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Lock-ins and community resilience: Two contrasting development pathways in the Austrian Alps Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Rike Stotten, Markus Schermer, Geoff A. Wilson
Tourism, especially in the European Alps, contributes to rural livelihood and depends on farming to preserve the landscape. The symbiosis is also expected to strengthen community resilience, conceptualized as a combination of economic, social, cultural, political and natural domains. The interplay of these domains may result in path dependencies driven by lock-in effects, beyond which controlled development
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Extending the concept of social farming: Rural development and the fight against organized crime in disadvantaged areas of southern Italy Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Susanne Elsen, Luca Fazzi
The potential of social farming has always been studied from a perspective in which the combination of agricultural production with the provision of welfare services was the predominant feature. Nonetheless, social farming is a tool that can perform other different functions. The article describes the role that social farming plays within a wider strategy for local development in the rural areas of
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Reconnecting to nature amidst crisis: harnessing capacities and mobilities for livelihood and land transformations in the Greek back-to-the-land trend Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Karina Benessaiah
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Clarifying relationships between networking, absorptive capacity and financial performance among South Brazilian farmers Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Júlia Aita dos Santos, Lucas Bonacina Roldan, Mark Kam Loon Loo
Financial performance is a key factor in promoting agribusiness development. Studying ways to increase these returns in the agricultural context provides a favorable environment to create solutions to attend the increasing global food consumption. The agribusiness industry has the potential to change this scenario, if farmers are financially sustainable to satisfy the demands with agricultural productivity
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Entrepreneurs of the air: Sprayer drones as mediators of volumetric agriculture Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Francisco Klauser, Dennis Pauschinger
The article investigates in empirical detail the air-bound practices, expectations and imaginaries that arise from the development and commercialisation of the first authorised drone system in Europe for the automated application of pesticides, which has been developed and sold and is piloted by a Swiss startup company. Sprayer drones make the air relevant for agricultural practices and processes in
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New farmers in the south of Italy: Capturing the complexity of contemporary strategies and networks Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-27 Tara Dourian
Though obscured by agricultural modernization efforts in the 1950s, peasant and peasant-like farm realities persist. Since the 1990s, Italy, like the rest of Europe, witnessed a wave of re-peasantization—a conceptual framework introduced by rural sociologist Jan Douwe van der Ploeg to mark the emergence of a mode of agriculture that is distinctively more peasant-like. Using a qualitative, field-based
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Intercultural economic solidarity circuits: The case of Utopia Basket and participative consumer profile in Ecuador's outskirts Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Ivette Tatiana Castilla Carrascal
The aim of this article is to analyze the role of consumers of Utopia Basket in the organization of intercultural economic solidarity circuits. Therefore, I aim to consider the experience of Utopia Basket in Ecuador. To gather the data, I conducted ethnographic methods, such as observant participation and in-depth interviews between 2014 and 2016. I argue that Utopia Basket consumers have a different
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Sensemaking and the influencing factors on farmer decision-making Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Michael T. Hayden, Ruth Mattimoe, Lisa Jack
The budget for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is €365bn (European Commission, 2018) for 2021–2027, with the majority allocated to farmers through direct payments. Given the economic vulnerability of many farm enterprises, and the concern about the sustainability of food supply for a growing worldwide population, these payments are provided to encourage food production. Despite this economic vulnerability
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Dying villages to prosperous villages: A perspective from revitalization of idle rural residential land (IRRL) Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Zhou Tao, Jiang Guanghui, Ma Wenqiu, Li Guangyong, Qu Yanbo, Tian Yingying, Zhao Qinglei, Tian Yaya
Rapid urbanization has led to the sharp decline of some rural villages. Idle rural residential land (IRRL) is symbolic of rural decline, and the academic community is in urgent need of quantitative studies on the spatial pattern of IRRL from the perspective of geography. Taking Pinggu as a case area, we explored the spatial pattern and layout mode of IRRL and evaluated its utilizability and reuse under
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Tradition (re-)defined: Farm v factory trade-offs in the definition of geographical indications, the case of Three Counties Cider Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Akunna Oledinma, Stephen Roper
The UK is the largest international market for cider. Around 11 per cent of the UK market is accounted for by ‘craft’ or traditional ciders made by both small scale ‘farm’ and large-scale ‘factory’ producers. Drawing on the worlds of production framework we examine the contrasting perspectives of farm and factory producers on the geographical indication (GI) awarded to Three Counties Cider in 1996
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Agricultural adaptation mainstreaming and its study through a systemic adaptation assessment framework: a sub-alpine case-study Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Edward Cornwell, Victor Sposito, Robert Faggian
