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{"title":"Cultivating cannabis agritourism: Integrating service-dominant logic in Northern California’s Emerald Triangle","authors":"Susan Dupej,&nbsp;Hwansuk Chris Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103864","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103864","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cannabis legalization presents an unexplored context to address tour guides as strategic actors in the relationship between agriculture and tourism. In California, landmark Proposition 64 (2016), which legalized recreational cannabis, opens up opportunities for agritourism in rural areas, establishing the state as a unique hub for commercial cannabis farm tours. The purpose of this paper is to employ Service-Dominant Logic (SDL) as a framework for conceptualizing cannabis agritourism as a dynamic 'service ecosystem'. Evidence from a case study carried out in the Emerald Triangle demonstrates how the strategic value-creating activities of agritourism entities, including the tour guide, catalyze value co-creation in B2C and B2B domains. A supply-side perspective highlights the tour guide as a mechanism to resolve the persistent challenge of integrating agriculture and tourism. By providing a potential solution to facilitate the coexistence of agricultural production with customer-oriented services, tour guides also strengthen the cannabis supply chain more broadly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103864"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144932195","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":"Who is responsible? Examining the way U.S. newspapers in rural agricultural and ranching states cover water quality","authors":"Jessica Walsh ,&nbsp;Serena Miller ,&nbsp;Mildred Perreault ,&nbsp;Endurance Lawrence ,&nbsp;Cassandra Miller","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103862","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Farmers' and ranchers' livelihoods depend upon agricultural land and waterway quality. Yet agriculture practices such as fertilizer use and large-scale hog farms threaten water quality and public health. Rural newspapers, a primary source of information that guides residents in their decision-making including how they act in response to water threats, could be influential in encouraging readers to address local climate change threats. Yet we do not generally know how rural and local newspapers perform when reporting on environmental issues. We argue that rural-urban information disparities extend to the manner in which local newspapers deliver water quality information to rural audiences. Thus, we systematically examined how newspaper publications representing rural and urban areas in five similarly situated Midwestern states framed and sourced their water quality and water pollution reporting. The content analysis results found that water quality was primarily framed from a responsibility perspective emphasizing who should be responsible for protecting waterways, and residents living in smaller and rural areas mostly received environmental news based on information provided by local and state governmental sources. We found urban newspapers were more likely to present water pollution stories employing a greater diversity of frames - including more conflict frames - than rural papers. This study makes three important contributions by 1) adding to the scarce amount of scholarship on the state of environmental rural news information, 2) theoretically linking local news coverage as an information disparity, and 3) creating an agricultural frame variable to explain rural environmental news coverage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103862"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920077","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 ‘counterurbanisation as practice’ to the ‘governance of counterurbanisation’: Structuring pro-rural relocations through planning regulation of housing","authors":"Mark Scott ,&nbsp;Luke Kelleher ,&nbsp;Linda Fox-Rogers ,&nbsp;Menelaos Gkartzios","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103868","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the last four decades or more, counterurbanisation studies have focused on statistical analyses of deconcentrated population trends or demand-side explanations to understand ‘who’ is moving, ‘where’ and ‘why’. These studies, however, tend to overlook how individual preferences are ‘structured’ or influenced by supply-side enablers or constraints. In this paper, we argue that regulatory and policy regimes also matter in shaping counterurbanisation processes and outcomes. In other words, ‘counterurbanisation as practice’ intersects with the <em>governance of counterurbanisation</em>. We examine this theme through exploring the role of land-use planning in relation to regulating rural housing supply that enables or constrains counterurbanisation movements, drawing on Ireland as a case study. Utilising data from development plans, planning applications and a household survey, we evaluate the role of the planning system in identifying ‘where’ counterurbanisation is more likely to be accommodated through new development and in applying criteria in relation to ‘who’ is permitted to build a new rural property, including a range of social and economic criteria to determine an intrinsic need to live in a rural locality. This results in a group we identify as ‘familiar counterurbanisers’. We argue that rural housing policies have been constructed around a counterurbanisation narrative, resulting in policies that privilege selective pathways for counterurbanisers moving to rural localities, specifically for those with a pre-existing connection to rural places (e.g. family links, return migrants).