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{"title":"Pension provision in the farming sector – Lessons from Europe","authors":"Hana Hlochova ,&nbsp;Bridget McNally ,&nbsp;Michael T. Hayden ,&nbsp;Anne Kinsella","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103596","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pension security for the self-employed within the EU has been improved by recent pension reforms, nevertheless gaps persist, and the self-employed remain a vulnerable group in this regard. The self-employed in Ireland overall have lower levels of pension in comparison to those in employment and self-employed farmers have the lowest pension cover with many not planning to ever retire. This is despite the fact that self-employed farmers predominantly begin their working life earlier and spend a longer time in employment than the employed. The objective of this study is to assess the design of the social security pension system for farmers in five countries which have bespoke social security pension systems for farmers, to identify gaps in the current Irish social security pension system for farmers and highlight the need internationally for a bespoke system for farmers. The five countries examined, (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, and Poland) are members of the European Network of Agricultural Protection Systems (ENASP) which focuses on a broad spectrum of social security issues. Retirement pensions is one of its key areas of interest and thus the pension systems of these five countries provide an important benchmark for international comparison. In the Irish context, the findings suggest that Ireland lags in terms of its social security pension system, as it applies to farmers. Reform is needed to ensure full social welfare pension coverage for this cohort to protect their financial welfare in retirement and to support the farm succession process. We suggest some practical solutions in this regard.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103596"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453100","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":"Workload and remuneration on farms in the south of France: The uncertain future of agroecology","authors":"Sébastien Bainville,&nbsp;Claire Aubron,&nbsp;Olivier Philippon","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103588","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103588","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research focuses on evaluating labour remuneration for farmers implementing agroecological systems. Agroecological systems require a greater investment in labour than conventional systems, but offer the prospect of higher prices, particularly when farmers take on part of the processing and marketing of their products. The amount of labour in days invested and the level of remuneration were assessed for a sample of farms located in ten regions of southern France. After recalling the trend towards labour extensification that has marked recent developments in agriculture, the article highlights the contrasts that characterize the current situation. In “agro-ecological” farms, the amount of work invested is much greater and much less remunerated than in conventional farms. Agroecology is practiced mainly by farmers who do not have the means to implement conventional systems. The article concludes with policy implications of these results. Agricultural prices and the allocation of European subsidies need to be rethought if agroecology is to become widespread.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103588"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453101","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":"Pathways linking WASH access and women's empowerment: Evidence from Zambia and Honduras","authors":"Jingru Jia ,&nbsp;Anna Snider ,&nbsp;Anissa Collishaw ,&nbsp;Paul E. McNamara ,&nbsp;Emmanuel Tumusiime","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103602","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103602","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving universal access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and facilities is considered essential for gender equality and empowerment, yet empirical evidence of how and what WASH is essential for responding to the challenges of women's gender equality and empowerment in low-income countries is limited.</div><div>This study analyzes cross-sectional data from Zambia and Honduras to examine the relationship between access to WASH services and women's empowerment, measured by indicators of intrinsic, instrumental, and collective agency. We find significant correlations between access to WASH and women's intrinsic and instrumental agency. This correlation is stronger in Zambia than Honduras, highlighting that relationships are spatially heterogeneous. Notably, we find that households that treat their water are correlated with women's input into agricultural production decisions. These results demonstrate that the relationship between WASH access and women's empowerment is multifaceted, and more evidence is needed to understand underlying mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 103602"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453099","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 income: Professional objectives and job satisfaction of farmers. An empirical study in France","authors":"Soazig Di Bianco,&nbsp;Maha Ben Jaballah,&nbsp;Nejla ben Arfa,&nbsp;Bertille Thareau","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study evaluates the diversity of farmers according to their professional goals and determines the factors, beyond income, that contribute to farmers' job satisfaction. From the job characterization approach and the goal setting theory, it broadens the modeling of job satisfaction including a pre-definition of professional goals with farmers. A questionnaire and interviews were used to collect data. Mixed socio-economic research methods were used to analyze the collected data, particularly a multiple factor analysis and an ordinal logistic regression model. The results show a positive correlation at a statistically significant level between the use of digital tools, the presence of a potential successor and the level of achievement of their objective and the farmer's job satisfaction. On the other hand, specialization, years of service on the farm, off-farm work, and the presentation of economic objectives as a primary professional objective of the farmer, are statistically significant and negatively correlated with the level of job satisfaction of farmers. Our study points out the diversity of work conception among farmers and discusses their job satisfaction and its implications for thinking decent work in agriculture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103599"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436960","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":"Challenges for tourism-related lifestyle migrant entrepreneurship in rural areas of the Algarve, Portugal","authors":"Kate Torkington ,&nbsp;Marco Eimermann ,&nbsp;Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro ,&nbsp;Susana Conceição","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many rural areas in southern Europe have long suffered from outward migration but have recently been attracting new types of in-migration. This includes lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs (LMEs) seeking ways of improving their own quality of life and, at the same time, bringing new projects which aim to build on the potential and resources for rural tourism in their chosen destination place. Drawing on data from in-depth research interviews with LMEs and other stakeholders, this article stems from a research project focused on exploring tourism-related entrepreneurial lifestyle migration in the rural Algarve, in southern Portugal. Although this type of migration has often been identified as a potential driver for the sustainable development of both tourism activities and rural areas, this study focuses on the challenges identified, principally by the LMEs themselves, as regards the setting up, operationalisation and continuing activities of tourism-related businesses in rural areas of the Algarve. A variety of challenges were detected, at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels of the entrepreneurial migration process. The most recurrent problem faced is the level of bureaucracy and the difficulties encountered in legal processes. Although this is sometimes due to the language barrier, it is also related to the lack of clear information on procedures and the lack of specialised support. This finding points to the need for a greater level of cooperation and communication among the various stakeholders to ensure a more sustainable development of tourism in these rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103562"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379389","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":"Trending discourses and silences around the role of women in wildfires: A systematic scoping review and some reflections from the field","authors":"Marien González-Hidalgo ,&nbsp;Ana Cabana Iglesia","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In mainstream social imaginaries, wildfires are still a ‘manly’ issue. Addressing the question ‘how are women depicted in the literature of wildfires?’ this paper systematically analyses current literature on this subject. We identify five roles of women in a sample of 81 papers, and we show that women's roles are repeatedly structured as follows: women as impacted by wildfires, women as holders of particular knowledges and perceptions, women as firefighters, women as caregivers, and women as setters of fire. We supplement this analysis with our own observations from fieldwork in wildfires in Spain, Chile and Sweden. Our analysis of these roles allows us to depict a diversity of women's capacities, vulnerabilities and contradictions beyond discourses around virtuosity or victimhood; to discuss how and why women's various roles are unequally valued or avoided; and to consider the interconnection of gendered discourses on women and wildfires across geographies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103553"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349962","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":"Disentangling the relationship between rurality and tourism from a peripheral rural area of Europe","authors":"Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros ,&nbsp;Auxiliadora González-Portillo","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To achieve a more complex understanding of the relationships between tourism and rurality, we need to deeper explore the extent to which tourism is part of the countryside. To do this, it is not enough to focus on how tourism constructs rurality, but rather on how the rural world appropriates tourism and makes it a defining element of rurality. This article illustrates the opportunity of this analytical perspective through an ethnographic case study in Andalusia (Spain) that helps us understand how and why tourism becomes an inherent element of rurality in peripheral rural areas of Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103595"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305171","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":"Local community participation of older village residents: Social differences and the role of expectations","authors":"Franziska Lengerer","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103591","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103591","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In rural areas characterised by ageing and declining populations and centralised public and private services, responsibilities for local processes are re-negotiated. In this context, older people's community participation and active ageing are increasingly encouraged in policy documents and discussed by researchers. This paper zooms in on the different ways in which older residents participate in their local communities in a rural region in Germany and how these are related to social differences, participation experiences and expectations. The structuring content analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews reveals that villagers participate, to different degrees, in three fields: local politics, associations and interest groups, and informal community activities. Individuals' experiences of participating in the community are identified as being shaped by complex interrelations between socioeconomic status, gender and residential history. Furthermore, older people's expectations to participate are found as mainly directed towards younger people and incomers. Descriptions of expectations they face encompass other residents' expectations as well as unspecified pressures due to limited means of the municipality. Interpreting these narrations of expectations as forms of responsibilisation, the analysis provides insights into ongoing re-negotiations of responsibilities and reveals the normativity of local community participation in a rural context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103591"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305160","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":"Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration","authors":"Anja Decker","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The lived experience and the transformative effects of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration are key research interests of rural studies, but we know little about what happens when urban dwellers make use of their local voting rights after relocating to rural areas. The paper presents insights from ethnographic explorations in a peripherialized rural region of Czechia in which social and spatial disadvantages intersect. Using an agency framework to bring the scholarship of lifestyle migration into conversation with the literature on transforming modes of political participation, the paper investigates how lifestyle migration affects the subjective perceptions and practical enactment of political agency among both lifestyle migrants and other rural residents. The findings show that lifestyle migration into rural peripheries widens the room to manoeuvre for the newcomers and highlights the role electoral tools play in the emergence of new formations of local citizenship. However, when lifestyle migrants emerge as political actors, this can also trigger uncertainties, social distinctions and local power struggles. The contribution is intended to stimulate further conceptual work towards a nuanced understanding of the political realm of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration and point out promising avenues for further research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103571"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305172","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":"Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining","authors":"Francis Arthur-Holmes ,&nbsp;Patience Demor Matey","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Place-making practices and gender in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) have been documented in the literature. Yet, studies have not critically explored the interactions of spatial, material and sociocultural forces in the coproduction of gendered mining practices and leadership structure in ASM spaces. Drawing on a qualitative, ethnographic study on women in ASM in Ghana, we apply the concept of <em>mining entanglements</em> to examine the sociometerial and space-gender interactions in ASM settings to identify the <em>gendered mining entanglements</em> that cocreate gendered mining work patterns, leadership structure, and economic relations. Findings showed that ASM space – in terms of extraction (e.g., underground extraction, and surface extraction) and processing locations – were socially constructed for gender roles. Such spatial forces of ASM combined with entangled material forces – human bodies, mining tools/equipment and mining practices – and sociocultural forces (i.e. sociocultural discourse of women’s menstrual bodies) in the coproduction of gendered patterns of mining works, economic relations, and leadership structure. The spatial, material and sociocultural forces were used in the framing and theorization of gender <em>as an entangled force</em>, where each force can distinctively explain gender and how they dictate the economic roles of women and men. Findings further showed that the mining entangled forces intersected with various factors related to women – such as age, working experience, social connections, sexual relations, educational status and ethnicity – to cocreate micropolitics of everyday realities of gendered labor dynamics and economic power relations influencing women’s eligibility or qualification for site committee membership or leadership positions in ASM sites. Based on the gendered socioeconomic and political inequality, formalization efforts and interventions that seek to promote women’s economic empowerment and address barriers to female ASM participation should tackle the <em>gendered mining entanglements</em> impacting women's socioeconomic and health outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103594"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305157","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}