This paper presents a systemic Adaptation Assessment Framework (AAF) conceived to guide agricultural adaptation mainstreaming into broader policy domains, particularly, those related to rural development. Starting from a review of the main phases and linkages within the adaptation process, the AAF is built around key Land Surface Modelling, Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Decision-Making informative
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Growing algorithmic governmentality: Interrogating the social construction of trust in precision agriculture Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Maaz Gardezi, Ryan Stock
Precision agriculture (PA) is restructuring farmer livelihoods and identities through a panoply of technologies that generate and process big data to influence agricultural practices. In this paper, we ask the question: How does algorithmic rationality impact farmers' trust in PA? We focus on the modalities of power wielded by agritech firms through PA that socially construct a form of moralistic trust
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In a straightjacket? Targeting deprivation in rural Scotland in the context of localism and austerity Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-18 David Clelland
There is a long history of area-based interventions targeted at places seen as being particularly disadvantaged. However, the implementation of such approaches is problematic in rural areas on a number of grounds, including the more dispersed patterns of deprivation and a reliance on high-profile indices of multiple deprivation that are arguably less appropriate in rural contexts. While there is a
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‘Hell or high water’: Good farming and environmental care as contested practices in the implementation of nitrate vulnerable zones in wales Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Alex Franklin, Donna Udall, Ulrich Schmutz, Francis Rayns
This paper explores how dairy farmers attempt to navigate prescribed principles and fixed practices of environmental care in the context of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) and the EU Water Framework Directive. In contrast to agri-environmental schemes, farm-level compliance with NVZ regulations often involves substantial investment costs for the farmer. Drawing on a case study of Wales, we consider
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A sense of rurality: Events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Lucia Aquilino, John Harris, Nicholas Wise
This paper focuses on an event, the World Alternative Games (WAG), as a site for the development and maintenance of community. The research shows how a rural community uses its own interpretation of space to create new activities, inspire collaborative development and promote tourism within a particular locale. Drawing upon ethnographic research undertaken at the third edition of the WAG in 2016, it
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Socio-technical networks modulate on-farm technological innovations in wool production of North Patagonia, Argentina Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Ezequiel Bernardo Gonzalez, Marcos Horacio Easdale, Diego Mariano Sacchero
Socio-technical networks in the agricultural sector are complex and are key in technological innovation processes. Some relevant on-farm management decisions depend on a negotiation process involving different factors, some of which include the interplay between farmers and off-farm services. We assessed the role of the relationships between farms and shearing contractors, with respect to the influence
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Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Judith Janker, Hannu T. Vesala, Kari Mikko Vesala
Pressure on farmers to behave more ‘entrepreneurial’ is increasing. Psychological and social science research therefore has examined what characterises farmers identifying as entrepreneurs. A previous study in Finland suggested that farmers' self-identities may conflict with the public paradigm describing farmers as entrepreneurs instead of food providers. Different expectations towards farming may
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Will social capital affect farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation strategies? Evidences from rural households in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Weijun Wang, Xueyan Zhao, Hua Li, Qin Zhang
Adopting necessary climate change adaptation strategies is an important measure to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In recent years, social capital has provided a new perspective for analyzing the differences of individual behaviors in the process of climate change adaptation. However, the actual role of social capital in adapting to climate change has not been thoroughly explored. In this
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National specialization policy versus farmers’ priorities: Balancing subsistence farming and cash cropping in Nepal Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Nina Bergan Holmelin
The Nepali Government is currently implementing policies for a radical agricultural transformation into large-scale, mechanized, specialized and commercial farming. However, the peasants prioritize diversified subsistence production of resilient and versatile food crops and regard cash crops only as a supplement. Cash cropping represents a potentially profitable income source but involves risk. Complete
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“You have to focus all your energy on being a parent”: Barriers and opportunities for Swedish farmers to be involved fathers Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Camilla Eriksson, Flora Hajdu
Swedish farming fathers are facing new expectations about their level of involvement in their children's upbringing – expectations of their own, but also arising from gender equality policy and shifting societal norms. A gender-neutral parental leave scheme has been in place in Sweden since 1974 and gives parents a generous opportunity to take paid time off work to stay at home with their children
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Planning for place: Place attachment and the founding of rural community land trusts Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Tom Moore
