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Understanding “public” framings of private places and psychological ownership in a rural land use conflict

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103477

Ryan Bullock, Bryanne Lamoureux

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Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103489

Isabelle Duvernoy , Françoise Jarrige , Amélie Gonçalves

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The impact of “artificial wool” on the New Zealand wool industry: Lessons for future substitution transitions in the agricultural sector

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103578

Rob J.F. Burton , Hugh Campbell

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Older adults’ resilience in rural places: Explaining the role of place, time, and social connection during COVID-19

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103579

Rachel V. Herron , Breanna C. Lawrence , Nancy E.G. Newall , Doug Ramsey

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Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103577

Ling Li , Yuheng Li , Jiayi Shi , Xile Li , Huijuan Liu , Lin Zhu

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Homestead withdrawal behaviour of rural migrants in China: The role of joint reform of hukou system and homestead system

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103526

Xiao Cui , Eddie Chi Man Hui , Jianfu Shen , Xin Lin , Siyi Wang , Fang He

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Understanding politicisation of farm animal welfare through stability and change in public trust

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103557

Renate Marie Butli Hårstad

{"title":"Understanding politicisation of farm animal welfare through stability and change in public trust","authors":"Renate Marie Butli Hårstad","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The issue of farm animal welfare is gaining increased attention, new insights, and involvement from more stakeholders, alongside private initiatives aimed at its improvement. Changing public perceptions of animal welfare further pressures institutions responsible for its oversight. This trend of shifting animal welfare from expert-driven governance to a political issue illustrates its growing <em>politicisation</em>. Research indicates that politicisation processes can lead to <em>declining trust</em> and <em>increasing polarisation</em> across various areas. This study uses the theoretical lens of politicisation to explore how trust in farm animal welfare has evolved over time within Norwegian food production. Norway is a unique case, as surveys from 1997 to 2007 revealed some of the highest trust levels in responsible food and meat production across Europe. However, rationalisation in the agricultural sector, media scrutiny, and heightened activity from private actors are pressuring policymakers and the agricultural sector to maintain legitimacy amid demands to ‘deliver’ good animal welfare as a common interest. As the debate intensifies, this study examines 2020 survey data to evaluate Norway's position 13 years after the previous survey. The results reveal both change and stability in public trust regarding farm animal welfare. First, trust has declined, though primarily from high levels to greater uncertainty. Second, public trust differs by gender, education, place of residence, and political affiliation, but these differences have not increased since 2007—suggesting that polarisation has remained stable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103557"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132327","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}

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What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103548

Ana Novak, Živa Alif, Luka Juvančič, Tanja Šumrada

{"title":"What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia","authors":"Ana Novak, Živa Alif, Luka Juvančič, Tanja Šumrada","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103548","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103548","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study uses the extended Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to explore farmers' participation in knowledge transfer activities and the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) based agricultural advisory services. Results based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and survey data of 4742 farmers who attended agri-environmental, organic farming or animal welfare training in Slovenia show that perceived behaviour control and attitudes were the most important factors influencing their intention to participate in future training. Satisfaction with the training, which was affected by the training content, design, and quality of the lecturer, had a further positive effect on the intention. We found that farmers who attended online sessions were less satisfied with the training than those participating in-person. Finally, online training was more likely attended by farmers who found it challenging to attend in-person due to lack of transportation options or time, and who had sufficient ICT knowledge, equipment and internet connection. Online sessions were also more often attended by older, female and part-time farmers. Our results emphasise the crucial role of offering advisory services adapted to the farmers' needs and preferences, as their satisfaction influences their attendance in training programs, which are often voluntary. Furthermore, the training design and implementation should take into account the needs of different groups of farmers, as the ICT-based advisory services may still not be evenly accessible to all farmers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103548"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131509","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}

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Rural transformation and the future of China's "granary": A perspective on livelihood trajectories

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103524

Jianzhi Liu , Yangang Fang , Jiajun Qiao , Mark W. Rosenberg , Ruru Wang , Xiaoyue Liu , Shuhan Yu

{"title":"Rural transformation and the future of China's \"granary\": A perspective on livelihood trajectories","authors":"Jianzhi Liu , Yangang Fang , Jiajun Qiao , Mark W. Rosenberg , Ruru Wang , Xiaoyue Liu , Shuhan Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103524","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103524","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent research demonstrates that the core features of agricultural and rural transformation in grain-dependent areas of the newly industrializing countries in East and Southeast Asia do not fully align with classical theories and paradigms. However, there is a lack of a theoretical model that illustrates the general patterns of rural evolution and transformation in these areas during structural transformation and outlines their future trajectories. Through case studies of a well-known grain base in China, this paper explores this issue using an analytical framework consisting of the trajectory of agricultural transformation associated with rural residents' livelihood changes and the trajectory of rural community restructuring induced by these livelihood changes. The results show that, since structural transformation, the grain-dependent countryside of China has roughly undergone an evolution from a stage of relative isolation and self-sufficiency, marked by agricultural involution, to a stage of accelerating factor flows between cities and the countryside, marked by part-time livelihoods, and finally to the current stage of accumulating \"potential energies\" for rural restructuring, marked by population aging. Meanwhile, challenges to the further transformation of the countryside are rooted in the socioeconomic characteristics of the middle-income period, which underscores the significance of overcoming the middle-income trap. Finally, we propose theoretical patterns for the future trajectories of China's grain-dependent countryside through the scenario analysis based on overcoming the middle-income trap and discuss the implications for rural revitalization in these areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103524"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131531","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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Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103549

W.J. de Lange , F. van der Bank , M.E. Volscheck , T.E. Kleynhans

{"title":"Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa","authors":"W.J. de Lange , F. van der Bank , M.E. Volscheck , T.E. Kleynhans","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103549","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103549","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Commercial farms have increased in physical size and the spectrum of managerial skills required to farm viably. The pivotal role of commercial farms as centres of rural development has spurred much research investigating the multiple factors contributing to successful farmers in developing countries. Given the limited control over socio-economic conditions and farm characteristics, understanding the individual factors that account for the success of farmers is of special interest. Studies on farmer success traditionally focused on demographic factors and technical/functional skills, with a growing concern for managerial capacity and decision-making. We contribute to this discussion by developing an integrative, behaviour-based competency model that cuts across different functional areas.</div><div>Critical incident interviews were conducted with a stratified sample of successful farmers (N = 48) across various agricultural industries to explore the behavioural competencies for long-term success in commercial agriculture in the rural context. By integrating primary interview data with current literature on farmer success and leadership models, we identified 12 key competencies for sustained successful farming which were clustered into five categories, namely creating the vision and strategic planning; monitoring and analysing information; collaborating and human resource capacity; character strengths; and commercial acumen and technical expertise. The result reveals that leadership attributes are on equal footing with the technical and economic attributes of successful farms. The study emphasises the importance of leadership competence as a vital component for growth and provides new insights into why so many farm development support schemes in developing economies fail even when abundant technical and economic assistance is provided.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103549"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131586","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}

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