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103868"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920175","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":"Feeling safe enough: Psychological safety in the mountain guiding and avalanche profession","authors":"Rachel D. Reimer ,&nbsp;Christine Eriksen","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines perceptions of psychological safety among 2SLGBTQ+, women, BIPOC, or trauma-affected members of the avalanche and mountain guiding profession. It draws on in-depth interviews conducted in Canada, USA, Switzerland and France within a profession that is overwhelmingly White, cis-gender, hetero, and male. Psychological safety was defined by research participants as feeling safe enough to show one’s full self and to speak up when feeling unsafe due to either mountain or human-caused hazards based on the principles of trust, interconnection, and reciprocity within a group. Factors that supported psychological safety were (in order of strength in the data) vulnerability, teamwork, physical safety, and gender diversity. Psychological risk in relation to human-caused hazards was found to significantly affect physical safety from mountain hazards for both members of the profession and their clients. Human-caused hazards in the profession include exclusion, harassment, and discrimination based on identity factors, such as stigma related to trauma or mental health challenges, racism, ableism, sexism, misogyny. The study revealed that while significant work remains to be done to ensure psychological safety within the avalanche and guiding profession, there is also much to celebrate. Human-caused hazards are entirely dependent on human choice, and are determined by human agency. Members of non-dominant groups demonstrated their abilities to carve out psychologically safe-enough spaces to be able to thrive with authenticity within a competitive, hierarchical and hyper-masculine professional culture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103834"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913556","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":"Balancing biosecurity and local stewardship: Wildlife disease management in rural Norway","authors":"Marianne Singsaas ,&nbsp;Camilla Sandström","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103854","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103854","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103854"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913557","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":"A rural state of mind: Mental well-being and social isolation among Haitian and Hispanic farmworkers in Florida","authors":"Dany Fanfan ,&nbsp;Fan Yi ,&nbsp;Antonio J. Tovar-Aguilar ,&nbsp;Jeanne-Marie R. Stacciarini ,&nbsp;Gulcan Onel","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103849","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103849","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Haitian and Hispanic farmworkers face distinct psychosocial and occupational stressors that contribute to poor mental well-being, yet their experiences remain understudied. This study examined (1) the psychosocial and occupational determinants of depression and anxiety among Haitian and Hispanic farmworkers in rural Florida and (2) the role of social isolation as a mediator in these relationships. Using a community-based participatory cross-sectional design, we interviewed 161 farmworkers (80 Hispanic, 81 Haitian) from four rural agricultural communities in Florida. Regression analyses assessed associations between stressors and mental well-being, while mediation analysis using Baron and Kenny's framework with bootstrapping tested whether social isolation mediated these effects, controlling for age, gender, education, and number of dependents. Findings showed that a stressful migration journey strongly predicted Haitian farmworker depression and anxiety, while secondary non-agricultural employment increased anxiety through heightened social isolation. In contrast, migration journey stress was not significantly linked to mental well-being, while holding a secondary job reduced anxiety by lowering social isolation for Hispanic farmworkers. Limited English fluency had no effect on Haitians but significantly increased anxiety among Hispanics through social isolation. Workplace mistreatment based on race/ethnicity and gender strongly predicted depression and anxiety in both groups. Social isolation mediated these effects. These findings highlight the need for tailored interventions that address ethnic differences in risk factors that may improve access to culturally competent mental health services, mitigate workplace mistreatment, and foster social integration. As immigration policies become more restrictive, it is crucial to continue reducing social isolation and addressing mental health disparities among farmworkers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103849"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913558","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":"More-than-human synchronizations expose the fractures of the agrarian commodity frontier in the Bolivian Chiquitanía","authors":"Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka ,&nbsp;Alder Keleman-Saxena ,&nbsp;Camila Benavides-Frías ,&nbsp;Isabel Díaz-Reviriego ,&nbsp;Jan Hanspach","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103846","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103846","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deforestation at the agrarian commodity frontier in Bolivia produces deep territorial fractures, by making Indigenous livelihoods increasingly subject to agrarian extractivism. However, looking at frontiers beyond their fixed spatial representations can unveil spaces of more-than-human agency emerging at the fractures of agrarian extractivism. In this study, we focus on the relations between people, bees, forests and plants, to show how their multiple trajectories synchronize across forests, crops, and villages. Through assessing the synchronizations that underpin honey-economies, we suggest that research can notice unexpected reactions to the social and ecological devastation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103846"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144907982","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":"Politicising agricultural transformation through farmer groups’ everyday collective practices","authors":"Ronald Byaruhanga ,&nbsp;Ellinor Isgren ,&nbsp;Sinem Kavak","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Farmer collectives, such as farmer groups, play a crucial role in advancing struggles for inclusive and sustainable rural development. Yet their potential to influence agricultural policies and practices remains