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Reinforcing protective structures against labor exploitation of seasonal workers. Social innovation research in South Tyrol

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103597

Franca Zadra, Susanne Elsen

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Burning perceptions that integrate wellbeing and ecosystem services to inform fire governance in the Peruvian Andes

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103610

Vanessa Luna-Celino , Karen A. Kainer , Rachel Carmenta , Bette Loiselle , Aslhey Cuellar

{"title":"Burning perceptions that integrate wellbeing and ecosystem services to inform fire governance in the Peruvian Andes","authors":"Vanessa Luna-Celino , Karen A. Kainer , Rachel Carmenta , Bette Loiselle , Aslhey Cuellar","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103610","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103610","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fire is an essential tool enabling tropical subsistence agriculture, but can escape beyond its intended borders when not adequately controlled. Indeed this risk may be increasing under changing ecological and climatic shifts with implications for what constitutes adequate fire management. Understanding the perceptions of key actors about the role of fire and effective management is a crucial step in fire governance because it exposes views and can facilitate transparent decision-making and conflict management. Drawing on frameworks of wellbeing and ecosystem services, we conducted Q methodology with 56 fire users and managers, including subsistence-based Quechua farmers, firefighters, researchers, nonprofit staff, and government agents. Factor analysis revealed three distinct viewpoints on the role of fire, ranging from emphasizing the negative impacts of escaped fires on ecosystem services (e.g., on biodiversity and climate change impacts) to acknowledging benefits of intentional fires for rural wellbeing (e.g., that agricultural burns open new farmland or fire as the most accessible way to work the farm). We also found three viewpoints regarding fire management deemed effective: top-down fire suppression, community-based fire suppression, and community-based fire management. Integrating these diverse perspectives, actionable insights for decision making should include: legal recognition of traditional controlled burns, training programs that support volunteer community fire brigades, and integrated fire management solutions at multiple scales (community, district, regional, and national). Our analysis, grounded in the Peruvian Andes, suggests pathways for effective fire governance that can reconcile the different needs, uses, and types of fire.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103610"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143510069","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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The role of family in shaping adaptation and adaptive capacity in small-scale fishing communities: The yellow clam fishers in Uruguay

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103601

Farah El-Shayeb , Jeremy Pittman , Gabriela Jorge-Romero , Ignacio Gianelli , Omar Defeo

{"title":"The role of family in shaping adaptation and adaptive capacity in small-scale fishing communities: The yellow clam fishers in Uruguay","authors":"Farah El-Shayeb , Jeremy Pittman , Gabriela Jorge-Romero , Ignacio Gianelli , Omar Defeo","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103601","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103601","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) face numerous challenges, including resource overexploitation and precarious livelihoods due to limited or ineffective formal and institutional governance systems. In addressing the multifaceted challenges SSFs confront, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and livelihood security, understanding their adaptive capacity becomes fundamental. Various social factors, including family dynamics, influence adaptive capacity. This paper presents an in-depth case study from Uruguay, examining the role of families in the yellow clam SSFs' adaptive capacity. It explores the influence of family ties and their impact on adaptation processes. The study draws on diverse datasets to highlight families' role in building adaptive capacity within SSFs. We find that family networks are a significant driver of other types of important social networks in communities (e.g., labor, governance, and knowledge). Additionally, family structures within communities influence key adaptive processes, such as the marketing of harvest within value chains. Our findings emphasize the significance of family as local, informal institutions and networks to strengthen capacity to manage diverse stressors and resources. Empirically, the paper sheds light on the intricate web of connections that are pivotal for the functioning of fisheries communities and the complex interplay between fisheries and family dynamics, and our work is important for informing policy interventions aimed at enhancing adaptive capacity through existing social capital.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103601"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103614