This paper explores the role of place attachment in motivating residents of rural communities to form community land trusts (CLTs). CLTs are non-profit community-led organisations formed and managed by volunteers. Their objectives typically relate to the provision of affordable housing. Using qualitative interview data collected from 8 CLTs in rural England, this paper highlights the ways in which
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Those who go without: an ethnographic analysis of the lived experiences of rural mental health and healthcare infrastructure Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Amy M. Magnus, Patricia Advincula
The impact of navigating one's mental health in a rural community is a unique lived experience because of the many barriers associated with seeking and receiving mental health services. Using arts-based visual ethnography and an analysis of 47 semi-structured interviews, we examine the lived experiences of navigating mental health struggles and healthcare infrastructure in a rural community in the
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“Of course we care!“: A qualitative exploration of Australian livestock producers’ understandings of farm animal welfare issues Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Emily A. Buddle, Heather J. Bray, Rachel A. Ankeny
The welfare of farm animals is increasingly of concern to meat producers as well as consumers and the broader community; however these groups conceptualize animal welfare in different ways, which is likely to present a barrier to effective communication and resolution of conflicts between these groups particularly as livestock producers face increasing scrutiny by community members. Since most research
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Rethinking the divide: Exploring the interdependence between global and nested local markets Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Malin Olofsson, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Joyeeta Gupta, Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters, Yves Van Leynseele
The debate on smallholder commodification trajectories tends to be polarised between mainstream approaches that advocate tighter integration of smallholders into global value chains, and alternative approaches that favour localised markets on the grounds that these provide greater autonomy over production and marketing, and allow a greater share of value to be realised for producers and the wider community
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A perfect match? The co-creation of the tomato and beneficial insects markets Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Laure Bonnaud, Guilhem Anzalone
This article analyses interdependencies in the agri-food system; it focuses on the relationships between agri-supply and agricultural production markets, based on a case study of the emergence and development of an insect market for the protection of crops in the tomato production sector. It mobilizes the sociology of market agencements, thus making it possible to highlight the human and non-human
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Importance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 David Arnott, David R. Chadwick, Sophie Wynne-Jones, Norman Dandy, David L. Jones
As the UK leaves the European Union, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which for decades has dictated how and when farming support is delivered, will be replaced with a new UK agricultural policy which will see UK farmers, especially upland livestock farmers, facing a more challenging economic environment and a significant change to the way in which farming support is delivered. This study used
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When regional identities differ over generation: Deinstitutionalisation of regions and regional identities in a regional amalgam Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Miloslav Šerý, Marcela Daňková
Regions are seen as historically conditioned phenomena, and on different scales, they can serve as spaces for the discursively constructed identities of their inhabitants. Yet, little is known about what happens to these identities in the long-term when an old regional structure is deinstitutionalised and replaced by a new structure. This article aims to fill this gap in the knowledge; by exploring
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The farm worker and the ‘drift to the land’. Roots, routes, opportunities and constraints to career pathways in farming Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-06 Caroline Nye
The mass decline in agricultural labour in Britain since the industrial revolution has, until recently, led to the farm worker being fundamentally overlooked within the agricultural research agenda over the last fifty years, while labour shortages in farming persist at a global scale. Data regarding those who actively work at the ‘frontline’ of agriculture is minimal, as are understandings of the career
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Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI robotics Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Katharine Legun, Karly Burch
With the growth of new collaborative design (co-design) strategies for technology development, and increasing media attention on future automation of the farm, food producers are aware of new robotics on the horizon. This paper will discuss how apple growers are anticipating new robotic technologies intended to use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate aspects of the farm, paying particular attention
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Gestures of reconciliation – The case of small primary school closures in rural Austria Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Sigrid Kroismayr
This article addresses the kind of agreements and arrangements made between the mayor, as the municipality's political leader, and the community, in order to minimise potential conflicts and preserve social cohesion during and after the closing process of a local primary school. The concept of the “gift”, as conceptualised and discussed by Marcel Mauss serves as theoretical approach to help to better
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Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Katherine S. Nelson, Tuan D. Nguyen, Nathan A. Brownstein, Devon Garcia, Hayden C. Walker, Jordan T. Watson, Aote Xin
