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{"title":"(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside","authors":"Cornelia Reiher","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural Japan is facing a severe population decline and labor shortage. Japanese central and local governments are trying to revitalize rural areas by attracting new residents to live and work in the countryside. However, support for migrants and their experiences varies greatly depending on their nationality. While a complex support system for internal urban-rural migrants exists, most migrants from Southeast Asia are mostly invisible because they do not have the same resources as internal Japanese migrants. This paper compares two programs that hire people to temporarily work in Japan's countryside to find out why some migrants are more visible than others and what this means for rural communities. The <em>Community</em>-<em>building</em> Support S<em>taff Program</em> aims at attracting people from Japan's urban areas to move to the countryside and work there for three years to revitalize the region. The <em>Technical Intern Training Program</em> is a labor rotation system for temporary workers from East and Southeast Asia. I argue that the hierarchization of different groups of migrants results in the invisibility and the marginalization of foreign workers in rural areas, making them more vulnerable than migrant workers in cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103561"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132324","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":"Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges","authors":"Dylan Henderson,&nbsp;Kevin Morgan","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103565","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103565","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Further Education Colleges (FECs) have been undervalued in discussions of regional innovation, despite their critical role in providing vocational and educational training. This paper argues that FECs in rural areas may be well positioned to lead innovative responses to contemporary challenges, such as those posed by the green transition. The paper focuses on the potential of rural FECs to facilitate transformative innovation. It presents a case study of an FEC in Carmarthenshire, Wales (UK), seeking to identify ways to manage slurry for the benefit of the environment and society. It contributes by illustrating three integrated mechanisms by which rural FECs can develop solutions to the green transition: (i) aligning agendas for innovation and skills development; (ii) orchestrating distributed leadership; and (iii) creating experimental regulatory spaces. The findings highlight the potential of FECs to make a greater impact on the rural economy and contribute towards solutions for grand challenges facing society.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103565"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132328","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":"Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast","authors":"Rémi Laurent ,&nbsp;Guillaume Soullier ,&nbsp;Jean-François Le Coq ,&nbsp;Carolina Milhorance","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103570","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103570","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the extent of technical and organisational transformations in the milling segment of the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast, which is discussed against the literature on agricultural value chain transformations. The method is based on rice miller's quantitative data and stakeholders' interviews. The results reveal that both countries are undergoing technical change and a shift of value chain governance towards vertical integration, implemented at larger scale in Ghana. The differences observed are attributed to variations in production systems, demand for local rice, currency conditions, and policy approaches in the respective countries.</div><div><strong>Résumé:</strong> L'article examine l'ampleur des changements techniques et organisationnels en cours dans le segment de la transformation des chaînes de valeur du riz au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire, qui est discuté par rapport à la littérature sur les transformations des chaînes de valeur agricoles. La méthode est basée sur des données quantitatives et des entretiens. Les résultats révèlent que les deux pays connaissent un changement technique et un changement de gouvernance de la chaîne de valeur qui tend vers l'intégration verticale, mise en œuvre à plus grande échelle au Ghana. Les différences observées sont attribuées aux variations dans les systèmes de production, la demande pour le riz local, les conditions monétaires et les approches politiques dans les pays respectifs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103570"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131135","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":"Mental health, well-being and resilience in agricultural areas: A research agenda for the Global North","authors":"Caroline Nye ,&nbsp;Rebecca Wheeler ,&nbsp;David Rose ,&nbsp;Florence Becot ,&nbsp;Mark Holton ,&nbsp;Duška Knežević Hočevar ,&nbsp;Jorie Knook ,&nbsp;Sarah Kyle ,&nbsp;Maria Partalidou ,&nbsp;Mark Riley ,&nbsp;Artur Steiner ,&nbsp;Hannah Whitley","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103506","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103506","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper offers an overview of research perspectives, gaps, and priorities within the field of mental health and well-being among farming communities in the Global North. Developed by an international working group of scholars with expertise in the mental health and well-being of agricultural and rural communities, it outlines the importance of developing an international research agenda in this subject area by presenting five propositions. Each of the propositions addresses current research gaps and/or highlights potential advancements in investigations into one of the following areas of study: i) who is being researched, ii) what is being researched, iii) geographical gaps in research, iv) informal and formal support systems, and v) methodological approaches and issues. The purpose of this paper is to encourage discussion and present a potential agenda around which new studies might be inspired and developed, as well as to help drive forward