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Understanding farmer mental health and wellbeing in a volatile, isolating, and misunderstood industry 了解农民在一个不稳定、孤立和被误解的行业中的心理健康和福祉

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103648

I.W. Garner , D. McFeeters , A. Guy , R. Hopley , N. Galbraith

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Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases 可持续山区发展的价值链：对23个欧洲案例的定性理解

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103640

Kirsty Blackstock , Rachel Creaney , Mar del Mar Delgado-Serrano , Sharon Flanigan , Corrado Ievoli , Michele Moretti , Gusztáv Nemes , Diana Surovà , Chloe Thompson , Lukas Zagata , Tarek Allali , Angelo Belliggiano , Ana Carvalho , Ana Paula Conte , Catarina Esgalhado , Anna Geiser , Jakub Husák , Sandra Karner , Carmen Maestre-Diaz , Raquel Moreno Vicente , Tamara Zivadinovic

{"title":"Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases","authors":"Kirsty Blackstock , Rachel Creaney , Mar del Mar Delgado-Serrano , Sharon Flanigan , Corrado Ievoli , Michele Moretti , Gusztáv Nemes , Diana Surovà , Chloe Thompson , Lukas Zagata , Tarek Allali , Angelo Belliggiano , Ana Carvalho , Ana Paula Conte , Catarina Esgalhado , Anna Geiser , Jakub Husák , Sandra Karner , Carmen Maestre-Diaz , Raquel Moreno Vicente , Tamara Zivadinovic","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103640","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103640","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents findings using a novel, qualitative and interpretative approach to value chain assessment. The approach was used to further understand sustainable mountain development. The findings result from 23 diverse cases across 16 European countries, including value chains that focus on animal production for meat and dairy products, arable, horticultural and alcohol production as well as tourism and public goods. The paper focuses on three types of value (economic, socio-cultural and environmental) that are developed along the four stages of each value chain (Production, Processing, Distribution/Marketing and Consumption). It addresses how and why value chain actors perceived changes to these three types of values, including how the value chain is tele-coupled with other sending or receiving systems; and how the focal value chains intertwine with other mountain value chains. In general, the value chains actors’ perceived that positive values were added, supporting sustainable mountain development in our cases, but the findings were most positive for economic issues and least positive for environmental issues. Findings support neo-endogenous rural development arguments. Local cooperation and certification of sustainable practices seem to support valorisation and retain these values in the mountains. We contend that using a value chain lens for mountain development has helped improve the breadth of analysis and highlights the need to consider non-mountain actors and processes within sustainable development processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 103640"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143888286","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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How does technology transfer evolve in rural regions? Transferors, recipients, and the role of absorptive capacity in developing economies 农村地区的技术转让如何演变？发展中经济体的转移者、接受者和吸收能力的作用

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103688

Magnus Holmén , Deycy Janeth Sanchez-Preciado , Daniel Ljungberg

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Crop booms at subtropic frontiers: smallholder coffee production and agrarian change in Southwest China 亚热带边疆的作物繁荣：中国西南小农咖啡生产和土地变化

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103672

Jun He , Siyun Xiong , Zoe Wang

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Impact of COVID mobility measures on the financial performance of small business in rural areas of Spain COVID流动性措施对西班牙农村地区小企业财务绩效的影响

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103687

David Peón , Vik Singh , Jorge Rodríguez-Álvarez

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Ageing in rural areas as a mode of active ageing 农村老龄化作为积极老龄化的一种模式

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103679

Marcela Petrová Kafková, Lucie Vidovićová

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Beyond the initial boom: Energy transitions can improve rural development indicators 超越最初的繁荣：能源转型可以改善农村发展指标

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103659

Simone Felton , David A. Fleming-Muñoz , Tom Measham

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Quantifying the influence of sociocognitive factors on land use changes in agricultural regions: Application of the social cognitive theory 量化社会认知因素对农区土地利用变化的影响：社会认知理论的应用

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103681

Fardin Kamali , Amir Reza Nasiri , Mohammad Reza Nikoo , Reza Kerachian

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Access to transport, life satisfaction and the mental wellbeing of rural older people in England under austerity 交通便利、生活满意度和英国农村老年人的心理健康状况

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103680

Stefanie Doebler

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Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa 南非农村痴呆症护理景观

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103677

Michelle R. Brear , Themby Nkovana , Lenore Manderson

{"title":"Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa","authors":"Michelle R. Brear , Themby Nkovana , Lenore Manderson","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103677","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103677","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How does place shape informal caregiving for and by ageing people with cognitive impairment in rural South Africa? Drawing on the care ecology framework, relational conceptualisations of “landscapes,” and ethnographic research, we illustrate the complexity of informal caregiving for people living with dementia through a case study of 59-year-old Nonisa, who often became confused and forgetful and would sometimes become lost. In Nonisa's rural village, community members drew on historically produced and embodied knowledge and emotions to intervene in beneficial ways, preventing Nonisa wandering far afield, helping to search for her, and/or finding her and returning her home if she became disoriented or lost. When Nonisa disappeared in a major city, she was found by the police, but identifying her via social media and getting her home relied on an informal network of rural community members who knew Nonisa. Faced with an increasing need for someone to consistently watch over Nonisa and ensure her safety, her family unsuccessfully sought access to a government grant to pay a caregiver. We discuss Nonisa's rural village as a diffusely-bounded, networked landscape of care. We highlight how, in addition to physical paths and emotional bonds, cognitive ties and embodied knowledge between people in the caringscape (informal care system) connected locations at different scales and facilitated caregiving, in beneficial ways. Conversely, passive neglect in the formal care system had detrimental effects. We discuss the implications of this for ageing in place in resource-constrained rural communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103677"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923565","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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