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Homestead withdrawal behaviour of rural migrants in China: The role of joint reform of hukou system and homestead system

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103526

Xiao Cui , Eddie Chi Man Hui , Jianfu Shen , Xin Lin , Siyi Wang , Fang He

Promoting land withdrawal of rural migrants is of great significance to both sustainable urbanization and rural revitalization in developing countries. Urban migration policies and rural land system arrangements are crucial influencing factors, but their interactive relationship and effects on rural land withdrawal have yet to be well understood. Focusing on China's hukou system reform aiming at reducing migration restrictions and homestead system reform aiming at granting farmers formal land property rights, we employ PSM-DID models on nationwide data from the rural household survey conducted in 2015, 2017, and 2019 to examine the causal effects of the joint reform on homestead withdrawal. The results show that the joint reform of these two systems can more effectively encourage rural migrants to withdraw from homesteads. Their complementary relationship arises because hukou system reform reduces migrants' access restrictions on urban welfare and equal employment rights, thereby weakening their reliance on the homestead security function and strengthening the income effect of homestead withdrawal. Interestingly, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between hukou reform intensity and the change in this complementarity, indicating when homestead security is replaced by urban welfare, the higher expectations of future value and emotional attachment to homestead would reduce migrants' enthusiasm for homestead withdrawal. These findings highlight the necessity of simultaneously reducing migration restrictions and perfecting rural land property rights and propose specific implementation pathways for developing countries.

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Understanding politicisation of farm animal welfare through stability and change in public trust

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103557

Renate Marie Butli Hårstad

The issue of farm animal welfare is gaining increased attention, new insights, and involvement from more stakeholders, alongside private initiatives aimed at its improvement. Changing public perceptions of animal welfare further pressures institutions responsible for its oversight. This trend of shifting animal welfare from expert-driven governance to a political issue illustrates its growing politicisation. Research indicates that politicisation processes can lead to declining trust and increasing polarisation across various areas. This study uses the theoretical lens of politicisation to explore how trust in farm animal welfare has evolved over time within Norwegian food production. Norway is a unique case, as surveys from 1997 to 2007 revealed some of the highest trust levels in responsible food and meat production across Europe. However, rationalisation in the agricultural sector, media scrutiny, and heightened activity from private actors are pressuring policymakers and the agricultural sector to maintain legitimacy amid demands to ‘deliver’ good animal welfare as a common interest. As the debate intensifies, this study examines 2020 survey data to evaluate Norway's position 13 years after the previous survey. The results reveal both change and stability in public trust regarding farm animal welfare. First, trust has declined, though primarily from high levels to greater uncertainty. Second, public trust differs by gender, education, place of residence, and political affiliation, but these differences have not increased since 2007—suggesting that polarisation has remained stable.

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What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103548

Ana Novak, Živa Alif, Luka Juvančič, Tanja Šumrada

The study uses the extended Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to explore farmers' participation in knowledge transfer activities and the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) based agricultural advisory services. Results based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and survey data of 4742 farmers who attended agri-environmental, organic farming or animal welfare training in Slovenia show that perceived behaviour control and attitudes were the most important factors influencing their intention to participate in future training. Satisfaction with the training, which was affected by the training content, design, and quality of the lecturer, had a further positive effect on the intention. We found that farmers who attended online sessions were less satisfied with the training than those participating in-person. Finally, online training was more likely attended by farmers who found it challenging to attend in-person due to lack of transportation options or time, and who had sufficient ICT knowledge, equipment and internet connection. Online sessions were also more often attended by older, female and part-time farmers. Our results emphasise the crucial role of offering advisory services adapted to the farmers' needs and preferences, as their satisfaction influences their attendance in training programs, which are often voluntary. Furthermore, the training design and implementation should take into account the needs of different groups of farmers, as the ICT-based advisory services may still not be evenly accessible to all farmers.

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Rural transformation and the future of China's "granary": A perspective on livelihood trajectories

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103524

Jianzhi Liu , Yangang Fang , Jiajun Qiao , Mark W. Rosenberg , Ruru Wang , Xiaoyue Liu , Shuhan Yu

Recent research demonstrates that the core features of agricultural and rural transformation in grain-dependent areas of the newly industrializing countries in East and Southeast Asia do not fully align with classical theories and paradigms. However, there is a lack of a theoretical model that illustrates the general patterns of rural evolution and transformation in these areas during structural transformation and outlines their future trajectories. Through case studies of a well-known grain base in China, this paper explores this issue using an analytical framework consisting of the trajectory of agricultural transformation associated with rural residents' livelihood changes and the trajectory of rural community restructuring induced by these livelihood changes. The results show that, since structural transformation, the grain-dependent countryside of China has roughly undergone an evolution from a stage of relative isolation and self-sufficiency, marked by agricultural involution, to a stage of accelerating factor flows between cities and the countryside, marked by part-time livelihoods, and finally to the current stage of accumulating "potential energies" for rural restructuring, marked by population aging. Meanwhile, challenges to the further transformation of the countryside are rooted in the socioeconomic characteristics of the middle-income period, which underscores the significance of overcoming the middle-income trap. Finally, we propose theoretical patterns for the future trajectories of China's grain-dependent countryside through the scenario analysis based on overcoming the middle-income trap and discuss the implications for rural revitalization in these areas.

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Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103549

W.J. de Lange , F. van der Bank , M.E. Volscheck , T.E. Kleynhans

Commercial farms have increased in physical size and the spectrum of managerial skills required to farm viably. The pivotal role of commercial farms as centres of rural development has spurred much research investigating the multiple factors contributing to successful farmers in developing countries. Given the limited control over socio-economic conditions and farm characteristics, understanding the individual factors that account for the success of farmers is of special interest. Studies on farmer success traditionally focused on demographic factors and technical/functional skills, with a growing concern for managerial capacity and decision-making. We contribute to this discussion by developing an integrative, behaviour-based competency model that cuts across different functional areas.

