Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	209
Rural housing after the end of coal. The case of Boxberg (Upper Lusatia, Germany)	170
Understanding rural business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	141
The impact of “artificial wool” on the New Zealand wool industry: Lessons for future substitution transitions in the agricultural sector	141
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina	112
Agrifood policy after Brexit: The growing role of agroecology in Wales	98
Nuancing the commercial counterurbanisation debate: job creation and capacity building in an island setting	97
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral	91
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	79
Evaluating the sustainability of rural complex ecosystems during the development of traditional farming villages into tourism destinations: A diachronic emergy approach	79
Rural credit acquisition for family farming in Brazil: Evidence from the Legal Amazon	73
The future of small farms and small food businesses as actors in regional food security: A participatory scenario analysis from Europe and Africa	70
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	64
More than spatial coordination – How Dutch agricultural collectives foster social capital for effective governance of agri-environmental measures	64
Assessing the economics and finances of Artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Guyana	62
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies	61
Climate considerations aside: What really matters for farmers in their implementation of climate mitigation measures	60
Understanding the distribution patterns and underlying mechanisms of non-grain use of cultivated land in rural China	60
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China	60
Understanding diversity in farmers’ routinized crop protection practices	59
Heuristics and farm heterogeneity: Evidence from small-scale farmers in Brazil	57
Donald Trump and changing rural/urban voting patterns	57
The strength of formal weak ties: The vital role of formal institutional networks for America's disconnected youth	56
Changing scripts: Gender, family farm succession and increasing farm values in Australia	56
Identifying knowledge gaps surrounding antimicrobial resistance: An exploratory study of antimicrobial resistant genes on Pennsylvania dairy farms	55

Metrics and public accountability, the case of species credits in the USA	55
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	54
Examining farmers’ motivations to engage in low-carbon agricultural practices: A study of New Zealand dairy farmers	54
Dying villages to prosperous villages: A perspective from revitalization of idle rural residential land (IRRL)	52
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences	51
Tea farmers’ intention to participate in Livestream sales in Vietnam: The combination of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and barrier factors	51
Local and vertical networking as drivers of innovativeness and growth in rural businesses	51
The actions of key agents in facilitating rural super-gentrification: Evidence from the English countryside	50
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	49
Does the extent of time in drought affect the rate of farm ownership change in a local government area? A sixteen-year assessment of rural land ownership change in New South Wales, Australia	48
Rural return migration in the post COVID-19 China: Incentives and barriers	47
Animal welfare and cow-calf contact-farmers’ attitudes, experiences and adoption barriers	47
Beyond transformations: Zooming in on agricultural digitalization and the changing social practices of rural farming in Northern Ghana, West Africa	46
Supermarket environment and nutrition outcomes: Evidence from rural China	46
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges	45
Rethinking the place of agricultural land preservation for the development of food systems in planning of peri-urban areas: Insights from two French municipalities	45
Editorial Board	44
Scalar politics, power struggles and institutional emergence in Daw Lar Lake, Myanmar	43
Editorial Board	42
Transcultural validation of a scale in English, Portuguese and Spanish to assess rural extension agents’ beliefs about extension and innovation	42
Examining the need for organisational learning and entrepreneurialism to meet the changing roles and expectations of rural and agricultural shows in the UK	41
Metrics of open government in Mexican fisheries	41
Alternative development trajectories? A quantitative analysis of religion as a vector of mobility and education among the Hmong in upland Vietnam	40
The role of land inequality in the poverty-forest loss nexus patterns: A case study from Chile	40
Belonging, identity and place: Middle-class Tasmanian rural young people in urban university	39
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis	39
“Examining Rust Belt narratives: Race, rural representation, and everyday experiences”	39
Where do we meet? Exploring how facilities and meeting places in rural areas contribute to quality of life	39
Who decides? The governance of rewilding in Scotland ‘between the cracks’: community participation, public engagement, and partnerships	39
Challenges and policy implication of bridging the digital divide for native American Tribes:A community resilience approach	39
Editorial Board	38
Who benefits from the agrarian transition under violent conflict? Evidence from Myanmar	38
Governing food futures: Towards a ‘responsibility turn’ in food and agriculture	38
Work from home behaviors among U.S. urban and rural residents	38
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries	37
Nature in the showcase. Naturbanization keys in Chile and Spain	37
Advancing rural as ‘something more than a human estate’: Exploring UK sheep-shaping	36
Place-bereavement-trajectories: Life-course experiences of loss in rural Irish communities	36