Definitions and measures of rurality are important to researchers and policymakers as they have implications for policy and practice. By conducting a systematic review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which rurality has been defined and operationalized in empirical and quantitative analyses. We describe how descriptive definitions and measures of rurality have changed over
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Digital fooding, cashless marketplaces and reconnection in intermediated third places: Conceptualizing metropolitan food provision in the age of prosumption Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Raphaël Stephens, Marc Barbier
This article adopts the concept of prosumption in order to better understand the array of contemporary food sustainability transition initiatives that often come under the umbrella term of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). AFNs have developed in parallel to prosumption, which is significant because AFNs are oriented towards localized and direct relationships between producers and consumers, while prosumption
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Agricultural cooperatives contributing to the alleviation of rural poverty. The case of Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Oriana Gava, Zahra Ardakani, Adela Delalić, Nour Azzi, Fabio Bartolini
In contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina, rural poverty is an unresolved issue, despite farming having been a poverty coping strategy for many rural dwellers, especially after the end of the Balkan war. Eradicating poverty is among the priorities of the national government that aims at EU candidacy and accession. Being the most dynamic among agricultural sectors, berry farming is a key agricultural activity
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Expanding the ontological horizons of rural resilience in the applied agricultural research policy: The case of the Czech Republic Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Martin Pelucha, Jana Kourilova, Edward Kasabov, Marek Feurich
This paper critically analyses and discusses the research gap regarding the current lack of reflection on the importance and potential of applied agricultural research policy for the broader aspects of rural resilience. The basis of the paper is the evaluation and critical reflection of the relevance of applied agricultural research policy to the needs of agricultural practice at the national level
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The persistence of credit–labor interlinked transactions in rural Myanmar: The case of Kanyingu Village in Ayeyarwady Delta Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Ikuko Okamoto, Hnin Yu Lwin, Koichi Fujita
Financial inclusion has been one of the key agendas for poverty reduction in development practices since the mid-2000s. However, informal finance has clearly not been completely replaced by formal finance in the Global South. This study examines labor-tying credit, which is one type of informal finance, and based on a case study in the Delta region of Myanmar, the study explores the reason for which
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The rural exodus of young people from empty Spain. Socio-educational aspects Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Vicente Llorent-Bedmar, Verónica C. Cobano-Delgado Palma, María Navarro-Granados
The depopulation of rural areas in Spain, a phenomenon that has given rise to what is currently known as ‘empty Spain’, has become a serious social problem. The mass exodus of the young to the country's cities poses the main threat to rural sustainability. In this paper, at attempt is made to determine the factors that prompt the young to leave the Celtiberian Highlands, one of the most sparsely populated
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Exchanges among farmers’ collectives in support of sustainable agriculture: From review to reconceptualization Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Celina Slimi, Magali Prost, Marianne Cerf, Lorène Prost
Successful sustainable transitions require an understanding of the drivers and resources needed to support the required changes. While the importance of farmers' collectives in these transitions is underlined by various scientific studies and public policies, we lack an overview of how scholars are dealing with this topic. This paper has two main objectives: i) a review of the studies that explore
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Analysing the efficiency of diversified farms: Evidences from Italian FADN data Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Maria Bonaventura Forleo, Vincenzo Giaccio, Luigi Mastronardi, Luca Romagnoli
Based on data drawn from the national section of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database, the study investigates the efficiency of a panel sample of Italian farms practising other gainful activities. An output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis is performed for each year from 2012 to 2017. A second step of analysis is carried out by using the Malmquist Index in order to analyse inter-temporal
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Vacating place, vacated space? A research agenda for places where people leave Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Jessica de Koning, Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis, Jeffrey McNeill, Gerard Prinsen
What happens to rural places when people leave? We propose a research agenda that accounts for the material and immaterial values of depopulating and depopulated places. A three-pronged research framework departing from the notion of place is outlined that focuses on the social and political relations and the natural environment in which vacating places are embedded. We use vignettes of places in Ecuador
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Negotiating the Northwoods: Anti-establishment rural politics in the Northeastern United States Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Claudine Pied
While recent scholarship on rural politics in the United States has focused almost exclusively on right-wing populism, capital's power over the land has also spurred nonpartisan resistance. Financialization of forestland ownership in the United States has diversified how companies profit from the land, whether through carbon sequestration, conservation easements, wind tower leases, or mechanized logging
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Everyday life as a refugee in a rural setting – What determines a sense of belonging and what role can the local community play in generating it? Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Lise Herslund
