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{"title":"Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition","authors":"Annemarieke de Bruin ,&nbsp;Imke J.M. de Boer ,&nbsp;Niels R. Faber ,&nbsp;Katrien J.A.M. Termeer ,&nbsp;Evelien M. de Olde","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103669","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103669","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Across the world, including in the Netherlands, a transition is unfolding towards sustainable and just food systems. Despite this directionality, the risk remains that the transition process reproduces existing injustices and/or creates new ones. In transitions, perceptions of justice play a critical role as perceived injustices can create disengagement or protest, whereas perceived justice can increase people's willingness to make changes or carry costs of the transition. However, what is perceived as (un)just is context specific and defined by people through their relations within the food system. The aim of this paper is to complement current research on justice perceptions in food system transitions with insights into their situated, relational nature. In a regional case study, we ask: how do actors from across the food system perceive justice in an ongoing food system transition in the North of the Netherlands? Based on data from interviews and a workshop we analysed the food system situations that people judged as (un)just and the relationships within these situations. We identify five overarching food system situations which people perceived as (un)just: changes in production practices, food prices, the capacity to participate, and societal appreciation and critique, and the unequal distribution of power that has not changed. We call for a reflexive food system transition and conclude that attending to the situated, relational nature of justice perceptions in ongoing food system transitions helps to create awareness of, and the opportunity to support or address, existing and new (in)justices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103669"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843062","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":"Policy driven community development in rural and remote Australia: Analysis of University Departments of Rural Health using the Community Capitals framework","authors":"Lisa Bourke ,&nbsp;Robyn McNeil ,&nbsp;Sandra Thompson ,&nbsp;James Debenham ,&nbsp;Kate Freire ,&nbsp;Pamela Harvey ,&nbsp;Leanne Brown","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103658","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103658","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While community development is locally driven, it can stem from government investment. The Australian government has funded 19 University Departments of Rural Health (UDRHs) across Australia as one step to address health workforce shortages in rural and remote regions. These UDRHs train students, conduct research and support local health services and communities. While some UDRH contributions have been assessed, there is a lack of understanding of the impact of UDRHs for their rural and remote communities. This paper seeks to understand the impacts of UDRHs through application of the Community Capitals framework. Examples and case studies were developed by senior staff from six UDRHs. This analysis found that these university centres enhanced various forms of community capital. Beginning with financial investment (financial capital) and working to natural capital, investment in infrastructure (built capital) and employment of staff in rural and remote regions (human capital) followed. UDRHs bring students to the regions (financial and human capital), undertake projects with local partners (social capital), grow the First Nations workforce (cultural capital) and advocate for local and broader health issues (political capital). Examples and case studies demonstrated how these university departments have funds, staff, infrastructure and partnerships to leverage further community development in, with, and for their regions. Key to success of this program is flexibility, breadth and ensuring funds are spent in their region. This analysis calls improved understanding of intellectual capital in community development to increase insight into how universities can invest in community development initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103658"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143839126","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":"Agricultural extension institutions in rural Cambodia: Unpacking extension agent-farmer relations and interactions","authors":"Thong Anh Tran ,&nbsp;Brian Robert Cook ,&nbsp;Van Touch","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103671","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103671","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agricultural extension depends substantially on extension agent-farmer relations and interactions, which contribute to enhancing livelihoods, agricultural and rural development. These social engagements are influenced by the spheres of institutions that underpin extension practices on the ground. This paper examines how rural institutions shape extension agent-farmer relations and interactions in Cambodia, and how these impact on the levels of their engagement in extension activities. Drawing on empirical data collected from semi-structured interviews with forty-eight experts who work on agrarian studies and rural development in Cambodia and Southeast Asia, the paper argues that rural institutions in Cambodia are characterised by two major institutional boundaries (i.e., formal and informal) which shape varying forms of extension-related interactions among rural actors. The paper reveals that extension agents’ limited presence on the ground and infrequent interactions with farmers minimise opportunities for diffusion and (co)-production of knowledge. The paper offers a theoretical understanding of agricultural extension in the context of the Global South that, while strengthening extension agent-farmer relations and interactions is essential, advancing agricultural extension should recognise the complementary role of the two institutions in contributing to the everyday extension practices of rural communities. Reframing these institution-based agricultural extension pathways would mobilise synergies among rural actors towards improved agricultural and rural development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103671"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843061","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":"“Move forward”: A marginalia analysis of farmers’ mental health management strategies","authors":"Asa Billington ,&nbsp;Courtney Cuthbertson ,&nbsp;Sam Iwinski ,&nbsp;Yifan Hu ,&nbsp;Madhulika Krishnaswamy ,&nbsp;Josie Rudolphi","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103649","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103649","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human health in agriculture is essential to the sustainability