Very good farmers, not particularly good business-people: A rural financial counsellor perspective on rural business failure	35
The survival of agriculture on the edge: Perceptions of push and pull factors for the persistence of the ancient chinampas of Xochimilco, Mexico City	35
New farmers in the south of Italy: Capturing the complexity of contemporary strategies and networks	35
Planning for socially sustainable rural housing in Sweden	35
What's the beef?: Debating meat, matters of concern and the emergence of online issue publics	35
On-farm agricultural inputs and changing boundaries: Innovations around production of microorganisms in Brazil	34
Co-evolution of technology and rural society: The blossoming of taobao villages in the information era, China	34
Perceived effects of climate policy on rural areas and agriculture: A rural-urban- divide	34
From family to markets. How institutional determinants of rural youth transitions have changed in Senegal and Zambia over time	34
Short-term or long-term? New insights into rural collectives' perceptions of Land Value Capture within China's rural land marketization reform	34
Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing	34
Think like a fenceline: Exploring the power of farm boundaries	33

The prevalence of farmer burnout: Systematic review and narrative synthesis	33
Reflexivity and certified crop advisors’ knowledge paradigms as related to pesticide resistance management	33
Understanding “public” framings of private places and psychological ownership in a rural land use conflict	32
Rural gym spaces and masculine physical cultures in an ‘age of change’: Rurality, masculinity, inequalities and harm in ‘the gym’	32
Homestead withdrawal behaviour of rural migrants in China: The role of joint reform of hukou system and homestead system	32
The role of female-only business networks in rural development: Evidence from NSW, Australia	32
Return migration and in-situ urbanization of 79 migrant sending counties in China: Characteristic and driving factors	31
The living environment and intravillage activity-travel: A conceptual framework based on participant observation in Guangdong, China	31
Sustainable food policies without sustainable farming? Challenges for agroecology-oriented farmers in relation to urban (sustainable) food policies	31
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	31
Good Animal Welfare in Norwegian Farmers’ context. Can both industrial and natural conventions be achieved in the social license to farm?	31
Coffee and the agrarian questions in Laos and Rwanda: Taking a bottom-up perspective	30
Norwegian wood, isn't it good? Narratives of the lumber industry and development paths in the Nordic periphery	30
Liberal LGBTphobia in rural spaces: Israeli lesbian and bisexual women's relationality	30
Grappling with governance: Emerging approaches to build community economies	29
Wellbeing and collective grievances among farmers: The case of Flanders, Belgium	28
Rural imaginaries in China's Three Gorges region	28
Entrepreneurial marketing practices and rural wine producers’ performance: The moderating role of competitive intensity in an immediate post crisis period	28
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	28
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	28
Where is the city? Where is the countryside? Assessing the Methods for the Classification of Urban, Rural, and Intermediate Areas in Europe	28
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects: A synthesis of mixed methods impact evaluations from the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2)	28
KIBS as knowledge sources for innovation in rural regions	28
A serious games methodology to test solutions for regional food systems inequities	27
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective	27
Exploring the relationship between regenerative grazing and Ranchers’ wellbeing	27
Coordination work – Tuning and timing rice production in Burkina Faso	27
Marriage squeeze in the Loess Plateau Region, Northwestern China: A case study of two villages	27
Understanding rural gentrification in China: Examining the evolving concept and comparative insights	27
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen	27
Drivers of farmers’ adaptive behavior to climate change: The 3F-SEC framework	27
Depopulation determinants of small rural municipalities in the Valencia Region (Spain)	26
Livestock farmers’ perceptions towards genetically engineered methods and genetically modified organisms in Denmark and Sweden	26
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural	26
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo	25
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan	25
"ICI ON TRAVAILLE: The role of cooperatives in structuring social relations of production in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Eastern DRC	25
Female artists work and creativity in the rural: Beyond core and periphery	25
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	25
Pathways towards sustainability: A capacity needs assessment for the implementation of the Colombian Policy for Sustainable Cattle 2022–2050	24
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	24
What knowledge is required to grow food? A framework for understanding horticulture's skills ‘crisis’	24
The Cultural Political Economy of rural governance: Regional development in Hesse (Germany)	24
Rethinking the divide: Exploring the interdependence between global and nested local markets	24
Conservation agriculture in new alluvial agro-ecology: Differential perception and adoption	24
Theoretical and practical research into excavation slope protection for agricultural geographical engineering in the Loess Plateau: A case study of China's Yangjuangou catchment	24
Exchanges among farmers’ collectives in support of sustainable agriculture: From review to reconceptualization	24
Implications of alternative farm management patterns to promote resilience in extensive sheep farming. A Spanish case study	24