Junxi Qian , Shenjing He , Darren Smith

{"title":"Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality","authors":"Junxi Qian , Shenjing He , Darren Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This editorial introduction aims to frame the special issue entitled “Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality”. Problematising the dominant planetary urbanisation thesis, particularly its tendency in eliding alternative spaces, subjectivities, and politics to the global expansion of capitalist urban fabrics, this special issue seeks to rethink the rural-urban interface through the lenses of relationality and planetary rural geographies, highlighting the promiscuous interpenetration between the urban and the rural, the planetary significance of rurality, and, hence, the need to reassert the rural as a distinct spatial ontology and category. To move forward this theoretical agenda, this editorial situates our investigation of the rural-urban interface within a long pedigree of research on rural-urban interaction, coordination, or integration. However, such works are often leaned towards the dissemination of urban economic functions into rural places and often leave limited discursive space for a conceptual and theoretical rethinking of rurality per se. We advance the latter by building on a heuristic of “worlding” at the rural-urban interface, and bring this epistemology into a direct conversation with the six papers of this special issue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103614"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471215","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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Why dairy farmers leave the industry: The role of control, autonomy, and self-efficacy

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103600

G. Holmes , M. Osei , J. Bray , R. Discetti

{"title":"Why dairy farmers leave the industry: The role of control, autonomy, and self-efficacy","authors":"G. Holmes , M. Osei , J. Bray , R. Discetti","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103600","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While global demand for milk and dairy products grows, the number of dairy farms in the United Kingdom has fallen by 56% in the last 20 years, coupled with a decline in cows and farmers' numbers. Research has explored a wide range of factors impacting dairy farmers' decision to leave the industry early; however, these factors are collated from a diversity of individual studies, and we lack a comprehensive understanding of <em>what</em> individual factors are more prominent in driving dairy farmers' decision and <em>how</em> factors may interplay within a single study context. To address this gap, we utilised an explanatory sequential mixed-methods research design, including a questionnaire (n = 335) followed by in-depth interviews (n = 21) with current and former dairy farmers in the UK. Findings identified a complex interplay among Profitability, Compliance and Regulation, Milk Price, Investments, Mental Health, Physical Health, Availability of Labour, Animal Welfare, Anti-dairy Sentiment, Succession, Milk Contracts, Climate Change, and Family Pressures. Our paper contributes to existing literature in three ways. First, we offer a comprehensive overview of the factors influencing dairy farmers’ intention to leave the industry early; second, we discuss how these factors interrelate dynamically, providing a model of the phenomenon highlighting the central role of control, autonomy, and self-efficacy; third, we provide insights on a fruitful empirical context, as the UK context captures current European trends on dairy farm exit and includes a diversity of farm types found across different geographic contexts, increasing the wider applicability of findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103600"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143464153","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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Factors affecting farmer participation in agri-environment schemes in the uplands of Northern Ireland

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103598

Barry Quinn , Stuart Henderson , Lynsey Hollywood , Simone Angioloni , Paul Caskie

{"title":"Factors affecting farmer participation in agri-environment schemes in the uplands of Northern Ireland","authors":"Barry Quinn , Stuart Henderson , Lynsey Hollywood , Simone Angioloni , Paul Caskie","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103598","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103598","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agri-environment schemes (AES) have long been used as a policy lever to promote pro-environmental behaviours within farming communities. However, the role of AES is now becoming more prominent as subsidies to farmers increasingly shift from productive to environmental goals. Yet, questions remain about how to overcome entrenched barriers to widening AES participation, and how to deliver more radical systems-level transformation via such schemes. Focusing on the upland context, this paper explores how perceptions and experiences of AES inform receptiveness to future AES participation and new forms of environmental action (especially results-based schemes and peatland restoration). The paper specifically focuses on beef and sheep upland farm settings within Northern Ireland, with data collected through a series of group discussions across the region. The results show that while there are entrenched (and often critical) views towards AES, as well as a perception of existing strength in environmental stewardship, nevertheless, behavioural change towards new and more radical approaches is possible via future AES.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103598"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pension provision in the farming sector – Lessons from Europe