This paper explores the sense of place and belonging among refugees settled in small towns in Denmark and the role local, rural communities can play in encouraging it. The entry point for creating a sense of place and belonging is rooted in their new everyday lives, the extent to which, and in what form, this is linked to the new small town in which they live, and to what factors might inhibit or promote
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Local place identity: A comparison between residents of rural and urban communities Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Daniel Belanche, Luis V. Casaló, María Ángeles Rubio
This study investigates the differences in place identity between residents of rural and urban communities. Differently from previous research comparing place identity between neighborhoods or countries, our study focuses on the local community type (urban or rural) as a key determinant of place identity. This fills a research gap in environmental social psychology, frequently ignoring the role of
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Indigenous agency in global systems Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Sveinung Eikeland
The article addresses expanding of global economic systems by studying Sámi strategies addressing Norwegian High Northern Policies (NHNP) launched by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2005. NHNP attracted global economy, labour and knowledge to the Arctic region. The Sámi responding are analysed by using agency theories in economic geography, and contributes to expand the content of agencies
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Exploring prosumption: Reconfiguring labor through rural-urban food networks? Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Antonello Podda, Allison Marie Loconto, Davide Arcidiacono, Lara Maestriprieti
The aim of this special issue is to explore emergent phenomena in the agri-food sector through the lens of prosumption, in order to highlight its heuristic value in identifying new and emerging trends in the field, especially focusing on the interplay between social and economic relations. This introduction explores the theoretical foundations of the notion of prosumption and the linkages with the
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Renewable energy derived from agricultural biomass in peripheral rural areas: ‘Vicious circle,’ ‘Gordian knots,’ and turning points Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Artur Myna, Jacek Dobrowolski
The holistic methodology of the article consists of linking spatially differentiated cumulative causality processes and related structural issues in the ‘vicious circle’ of the underutilization of the renewable energy potential of agricultural biomass, with the ‘Gordian knots’ of omissions and errors in public policies. A Gordian knot is a metaphor for a cluster of interdependent, multidimensional
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From diagnosis to action: Understanding youth strengths and hurdles and using decision-making tools to foster youth-inclusive sustainable agriculture intensification Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Leo C. Zulu, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Phillip Grabowski
By 2050, the youth population in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) is expected to exceed 60%. To contain the ensuing youth bulge, reduce unemployment and ‘flight’ from rural areas, and increase agricultural productivity, countries seek policies to enhance youth engagement in agriculture. However, orthodox assumptions and locally-inappropriate policies keep youth engagement low. We use qualitative enquiry with
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Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Ossi I. Ollinaho, Markus Kröger
This article canvasses the current definitions and framings of “agroforestry” in different academic literature and policies. Three key framings of “agroforestry” are identified in the scholarship and explored for their differences. The findings suggest that the distinct schools of research on “agroforestry” focus on distinct points of departure, and these baseline situations from which transitions
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Rural Brexit? The ambivalent politics of rural community, migration and dependency Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Sarah Neal, Anna Gawlewicz, Jesse Heley, Rhys Dafydd Jones
This paper investigates the relationship between rural space and Brexit. It uses the 2016 UK Referendum outcome and the ongoing processes of Brexit as an optic though which to explore the changing configurations of rural communities and the ways in which they both reinforce and problematise the politics and geographies of Brexit. Taking as its starting point the ‘take our country back’ nationalism
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From conversion to conservation to carbon: The changing policy discourse on mangrove governance and use in the Philippines Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Andrew M. Song, Wolfram H. Dressler, Paula Satizábal, Michael Fabinyi
The current focus on mangroves as key ecosystems in mitigating the impacts of climate change has largely neglected the livelihoods of coastal dwellers interacting with mangroves. This article provides a review of scholarly and policy attention paid to these social groups and their means of struggle. It argues that the latest dominant governance discourse tying mangroves to blue carbon signifies a departure
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Contested hope for the future - Rural refugee reception as municipal survival? Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Christine Hudson, Linda Sandberg
Rural communities in the inland areas of Northern Sweden have long suffered from a steady population decline as young people, particularly women, have moved to the growing urban areas for education/employment. However, in recent years, alongside strategies for survival relating to tourism/hospitality industry, refugee reception has emerged as a strategy for survival whereby these rural municipalities
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Farm-based day care on the market: The case of dementia care services in Norway Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Maja Farstad, Brit Logstein, Marit S. Haugen, Deirdre O'Connor