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	24
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	23
Attachment to land and its downfalls: Can policy encourage land mobility?	23
“No turning back”: The emergence and settlement of GMO hegemony in Brazil	23
The psychosocial impact of Mycoplasma bovis on southern New Zealand farmers: The human cost of managing an exotic animal disease incursion	23
Governing Farmers through data? Digitization and the Question of Autonomy in Agri-environmental governance	23
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China	23
Urban–rural disparity of child poverty in China: Spatio-temporal changes and influencing factors	23
The emergence of social innovation in rural revitalisation practices: A comparative case study from Taiwan	23
Aligning bottom-up initiatives and top-down policies? A comparative analysis of overfishing and coastal governance in Ghana, Tanzania, the Philippines, and Thailand	23
The impact of digitalization and automation on horticultural employees – A systematic literature review and field study	23
Health services and eHealth from the perspective of older rural residents of Finnish Lapland	23
Wellbeing and health in a small New Zealand rural community: Assets, capabilities and being rural-fit	23
Lock-ins to transition pathways anchored in contextualized cooperative dynamics: Insights from the historical trajectories of the Walloon dairy cooperatives	23
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital	23
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	22
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China	22
“No better or worse off”: Mycoplasma bovis, farmers and bureaucracy	22
Identifying and addressing ‘wicked’ social problems in community forestry in Papua New Guinea	22
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	22
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture	22
Empowering rural women through gender and nutrition education amid the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from Myanmar's Central Dry Zone	22
Belonging from the margin: The changing village and its others	22
Beyond clients and citizens: Making claims in rural India	22
The transformative potential of Seed Commons: Applying the social-ecological transformation framework to agri-food systems	22
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	22
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors	21
Interrelationships amongst critical success factors and rural social enterprises’ performance in a developing country context	21
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings: A mixed-methods review	21
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	21
Social capital and soil conservation: Is there a connection? Evidence from Peruvian cocoa farms	21
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability	21

Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness	21
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	21
Social innovation and community-focussed civic initiatives in the context of rural depopulation: For everybody by everybody? Project Ulrum 2034	21
The farm worker and the ‘drift to the land’. Roots, routes, opportunities and constraints to career pathways in farming	21
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	21
‘Moving to the countryside and staying’? Exploring doctors’ migration choices to rural areas	20
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	20
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	20
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities	20
Impact of socioeconomic factors on vegetation restoration in humid karst areas of China: Evidence from a survey of 45 villages	20
Why farmers perceive the use of e-government services as an administrative burden: A conceptual framework on influencing factors	19
“Can the participation of civil society in policy networks mitigate against societal challenges in rural areas?”	19
Understanding farm generational renewal and its influencing factors in Europe	19
Examining the connection between resourcefulness and resilience: Analysis of UK rural SME firm-level enterprise characteristics	19
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	19
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	19
‘I don’t fertilise quite like that’: Mediating and distancing capacities of nutrient records at Finnish farms	19
The introduction of digital technologies into agriculture: Space, materiality and the public–private interacting forms of authority and expertise	19
Cultural landscape transformations in the "Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene" UNESCO World Heritage Site in the context of terrain morphology	19
Do rural school closures lead to local population decline?	19
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier	19
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	19
Understanding decision processes in becoming a fee-for-hire service provider: A case study on direct seeded rice in Bihar, India	19
Challenges for tourism-related lifestyle migrant entrepreneurship in rural areas of the Algarve, Portugal	18
Female entrepreneurs and path-dependency in rural tourism	18
The adoption of conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in southern Africa: A scoping review of barriers and enablers	18
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support	18
Rural gentrification, touristification, and displacement: Analysing evidence from Mexico	18
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	18
Differentiated discharge patterns, causes and prevention measures of rural non-point source pollution in the four economic regions of mainland China	18
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production	18
Those who go without: an ethnographic analysis of the lived experiences of rural mental health and healthcare infrastructure	18
Banditry as rural crime?	18
