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{"title":"Farmers’ motives, goals, values, and participation in agricultural training programs: Uncovering the links in short food supply chains","authors":"Chrysanthi Charatsari ,&nbsp;Iosif Fragkoulis ,&nbsp;Evagelos D. Lioutas","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103719","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103719","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the ambitious European policy targets for upskilling the actors operating in the agrifood sector, farmers' participation rates in agricultural training programs remain low in many countries. To understand why, a pivotal step is to answer two questions. First, what motivates farmers to attend training activities? Second, how do their goals and values interplay with their motivational profiles to affect their intention to participate and actual participation in training? With two cross-sectional quantitative studies focusing on Greece, which has the lowest percentage of agricultural training attendees in the European Union, we aimed to address these questions. Building upon the Self-Determination Theory's autonomous/controlled motivation distinction and relying on data from farmers who distribute their products through short food supply chains (<em>n</em>_{Study 1} = 99, n_{Study 2} = 93), we arrived at a paradox: Although autonomous motivation is critical for shaping farmers' willingness to attend training activities, participation in previous programs is associated with controlled motivation. Attendees of such programs are externally motivated and amotivated individuals who attach higher importance to professional success. At the other end of the spectrum, internally motivated farmers who pursue collective goals and endorse the value of self-development express a high willingness to participate that, however, is not translated into attendance. From a practical standpoint, this paradox reveals that connecting participation in agricultural training with external rewards (e.g., access to subsidies) creates an unfavorable environment for energizing potential attendees' volitional motivation. The present work contributes to our knowledge of the factors catalyzing participation in agricultural training programs by indicating that farmers are more willing to participate in such initiatives when they value learning and associate it with attaining personal development and collective goals than when they <em>must</em> participate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103719"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203332","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}

{"title":"Understanding coalitions' emotion-belief expressions and rural identity: An ACF study of Colorado's “MeatOut”","authors":"Kayla M. Gabehart","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past decade, the United States has experienced increasing political polarization and populism, often aligned with rural-urban divides. A notable example emerged in 2021, when Colorado Governor Jared Polis issued a proclamation declaring March 20th, 2021 as MeatOut Day, encouraging residents to abstain from eating meat for that day. This initiative sparked significant backlash from rural communities against the Denver-based Governor, resulting in an emotionally charged discourse between opposing groups. This study employs the Advocacy Coalition Framework to analyze this conflict, examining two key questions: <em>How do coalitions, defined by rural-urban divisions, express emotions and beliefs in a policy conflict, and how do the attributes of these coalitions differ?</em> The findings reveal that in policy conflicts that implicate rural life, distinct coalitions form along rural-urban divides, each characterized by unique emotional-belief expressions. The study identifies a \"rural effect,\" characterized by deep core beliefs rooted in rural identity and negative emotions, while urban actors' policy discourse primarily draws upon policy core beliefs and positive emotions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103713"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203525","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}

{"title":"Politics of rural land acquisition in Africa: The evidence from Chinese agricultural investments in Tanzania and Zambia","authors":"Yuezhou Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103727","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103727","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The contemporary processes of rural land acquisitions have been studied primarily through the lens of land grabbing and dispossession. Recent literature starts to emphasize the important and nuanced role of domestic institutions in shaping foreign land investment. This paper contributes to this scholarship by systematically analysing how subnational land tenure regimes (LTRs) shape the <em>locational</em> choices of Chinese agricultural investments (CAgriIs). The analysis is based on an original case database of CAgriIs in Tanzania and Zambia constructed using fieldwork data. I find that Chinese investors have significantly stronger preference for a private property regime where foreign land access and landholding are supposedly supported by the host state. Additionally, the other types of LTRs that authorities have discretionary power of land allocation over, receive much lower levels of CAgriIs. The findings reveal nuances in land politics in the process of rural land acquisitions in Africa, which put the land grabs and dispossession narrative in question.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103727"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203338","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}

{"title":"“It's such a big ask for a volunteer”: Community transport as a sticking plaster solution to rural transport poverty","authors":"Léa Ravensbergen ,&nbsp;Tim Schwanen","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103718","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Compared to urban settings, rural areas are characterised by high rates of car ownership and few alternative transport options. This can lead to transport poverty, especially among older adults without car access. Community transport, not-for-profit and primarily volunteer-run local transport schemes, helps to address this rural transport poverty in the UK. This paper focuses on the emergence and evolution of these schemes, presenting a critical analysis that traces the researchers’ discomfort that arose during a study on community transport in Oxfordshire. Unpacking this discomfort draws attention to two societal processes that have shaped the emergence and evolution of community transport: neoliberalism and automobility. Results indicate how community transport can be rolled out in response to the neoliberal roll-back of the state, in this case cuts to bus subsidies and the National Health Service (NHS). However, community transport is often itself rolled-back by the state as part of further rounds of financial cuts, prompting providers to improvise ways to continue what they understand to be an essential service. Further, community transport emerges as a car-based solution in increasingly car-dependent contexts and, as such, re-enforces and further normalizes automobility. Although community transport schemes address rural transport poverty, they do not at present tackle the source of this challenge: the interconnected processes of neoliberalism and automobility. The paper concludes with a discussion of the current role of the community sector as a sticking plaster solution to rural transport poverty, as well as its potential role in contributing to the dismantling of neoliberalism and automobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103718"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203337","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}