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103596

Hana Hlochova , Bridget McNally , Michael T. Hayden , Anne Kinsella

{"title":"Pension provision in the farming sector – Lessons from Europe","authors":"Hana Hlochova , Bridget McNally , Michael T. Hayden , Anne Kinsella","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103596","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pension security for the self-employed within the EU has been improved by recent pension reforms, nevertheless gaps persist, and the self-employed remain a vulnerable group in this regard. The self-employed in Ireland overall have lower levels of pension in comparison to those in employment and self-employed farmers have the lowest pension cover with many not planning to ever retire. This is despite the fact that self-employed farmers predominantly begin their working life earlier and spend a longer time in employment than the employed. The objective of this study is to assess the design of the social security pension system for farmers in five countries which have bespoke social security pension systems for farmers, to identify gaps in the current Irish social security pension system for farmers and highlight the need internationally for a bespoke system for farmers. The five countries examined, (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, and Poland) are members of the European Network of Agricultural Protection Systems (ENASP) which focuses on a broad spectrum of social security issues. Retirement pensions is one of its key areas of interest and thus the pension systems of these five countries provide an important benchmark for international comparison. In the Irish context, the findings suggest that Ireland lags in terms of its social security pension system, as it applies to farmers. Reform is needed to ensure full social welfare pension coverage for this cohort to protect their financial welfare in retirement and to support the farm succession process. We suggest some practical solutions in this regard.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103596"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Workload and remuneration on farms in the south of France: The uncertain future of agroecology

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103588

Sébastien Bainville, Claire Aubron, Olivier Philippon

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Pathways linking WASH access and women's empowerment: Evidence from Zambia and Honduras

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103602

Jingru Jia , Anna Snider , Anissa Collishaw , Paul E. McNamara , Emmanuel Tumusiime

{"title":"Pathways linking WASH access and women's empowerment: Evidence from Zambia and Honduras","authors":"Jingru Jia , Anna Snider , Anissa Collishaw , Paul E. McNamara , Emmanuel Tumusiime","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103602","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103602","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving universal access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and facilities is considered essential for gender equality and empowerment, yet empirical evidence of how and what WASH is essential for responding to the challenges of women's gender equality and empowerment in low-income countries is limited.</div><div>This study analyzes cross-sectional data from Zambia and Honduras to examine the relationship between access to WASH services and women's empowerment, measured by indicators of intrinsic, instrumental, and collective agency. We find significant correlations between access to WASH and women's intrinsic and instrumental agency. This correlation is stronger in Zambia than Honduras, highlighting that relationships are spatially heterogeneous. Notably, we find that households that treat their water are correlated with women's input into agricultural production decisions. These results demonstrate that the relationship between WASH access and women's empowerment is multifaceted, and more evidence is needed to understand underlying mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103602"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beyond income: Professional objectives and job satisfaction of farmers. An empirical study in France 收入之外：农民的职业目标和工作满意度。法国的实证研究

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103599

Soazig Di Bianco, Maha Ben Jaballah, Nejla ben Arfa, Bertille Thareau

{"title":"Beyond income: Professional objectives and job satisfaction of farmers. An empirical study in France","authors":"Soazig Di Bianco, Maha Ben Jaballah, Nejla ben Arfa, Bertille Thareau","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study evaluates the diversity of farmers according to their professional goals and determines the factors, beyond income, that contribute to farmers' job satisfaction. From the job characterization approach and the goal setting theory, it broadens the modeling of job satisfaction including a pre-definition of professional goals with farmers. A questionnaire and interviews were used to collect data. Mixed socio-economic research methods were used to analyze the collected data, particularly a multiple factor analysis and an ordinal logistic regression model. The results show a positive correlation at a statistically significant level between the use of digital tools, the presence of a potential successor and the level of achievement of their objective and the farmer's job satisfaction. On the other hand, specialization, years of service on the farm, off-farm work, and the presentation of economic objectives as a primary professional objective of the farmer, are statistically significant and negatively correlated with the level of job satisfaction of farmers. Our study points out the diversity of work conception among farmers and discusses their job satisfaction and its implications for thinking decent work in agriculture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103599"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436960","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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