In line with the multifunctional agriculture discourse, care farming is highlighted by governments as a promising service—as an additional source of income for farmers and as a current alternative or supplement to ordinary public care services. Based on the rather modest number of care farming services and their often unstable existence, this paper examines critical aspects of the market relation between
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Primary school closures and population development – is school vitality an investment in the attractiveness of the (rural) communities or not? Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Olli Lehtonen
Over the last two decades, many municipalities in Finland have attempted to cut costs by closing small schools. In particular, rural schools with low enrolment have been the target of these savings. The main argument has been that out-migration and depopulation require adjustments to public infrastructure. This continuing tendency has raised many concerns about the effect of school closures on rural
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Co-designing a smartphone app for and with farmers: Empathising with end-users’ values and needs Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Ursula Kenny, Áine Regan
As the use of smartphone technology is becoming increasingly popular in the agricultural context, there is a need to consider how farmers have adapted to this form of technology. The current study examined the factors which influence Irish farmers’ engagement with smartphone use and new smartphone apps and explored the supports required by farmers to successfully engage with smartphone apps for agriculture
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A quantitative analysis on Romanian rural areas, agritourism and the impacts of European Union’s financial subsidies Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Nicola Galluzzo
The European Union's specific financial subsidies have supported pluriactivity development in farms through agritourism. By allocating specific funds aimed at encouraging farm diversification and increasing farmers' income, the European Union seeks to reduce rural marginalisation due to emigration, which is a central target of the Common Agricultural Policy. Thus, this research aims to quantitatively
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Evaluating rural viability and well-being: Evidence from marginal areas in Tuscany Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Leonardo Casini, Fabio Boncinelli, Francesca Gerini, Caterina Romano, Gabriele Scozzafava, Caterina Contini
Promoting the viability of rural areas is a major objective of the European development and agricultural policies. One of the key aspects for the success of these policies is represented by the possibility to monitor the quality of life in all of its dimensions: social, economic, and environmental. The implementation of tools capable of pointing out the principal criticalities of human satisfaction
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Gambling in the garden: Pesticide use and risk exposure in Ugandan smallholder farming Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Elina Andersson, Ellinor Isgren
The use and promotion of pesticides is on the increase in many sub-Saharan African countries, including in the smallholder sector. This paper stems from placed-based research in Uganda and aims at advancing current knowledge on smallholder farmers' motivations for pesticide use, the extent and character of such use, as well as on lived experiences regarding the impacts of pesticides. Data was generated
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Competitiveness of diversification strategies in agricultural dairy farms: Empirical findings for rural regions in Switzerland Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Andreas Hochuli, Janina Hochuli, Dierk Schmid
Compared to all other branches of Swiss agriculture, milk production has the largest economic significance. The price pressure on Swiss dairy farms is growing even though the market is heavily protected by tariff barriers in relation to Europe and the rest of the world. Against this background, the question arises for dairy farms as to which strategic orientation for their own farm is most profitable
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Encroached by pine and eucalyptus? A grounded theory on an environmental conflict between forest industry and smallholder livelihoods in Chile Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Andreas Christian Braun
Plantation forestry has economic, social, and ecological potentials, such as the opportunity for jobs, income and economic development, or possible carbon storage and soil protection. However, plantation forestry, if inappropriately managed and spatially integrated, has been shown to raise environmental conflicts with stakeholders in the vicinity of plantations. To avoid and manage such conflicts,
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Mapping the past: Using ethnography and local spatial knowledge to characterize the Duero River borderlands landscape Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Kyle P. Hearn
The Duero River borderland between Spain and Portugal is a region marked by historic geographic isolation and more recently by economic marginalization. Acknowledged for not only its biodiversity, the cultural landscape is also distinguished by its archaeological, historic, and ethnographic heritage. Due to massive socioeconomic outmigration and a prevalent cultural disdain for the countryside, there
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The role of events in local development: An analysis of residents’ perspectives and visitor satisfaction Journal of Rural Studies (IF 3.544) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Eleftheria Fytopoulou, Stilianos Tampakis, Spyridon Galatsidas, Evangelia Karasmanaki, Georgios Tsantopoulos
Tourism is arguably one of the most promising options for economic prosperity in rural areas. Effective strategies aiming at tourism development, however, should be based on a thorough analysis of residents' preferences as well as visitors' expectations and satisfaction. Hence, the aim of this paper is to investigate residents' views on tourism development and the contribution of various productive
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