{"title":"Exploring the relationship between the symbolic representation of deinstitutionalised regions and the regional identity of their inhabitants","authors":"Miloslav Šerý","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103715","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103715","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article attempts to contribute to our knowledge of regions, which are understood to be the result of long-term developmental processes. Using Moravia (the Czech Republic) as a case study, we explore the symbolic shapes of old regions, particularly those that have undergone deinstitutionalisation. In our research we investigate whether the regional identity of rural residents inhabiting deinstitutionalised regions affects their actions in relation to how their region's symbols are used, and conversely, how these symbols have an impact on their regional identity. For this purpose, we selected a specific symbol of the region: the regional flag. Methodologically, the article is grounded in quantitative approaches to secondary data analysis, using traditional census data alongside original data concerning the display of regional flags. Our findings indicate that although having a strong regional identity can promote the use of the symbols of a deinstitutionalised region, the utilisation of regional flags in the symbolic representation of old regions has ambiguous effects. Thus, the regional identity of deinstitutionalised regions seems to be a complex and intricate process that remains worth investigating.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103715"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195085","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}

{"title":"Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni","authors":"Ester Noguer-Juncà ,&nbsp;Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fascination with wine, as well as its culture and production, has contributed to the recent boom in the economic and tourism sectors. This research analyzes, from a supply-side perspective, the territorial development strategies underlying wine production and commercialization in the form of a case study of the New Wine Festival and the Farmer Wine Festival, two events that are held every November in the town of Calonge i Sant Antoni (Catalonia), once that year's first wine has been produced. Primary data is collected via direct observation and 15 semi-structured interviews with local (branded) winegrowers, farmer wine agribusinesses, and representatives of administrations and associations that are actively involved in the organization of these festivals. The findings underscore the collaboration between coexisting quality-certified winegrowers and agribusinesses, which together support the town's wine identity and culture. The public administration's interest in leveraging cultural events to promote economic and socio-cultural synergies between the local population and visitors is also highlighted. This paper contributes to the literature by acknowledging the need to create networks among all wine producers to promote the local identity and make the town more competitive by offering authentic and unique experiences. The findings should also help the public sector to identify the strengths and weaknesses of local wine producers, in order to bolster their authenticity, socio-cultural value, financial profits, and status as tourist destinations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103726"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195084","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}

{"title":"Mobilizing capitals, forging terroir: Lifestyle migration and envisioning a “better rural landscape”","authors":"Betül Aydoğan,&nbsp;Serhat Güney","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103714","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103714","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban-to-rural lifestyle migration, the phenomenon of relocating to rural places for a “better life”, increasingly reshapes rural territories, often driven by entrepreneurial initiatives. While this presents new challenges, it can also encourage community-focused uses of local resources. Employing “the capitals framework,” this study examines (1) how entrepreneurial lifestyle migrants in Urla, Turkey, mobilize their social, economic, and cultural capitals to plan and implement their vision of rural landscapes and (2) how their terroir tourism initiatives (specifically the Urla Artichoke Festival and Vineyard Route Project) transform and reconfigure place-specific capitals. We argue that these migrants are enthusiastic about terroir-focused economic opportunities, using their diverse capitals to alter the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This process can also stimulate place-specific economic and cultural assets and draw local communities into new entrepreneurial activities. Our ethnographic research reveals that although lifestyle migrants are often pioneers of gentrification, they engage in a complex balancing act: their economic capital-oriented planning for high-value terroir businesses is strategically intertwined with their social and cultural capital to preserve the valued rural texture against global tourism market pressures. Ultimately, the transmutability and interplay they generate between capitals through collective, often semi-formal actions contribute to the production of a fragmented and contested “better rural landscape,” marked by selective benefits, new socio-spatial inequalities, and a “discordant countryside” where power dynamics are crucial.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103714"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195086","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}

{"title":"Return to the rural: Ambivalent place attachment among youth in rural Spain","authors":"Alba Carrasco-Cruz,&nbsp;Fátima Cruz-Souza","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103724","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103724","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although the Spanish rural areas continue to face significant challenges of depopulation and demographic imbalances due to the selective exodus of young people, there has been a recent increase in return migration, where these young people choose to return to their places of origin after training and living in urban environments. This study aims to explore these return processes, with a focus on the meanings of place that shape the affective ties to rural territories. A qualitative methodology, based on 16 semi-structured in-depth interviews, was employed in two study areas, corresponding to rural mountain regions in central and northern Spain. The results reveal important ambivalences in the attachment to place among young returnees. While they associate the return with positive meanings of rurality, primarily linked to the natural environment and the community fabric, they also describe negative meanings related to perceptions of deprivation. These meanings are framed within the symbolic hierarchy typical of urban normative societies and are accentuated in the case of returnees, due to the expectations generated during their time in urban environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103724"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144190255","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}

{"title":"Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism","authors":"Juliana Bennett ,&nbsp;Maris Boyd Gillette ,&nbsp;Eva Maria Jernsand","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103729"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144184412","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}

{"title":"The endurance of the rural idyll. The evolution of urban-rural migrants’ images of rural areas in Mediterranean Spain","authors":"José A. Donaire ,&nbsp;Núria Galí ,&nbsp;Luis del Romero","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103730"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144184411","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}