距。需要进行更大的改革，以优化中间地区的农业劳动力市场；具体来说，这些变化涉及促进进入市场的机会，确保合作社更好地一体化和调整旨在保证世代更新的共同农业政策补贴。简而言之，现行制度需要改变，使补贴以改善农业综合企业网络为目标，为农场提供更好的服务。

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Social capital in farmers’ climate adaptation: Bonding, bridging and linking ties 农民气候适应中的社会资本：纽带、桥梁和纽带

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103884

Hacer Gören

Social capital plays a crucial role in rural communities' adaptation to climate change, with bonding, bridging, and linking ties serving distinct yet complementary functions. While their positive influence in responding to sudden-onset events—such as floods, hail, hurricanes—is increasingly acknowledged, their role in addressing slow-onset impacts, including droughts, shifting precipitation, and rising temperatures and sea levels, remains underexplored. Moreover, existing research has given limited attention to the full spectrum of social capital's core dimensions: trust, reciprocity, recurring interactions, and shared norms and values. Building on these understudied areas, this study investigates how different types of social capital support or hinder adaptation among diverse farming groups experiencing both sudden- and slow-onset climate impacts. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three regions of Turkey (2021–2023), the analysis combines survey data from 111 farmers (statistically analysed), semi-structured interviews with 53 farmers, and 29 expert interviews (thematically analysed). The findings indicate that bonding social capital tends to provide limited support, primarily to disadvantaged farmers, and particularly in coping with sudden-onset events, while bridging and linking social capital tend to facilitate adaptation more effectively to climate change, particularly in addressing slow-onset events, and among relatively advantaged farmers. However, each form of social capital shows significant limitations, sometimes contributing to maladaptive outcomes. The study underscores the importance of climate policies and planned adaptation strategies that foster trust and strengthen engagement between farmers and agricultural institutions.

社会资本在农村社区适应气候变化的过程中发挥着至关重要的作用，其纽带、桥梁和联系关系发挥着独特而互补的作用。虽然它们在应对突发事件（如洪水、冰雹、飓风）方面的积极作用日益得到承认，但它们在应对缓慢发生的影响（包括干旱、降水变化、气温和海平面上升）方面的作用仍未得到充分探索。此外，现有的研究对社会资本的核心维度的关注有限：信任、互惠、重复互动以及共同的规范和价值观。在这些未被充分研究的领域的基础上，本研究调查了不同类型的社会资本是如何支持或阻碍经历突发和缓慢气候影响的不同农业群体的适应的。根据在土耳其三个地区（2021-2023年）进行的实地调查，该分析结合了来自111名农民的调查数据（统计分析）、对53名农民的半结构化访谈和29名专家访谈（主题分析）。研究结果表明，结合社会资本往往提供有限的支持，主要是对处于不利地位的农民，特别是在应对突发事件方面；而连接和联系社会资本往往有助于更有效地适应气候变化，特别是在应对缓慢发生的事件方面，以及相对有利的农民。然而，每种形式的社会资本都显示出显著的局限性，有时会导致不适应的结果。该研究强调了气候政策和有计划的适应战略的重要性，这些政策和战略可以促进农民和农业机构之间的信任和加强参与。

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