of the field. Mental health of people who work in agriculture has been concerning to community members, researchers, and practitioners as suicide rates have been higher than the general population. This study involved surveys of agricultural producers about their mental health, barriers to accessing care, farming experience, and demographic information. In total, n = 67 surveys were returned with comments or markings outside of the structure of the survey (<em>marginalia</em>). We conducted a qualitative analysis of this unique form of data to understand themes related to mental health in agriculture. Using grounded theory techniques, the analysis revealed themes related to dealing with mental health, and more specifically, three subthemes of self-reliance, religion, and distancing/minimizing mental health. Findings highlight how dealing with mental health for this subgroup of agricultural producers meant using one's own resources and not relying on other people or healthcare for assistance or support. Findings from the current study can be used to align outreach efforts to support people who work in agriculture and demonstrate the value of unanticipated data, particularly in relation to hard-to-reach populations such as agricultural producers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103649"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835090","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":"From social media to price swings: Dissecting the dynamic key drivers of public sentiment on the pricing fluctuation of minor agricultural products","authors":"Lifang Fu ,&nbsp;Yuhan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103655","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103655","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Minor agricultural products, characterized by limited supply-demand scales and geographic concentration, face severe sentiment-driven price volatility exacerbated by speculation. Challenging static supply-demand frameworks, this study proposes a novel framework using ginger to integrate online sentiment text mining with a Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregression (TVP-VAR) model. Three sentiment factors—market speculation, transaction willingness, and consumer attention—are extracted from social media (2019–2022). The TVP-VAR model captures their time-sensitive impacts via impulse response analysis.</div><div>Key findings reveal temporally heterogeneous mechanisms: market speculation dominates mid-term trends (3–6 months), while transaction willingness drives short-term volatility (0–3 months) with rapid decay. Consumer attention shows asymmetric effects. Crucially, it uncovers regime shifts in factor dominance: during supply chain disruptions (e.g., COVID-19 lockdowns), speculation's influence intensified remarkably compared to stable periods.</div><div>Theoretically, this study bridges behavioral economics and agricultural markets by showing sentiment overrides supply-demand equilibria, offering empirical evidence. Practically, it enables dynamic monitoring: real-time sentiment analytics help policymakers preempt speculation and mitigate panic, enhancing market stability. The framework's adaptability to concentrated commodities (e.g., garlic, spice crops) supports agricultural economic stabilization, providing scalable tools for efficiency-risk balance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103655"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143817732","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":"Farmers’ access to mental health services and community supports: A mixed methods analysis of service preferences, barriers and attitudes","authors":"Micaela L. Riethmuller ,&nbsp;Peter M. McEvoy ,&nbsp;Elizabeth A. Newnham","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103657","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103657","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Farming is a stressful occupation with variable risks, including weather variability, volatile export markets and increasing isolation. The underutilisation of services and supports for mental health in rural populations is of concern given the high rates of suicide among farmers. This study aimed to examine the use of mental health services by famers in Western Australia, including service preferences, attitudes, awareness and accessibility. An exploratory mixed-methods design was adopted, comprising data from interviews (<em>N</em> = 28) and a survey (<em>N</em> = 124). Community-led initiatives were perceived as essential to mental health support in farming communities. The need for community supports was emphasised as an important solution to address in part, the barriers farmers experienced to professional services, including limited awareness and physical access to services; remote location, financial and time constraints; and concerns regarding confidentiality. These findings highlight the importance of working with farming communities to enable service access and to further improve engagement with mental health services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103657"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143817731","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":"Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China","authors":"Zhenglei Wang ,&nbsp;Jiajun Qiao ,&nbsp;Gaiyan Wang ,&nbsp;Qiankun Zhu ,&nbsp;Wei Wang ,&nbsp;Yanwei Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103644","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103644","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting rural economic revitalization through industrial development is the primary path towards rural revitalization amid global rural decline. We portrayed the spatiotemporal evolution of “One Village, One Product” demonstration villages and towns (DVTs) in China from 2011 to 2021, explored their spatial clustering characteristics using hotspot analysis, investigated spatial differences using Dagum Gini Coefficient, identified influencing factors using geo-detector, and analyzed their influencing mechanisms to reveal the hidden issues. Results indicated that the number of DVTs increased, but the dominant industry categories differed significantly, with agricultural DVTs dominating. Fruit cultivation, vegetables, edible fungi and horticulture, and crop cultivation dominated industrial subcategories. DVTs presented a spatial pattern of dense east and sparse west, dense north and sparse south, with a balanced development trend. Spatial aggregation of DVTs was weakened but locally enhanced, mainly in sub-cold and cold spot areas. DVTs were characterized by spatial non-equilibrium, which gradually increased, and the primary sources of spatial variation were cross-influences between different regions. The spatial pattern evolution of DVTs results from the market demand orientation and policy guidance, supported by traffic level and economic foundation, on top of the basic conditions of DVTs such as geographical conditions and resources. Issues like regional imbalance, industrial homogenization risk, and traditional agricultural limitations are evident