Immigration and integration in rural areas and the agricultural sector: An EU perspective	18
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective	18
Benchmarking the vitality of shrinking rural regions in Finland	18
Everyday resilience: Rural communities as agents of change in peatland social-ecological systems	18
Unraveling farmers' interrelated adaptation and mitigation adoption decisions under perceived climate change risks	18
To participate, or not to participate – That is the question. (Non-)participation of older residents in rural communities	18
Multi-objective spatial reconstruction of rural settlements considering intervillage social connections	18
Developing a framework for radical and incremental social innovation in rural areas	17
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture	17
Training and retention in rural and remote Australia: Examining the association between GP vocational training placements and subsequent practice location in Western Australia	17
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?	17
Study on spatial tropism distribution of rural settlements in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region based on natural factors and traffic accessibility	17
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences	17
Protecting provenance, abandoning agriculture? Heritage products, industrial ideals and the uprooting of a Spanish turrón	17
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	17
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type	17
The impacts of social network on non-farm self-employment: Evidence from Vietnam	17
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms	17
Rural attraction: The spatial pattern and driving factors of China's rural in-migration	17
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	17
Exploring minority ethnic communities’ access to rural green spaces: The role of agency, identity, and community-based initiatives	17
Multi-actor rural innovation ecosystems: Definition, dynamics, and spatial relations	17
Third places in rural America: Prevalence and disparities in use and meaningful use	17
Short-term gain, long-term loss: Exploring the effects of Covid-19 survival strategies on rural livelihoods and the agrarian economy	17
Assessing rural wellbeing through design of a farmer-focused survey methodology: The importance of cultural health, ease of use and farming specific questions	16
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	16
Farmer perspectives on crop residue burning and sociotechnical transition in Punjab, India	16
Socioeconomic threats are more salient to farmers than environmental threats	16
Relating the management difficulty to the abandonment rate of traditional mountain vineyards	16
World System satellites: Place-making and inequality during the 1990s rural migration rebound	16
Editorial Board	16
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?	16
Elementary school closures in Sweden over two decades: Geographical characteristics and the role of distance	16
“Enough is enough, we like our farms”: The role of landscape ideology in shaping perceptions of solar energy and agrivoltaics in the rural American Southwest	16
Food policy integration in small cities: The case of intermunicipal governance in Lucca, Italy	16
Raising up to the climate challenge - Understanding and assessing farmers’ strategies to build their resilience. A comparative analysis between Ugandan and Swiss farmers	16
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982	16
Attending to nature: Understanding care and caring relations in forest management in the UK	16
Bridging social capital as a resource for rural revitalisation in China? A survey of community connection of university students with home villages	16
Refugee entrepreneurship in the agri-food industry: The Swedish experience	16
Anti-urbanization and rural development: Evidence from return migrants in China	16
Older adults’ resilience in rural places: Explaining the role of place, time, and social connection during COVID-19	16
Editorial Board	16
Rural businesses and levelling up: A rural-urban analysis of business innovation and exporting in England's north and midlands	16
Editorial Board	16
The will for terroir: A communicative approach	15
Responsibilising the Fairtrade Premium: Imagining better decision-making	15
Territorial capital and place attachment: A psychological approach of rural out-migration	15
Lived environmental citizenship through intersectional lenses: The experience of female community leaders in rural Chile	15
Alternatives to sustainable seafood certifications: Transitions of small-scale fisheries governance in northeastern Japan	15
Elaborating institutional arrangements to better enhance sustainable crop intensification in Uganda: A farmers’ perspective	15
Using a perception matrix to elicit farmers‘ perceptions towards stakeholders in the context of biodiversity-friendly farming	15
Local community leaders on social resilience to environmental disasters: The case of El Niño in Lurigancho-Chosica in Perú	15
Networks of care in Australian rural ageing populations	15
Networks and knowledge: Women's empowerment, networks, and health information-seeking behavior in rural Guatemala	15
“A heart attack away from boarding up Main Street”: How neoliberalization of farming shapes adaptive capacity to climate change in rural and small-town Saskatchewan, Canada	15
How effective are cash transfers in mitigating shocks for vulnerable children? Evidence on the impact of the Lesotho CGP on multiple deprivation	15
Editorial Board	15
Natural language processing of social network data for the evaluation of agricultural and rural policies	15
City region thinking, a zombie idea in regional and rural development? Scotland and Finland compared	15
Transmigration programs and migrant positions in rural community knowledge networks	15
Gendered effects of migration on social organization and smallholder production in Oubritenga Province, Burkina Faso	15