undervalued. Drawing on focus group discussions with farmer groups in northern Uganda, we examine how their routine collective practices function as critical mechanisms for cultivating viable but often overlooked social, economic, and ecological alternatives. These groups create structures for contesting dominant agrarian ideologies and arenas for advancing smallholder-friendly agricultural practices. Using the theoretical lens of everyday forms of politics, our analysis shows how farmer-led activities such as community seed banks, farmer field schools, and village savings and loan associations reflect both resistance to neoliberal paradigms that favour market-driven growth, and aspirations for alternative agrarian futures centered on social equity and ecological sustainability. The latter materializes in advancing agricultural visions that are more socially just, economically inclusive, and ecologically resilient. Although we frame these actions as subtle expressions of political agency, they clearly embody latent potential to catalyze more explicit forms of politicisation within agricultural transformation. However, continued reliance on external actors, particularly non-governmental organisations, risks eroding the long-term autonomy and sustainability of these initiatives. Enhancing internal leadership and grassroots capacity is therefore critical to securing the self-determination and resilience of farmer-led efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103859"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894766","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":"Adoption of mobile-based agricultural extension services: evidence from South India","authors":"Marija Cerjak ,&nbsp;Marco Medici ,&nbsp;Ivica Faletar ,&nbsp;Jada Venkata Sundeep ,&nbsp;Maurizio Canavari","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103851","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103851","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mobile-based agricultural extension services (MAES) have emerged as vital tools in disseminating farming knowledge, particularly in remote areas, offering real-time advice on crop management and weather forecasts. However, barriers such as digital literacy, language diversity, and scepticism towards technology adoption persist. This study examines farmers' adoption of MAES, using survey data collected from 230 farmers in Karnataka, southern India. By developing a hybrid Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the study integrates socio-economic factors influencing MAES adoption, including constructs such as personal innovativeness, technology familiarity, and economic motivation to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the behavioral drivers of technology uptake. Findings highlight that, in low-experience environments where traditional livelihoods intersect with rapidly developing scientific and technical infrastructure, farmers' adoption of MAES is influenced more by interest, familiarity and perceived economic benefits than by perceived ease of use or usefulness alone. This suggests that social networks, cultural perceptions of technology, and rural economic structures play a significant role in shaping adoption patterns. The study underscores MAES potential to improve agricultural productivity and rural livelihood in South India, emphasising the need for specific policy interventions that address socio-economic disparities and enhance digital literacy while fostering collaborative efforts between policymakers, agricultural experts, and technology providers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103851"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144892218","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":"A synthesis of factors influencing sustainable agriculture practices adoption among rural farmers: A scoping review","authors":"Michael Madin ,&nbsp;Katherine Nelson ,&nbsp;Matthew Sanderson ,&nbsp;Laura Moley","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103853","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103853","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural regions are significant food producers, yet there are concerns about adoption of sustainable agriculture practices among rural farmers. Empirical studies show that a wide range of factors influence adoption of sustainable practices. We reviewed 83 studies on this subject to analyze which climatic, economic, socio-cultural, and environmental factors significantly influence adoption of sustainable practices. Our analysis found that most of the selected studies (82 %) considered socio-cultural and economic characteristics of farmers but neglected climatic and environmental factors. The influence of these factors on farmers' adoption likelihood varied by type of sustainable practice and study context. The results indicated that drought events, rising temperatures, higher income and wealth, perceived environmental benefits, presence of disease, poor soil fertility, higher education, access to extension services, strong social networks, and positive psychological attitudes showed significant positive influence on farmers' uptake of most studied sustainable practices. In contrast, limited access to credit and markets consistently served as barriers to adoption. Characteristics such as gender and household size showed correlations to adoption of some studied practices, although these results were more mixed and affected by study context. While our findings are similar to the results of previous reviews, our specific focus on rural areas across the globe suggests that the positive effects of gender, education, and adequate access to credit on adoption may be stronger in more rural or less developed regions. Our analysis further indicates that most adoption studies’ models assumed a discrete binary approach to assessing adoption decisions, which may exclude the ability to capture discontinuation or re-adoption among farmers. Therefore, adoption literature would benefit from alternative approaches such as multivariate path-dependent analysis, which is particularly important for modeling factors with interactive relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103853"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890816","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}