more focussed, joined-up research across the Global North to facilitate more effective outcomes for individuals belonging to agricultural communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103506"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131534","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":"Assessing the role of rural tourism in fostering cross-border integration within the EU: A case study of the Czech-German-Polish borderland","authors":"Lukáš Novotný","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103529","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103529","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper aims to provide comprehensive insights into enhancing cross-border tourism and integration in rural border regions facing socio-economic and demographic challenges. It focuses on Umgebinde houses as a unique architectural heritage within Central Europe's border areas and examines their role in the development of cross-border rural tourism. The study is grounded in the theoretical framework of cross-border integration, specifically its three dimensions—functional, institutional, and ideational—adapted for social science tourism research. The qualitative research investigates the strengths and weaknesses of institutionalising cross-border cooperation concerning Umgebinde houses, particularly with respect to the development of cross-border tourism and the highly peripheral nature of these regions. It addresses the potential of these houses to promote a sense of shared cross-border unity, explores the connectivity of Umgebinde house landscapes across borders through communication and marketing networks, and identifies existing deficits. The findings highlight the necessity for professionalising tourism institutions and improving fundraising efforts. Crucially, the development of cross-border destinations depends on sustained support from local and regional governments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103529"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132338","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":"Leveraging social ties to financial gains: Exploring the impact of social capital in rural development","authors":"Mallory L. Rahe ,&nbsp;Andrew J. Van Leuven ,&nbsp;Trey Malone","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social capital, defined as networks of individuals linked through bonding or bridging relationships, plays a crucial but poorly conceptualized role in place-based development. The word “capital” implies an underlying value of the social connections throughout a community, and this study explores how these social relationships are used to initiate, plan, access financial capital, and implement economic development projects in rural areas. We avoid county-level aggregation bias and use a divergent pathway case study of projects across eight communities to examine how social ties are used during rural development in places with both high and low financial capital. Both types of communities had active social networks and were successfully completing projects, but they were sometimes using their ties differently. We find that most projects initiate through bonding social capital. The availability of financial capital within a network significantly influences network ties and their utilization in later steps of rural development projects. Low prosperity communities with limited financial capital are more likely to use bridging ties to leverage new financial resources. High prosperity communities relied on both bonding and bridging ties but had more potential actors, financial resources, and business experience. We find social and financial capital are intertwined, suggesting future efforts to support rural development should consider both types of assets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103539"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131536","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":"Structure and determinants of the cost of setting up a farm: The case of young farmers in Central France","authors":"Philippe Jeanneaux ,&nbsp;Eliot Wendling ,&nbsp;Yann Desjeux ,&nbsp;Geoffroy Enjolras ,&nbsp;Laure Latruffe","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The experience of young farmers setting up in business has important implications for the rejuvenation of the age profile of the farming profession. The cost of taking over a farm is a key factor governing access to the profession. We focus here on the cost that young farmers must incur in order to take control of a farm business, and the determinants of this cost at the time of transfer. The contribution of this paper is that we investigate the total cost of setting up a farm, which includes not only the purchase price paid by the farmer on taking over the farm, but also the cost of adapting the farm for their projects and needs; that is, the investment costs in the first 4 years following the set up. Our analysis is based on an original database of administrative records for grants to young farmers in the French region of Puy-de-Dôme during the period 2007–2017. The results show that the average purchase price is around 80,000 Euros, while the investment required during the first 4 years following set-up is an additional cost of almost 200,000 Euros. The total cost of setting up depends on the young farmer's age and education, the size of the farm, its legal status, the main production on the farm, and the levers used to create value, such as short supply chains, on-farm processing, and using a quality label, however, producing using organic practices and setting up in a family context do not influence the cost.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103583"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131590","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":"Place-bereavement-trajectories: Life-course experiences of loss in rural Irish communities","authors":"Anna Wanka ,&nbsp;Kieran Walsh","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103566","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103566","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the demographic and cultural importance of bereavement in rural places, research on place-based bereavement experiences for rural older people remains underdeveloped. Consequently, how these experiences are patterned, mediated and co-constituted by spatial components and rural processes are poorly understood. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of place in the bereavement experiences of older adults living in small rural communities. Adopting a material and relational perspective regarding lived experience of bereavement transitions in place, the analysis draws on archived qualitative data (2012) from 106 in-depth life-course interviews, across 10 case-study sites, on later life in diverse rural settings in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Data is presented on the entanglement of different stages of bereavement (separation, liminality and incorporation) and on different dimensions of place (spatial/infrastructural, relational, cultural and affective/experiential). While varying across transition stage, and resident type, findings suggest that multiple dimensions of place can buffer or compound bereavement. However, bereavement also shapes places and older adults’ relationships to these places. Place and bereavement, therefore, emerge as entangled across a co-constitutive trajectory. Acknowledging this can facilitate the capacity of rural places to support bereavement as an individual and collective community experience, and enhance scholarly understandings of spatial dimensions of ageing-related transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103566"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132322","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":"Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability","authors":"Ann Elizabeth Montgomery ,&nbsp;Aerin DeRussy ,&nbsp;Thomas Byrne ,&nbsp;Joshua Richman ,&nbsp;Jack Tsai ,&nbsp;Richard Nelson","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103552","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103552","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Housing instability is an important determinant of health and can lead to reduced life expectancy as well as other poor outcomes. While homelessness is often perceived as an urban phenomenon, it is also present in rural areas of the U.S. Compared with non-Veterans, Veterans are more likely both to be living in rural areas and experiencing housing instability. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers health care and social services—including a variety of responses to housing instability—in facilities across the U.S. The objective of the present study is to estimate the frequency of migration among Veterans with experience of homelessness, the characteristics of their migrations, and individual and community-level characteristics that may predict their migrations. We used VA administrative data for 559,513 Veterans with an indicator of housing instability between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2018, with up to a 5-year observation period. The primary outcome of interest was migration, defined as a single geographic residential relocation (i.e., a change of residential address) of more than 40 miles or a geographic residential relocation of fewer than 40 miles but with a change in urban/rural status. Controlling for a variety of covariates, we utilized a discrete-time survival framework with person-quarter as the unit of analysis; this allowed us to directly model event rates over time with the inclusion of time-varying predictors. Across the observation period, about one-quarter of Veterans with an indicator of housing instability migrated, most frequently those who resided in a rural area and sought care at an urban facility; the majority migrated to or within an urban area and these migrations were of a greater distance than migrations to or within a rural area. Future work in this area should focus on investigating differences in findings across geographic regions, Veterans' reasons for migration, and the impact of migration on Veterans’ health and housing outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103552"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131404","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":"Governance networks for agroecology transitions in rural Europe","authors":"Oriana Gava ,&nbsp;Francesco Vanni ,&nbsp;Gerald Schwarz ,&nbsp;Emmanuel Guisepelli ,&nbsp;Audrey Vincent ,&nbsp;Jaroslav Prazan ,&nbsp;Rainer Weisshaidinger ,&nbsp;Rebekka Frick ,&nbsp;Andrea Hrabalová ,&nbsp;Johannes Carolus ,&nbsp;Uxue Iragui Yoldi ,&nbsp;Jarkko Pyysiäinen ,&nbsp;Alexandra Smyrniotopoulou ,&nbsp;George Vlahos ,&nbsp;Katalin Balázs ,&nbsp;Alfréd János Szilágyi ,&nbsp;Gražvydas Jegelevičius ,&nbsp;Elvyra Mikšytė ,&nbsp;Andis Zilans ,&nbsp;Mihaela Frățilă ,&nbsp;Andrea Povellato","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103482","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103482","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Governance networks, made of diversified and multidisciplinary actors, have a prominent role in the development and implementation of actions for agri-food system transformation that foster both farm-level and societal change, as in the case of agroecology transitions. This article aims at delivering a typology of governance networks, building on evidence from across Europe. By adopting a governance network theory perspective, a multiple case study is developed through participatory research, by characterising the emerging governance networks from transition actions at different levels in the pathway towards agroecological redesign. Three types of governance networks are identified. Adoption networks develop from early-stage actions in the agroecology transition pathway, to facilitate the shift from conventional to more sustainable farming practices. Positioning networks emerge from actions to create a demand for agroecologically produced food, through the development of marketing strategies and the creation of market channels. Amplification networks are the closest to agroecological redesign, originating from actions structured towards participatory planning and the development and reinforcement of diversity and transdisciplinarity. Advisory services play a key role in all three types, by fostering knowledge diffusion and exchange, as well as by developing trust among farmers and encouraging cooperation, including conflict management. The role of advisory services for agroecology could be strengthened further through targeted policy. Measures to sustain multi-actor cooperation have the potential to create these conditions by developing and exploiting synergies between and within value chains, and with other relevant actors, including consumers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103482"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131492","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}