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Agri-tech startups in India: Knowledge recombination under resource constraints 印度农业科技创业公司：资源约束下的知识重组

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104226

Rashid Parvez Khan , Saurabh Gupta , Regina Birner , Dhirendra Mani Shukla , Thomas Daum

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Beyond the conventional-alternative divide in agrifood transformation: Proximity combinations for scaling sustainability innovations 超越农业食品转型中的传统-替代鸿沟：扩大可持续性创新的邻近组合

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104227

Alexandra Frangenheim , Marianne Penker

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Not-so-digital platforms? Non-use, (in)appropriate technologies, and offline dimensions of digital agricultural services for smallholders in rural Africa Not-so-digital平台?非洲农村小农数字农业服务的未使用、（不）适当技术和线下维度

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104210

Fabio Gatti , Oane Visser , Mary Lorine Obala , Emelia Atabo , Sam Nicholas Atanga

{"title":"Not-so-digital platforms? Non-use, (in)appropriate technologies, and offline dimensions of digital agricultural services for smallholders in rural Africa","authors":"Fabio Gatti , Oane Visser , Mary Lorine Obala , Emelia Atabo , Sam Nicholas Atanga","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital agricultural platforms are widely promoted as transformative tools for smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa. From market price alerts to bundled credit and weather forecasts, these platforms promise to modernize agriculture through scalable, low-cost digital services. Yet empirical evidence reveals a growing disconnect between these promises and the reality on-the-ground. Drawing on multi-year qualitative fieldwork in Ghana and Kenya, this paper examines why many platforms struggle to achieve meaningful engagement among smallholders. Despite high subscription numbers, actual use is limited, uneven, and often short-lived. While dominant explanations tend to attribute this to infrastructural or user deficits—such as low digital literacy, poor connectivity, or limited smartphone availability—, our findings show that disengagement more often stems from inaccurate or poorly timed advice, limited interactivity, and the use of tools that fail to align with farmers' needs. Peer networks, low-tech devices, and general-purpose channels (such as WhatsApp or phone calls) often outperform platform services in terms of relevance and trust. We argue that these shortcomings are not primarily due to infrastructural or users’ deficits, but reflect deeper limitations in the platform model itself, which prioritizes scalability and control over adaptability and farmer agency. Situating our analysis at the intersection of critical agrifood studies, data studies, and science and technology studies (STS), the paper highlights the need to attend to the power relations, human dimensions, and everyday frictions that shape digital agriculture in practice. For rural and development studies, these findings caution against treating digitalization as inherently progressive and call for closer engagement with critical data studies beyond the classic theorizations of platform capitalism in urban contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104210"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148168598","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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Corrigendum to “Assemblages of terror and the policing of settlement boundaries: Devolution and the production of order in northern Kenya” [J. Rural Stud., 124, May 2026, 104084] “恐怖组织与边界治安：肯尼亚北部地区权力下放与秩序的产生”[J]。农村学生。[2026年5月24日，104084]

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104195

Evelyne Atieno Owino

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Effect of China's new rural pension scheme on the consumption of relatively poor households 中国新型农村养老保险制度对相对贫困家庭消费的影响

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104196

Bing He , Jianying Wang , Jian Wu , Guoheng Hu

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Corrigendum to ‘Claiming land in heterogenous bureaucracies: The daily labor and decadal cycles of land rights movements in Karnataka, India’ [J. Rural Stud. 122, February 2026, 104003] “在异质官僚机构中主张土地：印度卡纳塔克邦土地权利运动的日常劳动和十年周期”的更正[J]。农村Stud. 122, 2026年2月，104003]

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104150

Ananya Karol Rao

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Corrigendum to “China's agricultural upgrade: Digital inclusive finance driving high-quality development” [J. Rural Stud., Volume 121 (2026), 103927] “中国农业升级：数字普惠金融驱动高质量发展”勘误表[J]。农村学生。，第121卷（2026），103927]

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104157

Liangen Zeng , Yuandong Zou , Yisha Fu , Yanfeng Jiang , Xiaoyan Zhang , Linlin Dai , Yiqing Su

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Compounded disadvantages in rural regions: A configurational analysis for understanding development deficits in southern Philippines 农村地区的综合劣势：了解菲律宾南部发展缺陷的结构分析

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104193

Catherine Roween C. Almaden

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Rural insights into the contested spaces of older voluntarism 乡村对旧自愿主义竞争空间的洞察

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104107

Amber Zapletal , Mark W. Skinner , Erika Snowden , Elizabeth Russell

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Corrigendum to ‘Social network analysis to identify actors for participatory food system transformation – Learning from two case studies in Switzerland’ [J. Rural Stud. 123 (2026) 104071] 对“社会网络分析，以确定参与式食品系统转型的行动者-从瑞士的两个案例研究中学习”的更正[J]。农村工厂123 (2026)104071]

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104161

Tobias Geisser, Alice H. Aubert

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