Critical incident interviews were conducted with a stratified sample of successful farmers (N = 48) across various agricultural industries to explore the behavioural competencies for long-term success in commercial agriculture in the rural context. By integrating primary interview data with current literature on farmer success and leadership models, we identified 12 key competencies for sustained successful farming which were clustered into five categories, namely creating the vision and strategic planning; monitoring and analysing information; collaborating and human resource capacity; character strengths; and commercial acumen and technical expertise. The result reveals that leadership attributes are on equal footing with the technical and economic attributes of successful farms. The study emphasises the importance of leadership competence as a vital component for growth and provides new insights into why so many farm development support schemes in developing economies fail even when abundant technical and economic assistance is provided.

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Explaining farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors in rural China: A perspective of appraisal theory of emotions

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103584

Xudan Lin , Jie He , Hong Zhu

Rural development emphasizes the significance of environmental protection and green agriculture, but most studies focus on governmental actions and expert knowledge production. Mobilization at the local level in rural areas needs to be considered. To fill this research gap, according to the appraisal theory of emotions, we draw upon the related literature and develop a conceptual model that explains the relationships among farmers' place attachment, subjective well-being, and farmers' pro-environmental behaviors in the public and private spheres. Based on survey data from 423 farmers and interviews with 12 farmers from a rural area in China, the study expands the current conceptualization of cognition by incorporating a connection with place and emphasizing the place-related aspects of subjective well-being. The findings show that both place attachment and subjective well-being can effectively enhance farmers' pro-environmental behaviors. Also, subjective well-being has a significant mediating effect on the relationships between farmers’ place attachment and pro-environmental behaviors. The results also demonstrate the spillover effects between pro-environmental behaviors from the public to the private sphere. The implications for theory and practice are addressed.

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Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103551

Rachel Brown

Farmers face challenges ranging from fractured landholdings to climate change, yet they often have limited adoption of technology that could help cope with these adversities. As such, understanding farmers’ adoption of technology is critical to developing farmer livelihoods in the context of changing global pressures. This research studies the technology and behavior change decisions of farmers in Cambodia through a survey of 109 farmers growing different types of crops and that have a variety of technical change opportunities. The study uses double hurdle modeling with a fractional logistic regression approach and discusses the results in the context of the theory of planned behavior. Results demonstrate that growing rice or cashews, extension services, risk aversion, indebtedness, experiencing crop loss, and having negative perspectives about climate change were positively significantly related to production behavior change while age and owning livestock were negatively significantly related to behavior change. The results suggest that agricultural technology could be made more accessible regardless of production type and developed with special attention towards climate change effect mitigation strategies.

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Reusing data for development: Lessons learned from an agricultural observatory in Madagascar

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103585

Marina Dimitriou , Louis Olié

We examine the issue of data reuse to bridge the data gap needed for advancing agricultural and rural development in Africa. We present the contributions of an observatory project in Madagascar—a low-income country with weak statistical capacity—and the lessons learned regarding its feasibility, challenges, and relevance. We argue that leveraging existing data to foster sustainable development in a key sector such as agriculture is achievable and depends largely on promoting collaborative academics and public-private partnerships.

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“It's one thing after another, after another”: A participatory and systems-based exploration of farmer mental health and climate change

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103573

C. Weatherly , F.C. Doherty

Because of their closeness to and dependence on the land, climate change will disproportionately impact farmer mental health. Despite local and global reliance on US farmers' wellbeing, there are limited regional studies elucidating the impacts of our changing climate on their mental health. Scholars have argued for systems-based and participatory approaches to understand the contextual factors that interact and influence the mental health impacts of climate change. This study addresses this gap by leveraging qualitative data from community stakeholders and applying a systems perspective to illuminate and better understand how climate change impacts farmer mental health. Using thematic analysis, themes and patterns were identified among transcribed interview recordings of both farmers and local mental health providers. Findings illustrate how weather variability empirically connected to climate change is a primary source of adverse mental health outcomes among farmers. However, weather variability was one of multiple drivers impacting farmer mental health and is included within a broad series of increasingly uncontrollable and unpredictable stressors. These drivers are felt through context-specific cultural and systemic factors that both serve to amplify and diminish mental health outcomes. This study builds on the existing literature on climate change and farmer mental health by providing a systems perspective on how these impacts are felt through various contextual factors relevant to farmers’ lives. Findings reinforce the call for systems-based and participatory approaches when looking to not only empirically map the pathways from climate change to farmer mental health, but in also identifying holistic intervention strategies.

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Rural family carer health work and ageing at home in New Brunswick, Canada

IF 5.1 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103541

Mary Rita Holland , Mark W. Skinner

Drawing together key developments in feminist sociology, emotional geographies and critical rural gerontology, we address recent calls within research and policy to continue to build our understanding of the invisible work involved in navigating ageing and care at home in rural contexts. We do so by investigating taken for granted assumptions about rurality and health work in familial care as well as the home as a complex care environment. We use the example of family carers of rural adults in New Brunswick, Canada to shed light on the invisible health work required to maintain the home as a site of care and manage disrupted meanings of home space and family relationships. Findings suggest that structural forces like government policies and income inequality create and perpetuate new forms of health work for family carers. Rural insights into advancing a critical perspective on gendered, familial care providers and their relationship to the care environment are discussed in order to better understand the impact of imposing long-term care policy on domestic relationships and places.

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