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Mountains of change: Open cooperativism and commons-based economic transformation in rural Greece 变革之山：希腊农村的开放合作主义和基于公共的经济转型

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103763

Vasilis Kostakis , Sotiris Tsoukarelis , Mina Kouvara

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Of nothing comes nothing: the impact of agricultural comparative return on cropland abandonment 农业相对回报对耕地撂荒的影响，就是无所得无所得

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103759

Linyi Zheng , Songqing Jin , Liufang Su

{"title":"Of nothing comes nothing: the impact of agricultural comparative return on cropland abandonment","authors":"Linyi Zheng , Songqing Jin , Liufang Su","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103759","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103759","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cropland abandonment exerts far-reaching consequences for food security and sustainable agricultural development. However, while it is generally believed that low agricultural comparative return (ACR) is the main cause of cropland abandonment, the magnitude of such effects and their underlying mechanisms are not well understood. On the basis of constructing a mathematical model and analysis framework, we adopt a panel high-dimensional fixed-effects model to investigate the impact of ACR on cropland abandonment. Employing a large-scale farm-level panel data from Chinese Family Databases during 2015–2021, we find that ACR has a positive impact on the proportion of abandoned cropland area to total cropland area, with an average coefficient of 0.016. This effect is mainly achieved through reductions in long-term land investment, agricultural capital input, and agricultural labor input. Nevertheless, it is also moderated by the effects of rural factor markets and government agricultural subsidies. In particular, the agricultural machinery market, the land rental market and the level of agricultural subsidies can weaken ACR's negative impact on land use. Our findings also reveal that ACR is not harmful to households in northeastern and central China or major grain producing areas, while it harms others. Overall, this study provides a better understanding of the quantitative relationship between ACR and cropland abandonment in rural China, and valuable insights for other developing countries in formulating targeted measures to curb cropland abandonment in low ACR situations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103759"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480172","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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More-than-climate politics in rurality: Normative pathways for living with loss and vanishing continuity in place 乡村中的气候政治：在失去和消失的连续性下生活的规范途径

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103752

Petra Tschakert , Alicia Wheatley

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Landowner perspectives on conserving Indigenous archaeological heritage on private property, Xwe'etay/Lasqueti Island, British Columbia 不列颠哥伦比亚省Xwe'etay/Lasqueti岛私有土地上土著考古遗产的保护

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103746

Owen Wilson, Sean Markey, Dana Lepofsky, Faren Wolfe

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The impact of urban shrinkage on agricultural production efficiency—A case study of the lower Yellow River region in China 城市收缩对农业生产效率的影响——以黄河下游地区为例

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103755

Naigang Cao , Pingjun Sun , Hong Luo , Xiaotong Gao

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Savages under suspicion: (Mis)trust and civilization processes among wild boar hunters in Uruguay 被怀疑的野蛮人：乌拉圭野猪猎人之间的信任和文明进程

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103745

Juan Martin Dabezies

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Running to stand still? Finding levers to address population shrinking in the Northern Territory of Australia 跑着站着不动？寻找解决澳大利亚北领地人口萎缩问题的手段

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103743

Andrew Taylor, Sigurd Dyrting

{"title":"Running to stand still? Finding levers to address population shrinking in the Northern Territory of Australia","authors":"Andrew Taylor, Sigurd Dyrting","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103743","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103743","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Population shrinkage in rural Europe has echoes with demographic trends in Northern Australia, where some areas have experienced low growth or shrinkage for around a decade due to negative internal migration outcomes. Despite targeted policies to stimulate long-term growth, regions in Northern Australia struggle to attract and retain the ‘right’ sort of populations. Emblematic of this, the Northern Territory, Australia's most sparsely settled jurisdiction, had 32 successive quarters of negative internal migration leading up to the COVID pandemic and exchanges a fifth of its population each year through migration, births and deaths. It imports large numbers of early-career aged workers, most of whom leave in their 30s or early 40s. Constant inflows of new residents with a considerable risk of near-future out-migration sees the population ‘Running to stand still,’ with upticks in jobs and economic activity leading to future poor migration outcomes. Governments are interested in economic levers for internal migration and in this study, we analyse long-term data for key macroeconomic variables for the Northern Territory to ascertain their significance as leading correlates for improved net interstate migration. We find residential property prices are most significant but, against perceptions, jobs vacancies do not positively influence internal migration outcomes. The results emphasises the Northern Territory Government's limited volition to turn-around migration through its own macroeconomic settings, leaving it subject to external conditions. Constraints in economic levers mean other facets for attraction and retention, such as qualitative elements like quality education, lifestyle facilities, enhancing social networks and promoting the Territory as a place for multi-residence workers or retirees need to be considered in developing a holistic approach to population stagnation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103743"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313940","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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Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development 能力不足和动力过剩？美国风能开发中的农村紧缩和不对称谈判关系

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103749

Salma Elmallah , Robi Nilson , Joseph Rand , Emma Uridge , Ben Hoen

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“Why would a farmer pay more money to use something that’s not gonna give them anything back”: Identifying gaps and opportunities to promote regenerative agriculture in Alberta, Canada “为什么农民要花更多的钱去使用不会给他们任何回报的东西”：在加拿大阿尔伯塔省发现促进再生农业的差距和机会

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103748

Tatenda Mambo , Francine Nelson , Juhi Huda , Guillaume Lhermie

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Can Instagram contribute to the wellbeing and flourishing of Australian farming women in the midst of climate challenges? Instagram能在气候挑战中为澳大利亚农业妇女的福祉和繁荣做出贡献吗？

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103742

Amy R. Samson , Kelly S. Fielding , Natalie Collie

{"title":"Can Instagram contribute to the wellbeing and flourishing of Australian farming women in the midst of climate challenges?","authors":"Amy R. Samson , Kelly S. Fielding , Natalie Collie","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate predictions in the Australian farming industry are for higher temperatures and lower winter rainfall, which threatens productivity and profitability. Australian farming women are significant contributors, knowledge holders and change makers yet their direct voices are underrepresented in existing research focused on the impacts of climate change. Understanding how farming women negotiate and cope with the increased mental and emotional load of day-to-day climate challenges is important for resilience building at an individual and sector level. Based on interviews with Australian farming women (N = 10), this study investigates the potential contribution of social media to flourishing and wellbeing outcomes when living with climate extremes. We draw on a newly conceptualised positive psychology-based framework, Flourishing through Social Media, to explore the conditions underpinning flourishing outcomes from social media use, with a focus on Instagram. Thematic analysis shows that Australian farming women who actively chose to use Instagram and its design features to create and share content and engage with other like-minded users, experienced flourishing outcomes to varying degrees. This includes social support, increased social capital, identity building and mastery. These insights are important given there are proven links between social connectedness and finding meaning in experiences, to developing individual resilience during adversity. Practical implications for the agricultural industry include a better understanding of how and why social media may be a valuable contributor to farming women's resilience, and even flourishing, in the face of day-to-day climate challenges on the farm.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103742"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313938","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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