behind the spatial pattern of DVTs, which urgently need to be addressed. The essence of the DVTs is to support the development of economic growth cores within them, form specialized production clusters, realize industrial linkages between counties, towns and villages, and build integrated urban-rural industrial systems. The composite top-down and bottom-up development model of China's DVTs is transferable to other developing countries. We proposed measures to foster DVTs based on specific results and the potential problems revealed, offering insights for global rural economic growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103644"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807037","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 elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences","authors":"Soja Sädeharju","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103656","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103656","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global environmental change induces the demand for urgent and transformative action to shift the paradigm in agricultural practices from degenerative to regenerative. The decision-making of farmers has a significant role for our future, since agriculture has an enormous impact on the well-being of our planet. This study explores intuition in regenerative farmers' (RF) decision-making. Regenerative agriculture (RA) might help mitigate climate change and strengthen overall socio-ecological resilience, in addition to producing food. While intuition has been recognised as expert-farmers’ primary decision-making process, research of subjective knowledge behind farmers' decision to transition to RA is limited. To fill this gap, this paper asks: How is intuition used and experienced in RFs' everyday-lives? The framework draws on experiences of 84 Finnish RFs who participated in Carbon Action research project. Data was collected via survey and interviews and analysed iteratively using a qualitative inductive approach (Gioia Method). Intuition appeared to have a significant role in RFs' decision-making and holistically in life, and is therefore linked to regenerative decision-making. A multidimensional framework of the elements of intuition was created as a result. The findings reveal and operationalise the concealed, essential nature of intuition, and enable the incorporation of this elusive phenomenon into agricultural discourses where it is currently absent. Transforming discourses also has leverage to transform the paradigm of decision-making to a regenerative form. The findings confirm the significance of intuition in RFs’ decision-making, and establish novel directions for future research on intuition in decision-making in agriculture and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103656"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799994","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}

{"title":"Capturing social sensing of farming activities for policymaking in fragile contexts","authors":"Nadir Ahmed Elagib ,&nbsp;Bashir M. Ahmed ,&nbsp;Hussein M. Sulieman ,&nbsp;Abbas E. Rahma ,&nbsp;Marwan M.A. Ali ,&nbsp;Karl Schneider","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social sensing data are lacking particularly in fragile and conflict-affected communities (FACAC). Stakeholder specific data are however needed to identify vulnerabilities and exposure to hazards. Climate vagaries, environmental degradation, high political pressure, shrinking economy predominantly dependent on agricultural production, and violent conflict characterize challenges of many developing countries. Based upon our experience in collecting geospatial datasets on farm management practices in the African Sahel, we address key questions: Which approach to comprehensive social data acquisition is suitable and promising particularly in FACAC? Can such an approach mitigate shortages in data availability arising from insufficient or failing government structures? To this end, we present challenges encountered, opportunities and key lessons. We aim to offer a guiding blueprint for researchers and practitioners to organize farm-level surveys in fragile and conflict-affected states. A survey was developed and used in Sudan by means of a smartphone app and in traditional paper form. The survey took place during the period spanning July 2022 to April 2024. Challenges such as sampling under non-updated census, lack of logistics, technology, financial limitation, distrust, low women representation, remoteness and vastness of localities, lacking infrastructure, and dialect often limit the access to different groups of farmers. Using international cooperation of Sudanese and German researchers, involving official staff and locals, and a balanced use of traditional as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) approaches facilitated a successful data collection campaign. The survey resulted in &gt;1800 interviews with over 70 questions pertaining to three different farming systems, namely traditional and mechanized rainfed as well as irrigated systems. Our results and recommendations show that conducting social sensing at the farm level in challenging situations can be effectively achieved as a basis for research and policy intervention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103638"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143785801","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}

{"title":"Beyond homonormativity versus anti-normativity: Recognising transformative practices of rainbow families in rural alpine Switzerland","authors":"Stefanie Claudine Boulila ,&nbsp;Christiane Carri","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103635","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103635","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholars who study LGBTIQ+¹ parents often pose the question of whether rainbow families assimilate to or subvert the normative power of the nuclear family. We argue that queer theory’s attachment to anti-normativity and its subsequent overemphasis on metronormative concepts, such as homonormativity, fail to deliver analytically situated analyses of queer rural lives and parenthood. Decentering the question of normativity, we analyze the lived experiences of lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer parents in the Swiss canton of Valais and how they seek transformation. We examine how the families understand and politicize their lives in Valais, including the local socio-cultural structures. Although the families display no attachment to anti-normative identities or practices, they have an ardent desire for change that is rooted in their everyday lives. We argue that their experiences of marginalization have a politicizing effect on them and prompt them to engage in an array of space-claiming practices through which they hope to realize more liveable futures for families that do not fit the local social fiction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 103635"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143785802","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}