Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	203
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	180
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	171
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	166
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	155
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	147
Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil	121
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	116
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	105
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	99
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	88
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	85
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	85
The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system	83
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	82
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	81
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	81
Conditions for doing business in rural areas: Survey evidence from in-movers and stayers	78
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	78
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	77
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	77
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	77
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	75
Identifying and characterising social sustainability in the Dutch agricultural sector	73
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	72

Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion	71
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	70
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	69
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	68
Exploring the farmland-livelihood nexus among vulnerable rural households: A case study from a main grain production region of Northeast China	67
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	67
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	66
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	64
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	57
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	56
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar	55
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	53
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers	53
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture	52
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	51
Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs?	51
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	51
Editorial Board	51
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	49
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	49
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas	48
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	47
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	47
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	45
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	45
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico	45
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms	45
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)	45
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982	45
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark	44
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	43
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK	43
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	42
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences	42
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?	42
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?	41
Addressing the challenges of agro-cattle farming in Bangladesh: A study on educated youth entrepreneurs	41
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type	41
Rural housewives clubs- unlocking the potential of Women's agency in local development in Poland	40
Scholar-institutional entrepreneurs in rural tourism path innovation: the case of Azheke plan in China	40
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	40
Blame it on the rain: Rainfall shock and consumption smoothing in rural China	40
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside	39
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	39
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	39
Regional drivers or local constraints? Spatial patterns and development pathways of specialized villages in Henan, China	39
Corrigendum to “Climate-smart agriculture & the impact of financial incentives on adoption: an econometric analysis” [J. Rural Stud., 123, March 2026, 104035]	39
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities	38
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	38
Editorial Board	38

Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	38
Editorial Board	38
Editorial Board	37
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining	37
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni	36
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt	36
Women empowering rural Spain: A study of entrepreneurial career satisfaction	36
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research	36
Communities of practice and rural women's empowerment: Insights from a case study of grassroots cooperative in Turkey	36
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition	35
Empowering farmers to conserve grassland's genetic diversity in situ	34
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions	34
Wellbeing dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies	34
Social innovation and their legitimation processes within rural developments in east Germany	34
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China	34
Beyond human health – Exploring farmers' perspectives on pesticides in Swiss agriculture	34
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming	34
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland	33
The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China	33
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors	33
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers	33
Diversity evolution pattern of rural settlements and its driving mechanism transition: A case study in Southwest China's karst mountains	32
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU	32
Policy intervention mechanism on farmers’ intention to promote water-saving irrigation: Evidence from China	32
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives	32
What typifies participatory art projects in the countryside? A quantitative study of the rural-urban continuum of community-based art initiatives	32
Unpacking local food politics in scaling sustainable public food procurement	32
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases	31
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry	31
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking	31
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press	31
Gendered cognition, intra-household preference divergence, and behavioral choice: How gender differences shape GM maize adoption in smallholder families	31
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia	31
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective	31
The rural development trilemma	31
How does gender shape the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices? Evidence from Belgium	30
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China	30
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production	30
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast	30
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Understanding resilience capacities in rural AGRO-Industries: Evidence from Spanish wineries	29
Editorial Board	29
End of life, a good death? Navigating end-of-life decisions for working mules (Equus asinus × Equus caballus) in Nepal: Ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives	29
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States	29
A cross-domain coupling framework for digital twins in rural regional systems: Insights from China	29
Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development	28
Governing modesty: Platformed urban gaze and rural Chinese housewives on Douyin	28
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden	28
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility	28
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia	28
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia	28
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance	28
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden	28
Demand for veterinary services in Cambodia: Determining factors and differing roles of service providers	27
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China	27
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya	27
Revealing nested archetypes of cropland abandonment based on social-ecological system theory	27
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef	27
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns	27
Experiences of dementia in farming communities: A scoping review	27
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?	27
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach	27
How can rural e-commerce promote green production on family farms in China? Evidence from Hunan Province	26
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China	26
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality	26
Enacting rural community resilience: An agency theoretical perspective on an emerging local food community	26
Digital rurality: A three-fold model and research agenda	26
Challenges facing agricultural cooperatives in Mediterranean countries	25
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences	25
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar	25
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	25
Home is where the welfare is: Healthcare portability and settlement intentions of rural migrants in China	25
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms	25
Editorial Board	25
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America	25
Localized practices of rural tourism makers from a resilience perspective: A comparative study in China	25
Post-rural mental health: Developing Nye et al.’s research agenda for mental health in agricultural areas	25
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union	25
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China	25
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal	24

A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives	24
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater	24
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland	24
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender	24
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?	24
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability	24
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago	24
Social network analysis to identify actors for participatory food system transformation – Learning from two case studies in Switzerland	24
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 2020	24
Agricultural dynamism and the influence of territorial characteristics in attracting young farmers	23
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania	23
Investigating robot acceptance in UK agriculture	23
Justifications for farm practices and animal welfare among Norwegian livestock farmers	23
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia	22
The humans behind the herd: are alternative livestock farms agroecological from a socioeconomic perspective?	22
Identifying the specific features, determinants, and suitability of green homestay inn distribution in rural China	22
The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas	22
Community-supported agriculture and allotment gardens as collective forms of food production – Investigating the effect of social capital on perceived benefits	22
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region	22
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau	22
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China	22
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach	22
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing	21
Effects of digital economy-driven Chinese-style agricultural modernisation--based on analysis of mediating effects and spatial spillovers	21
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel	21
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being	21
Learning from the past and embracing future opportunities: Perceptions of new Environmental Land Management Schemes and private nature markets	21
Rebalancing healthcare utilization: Rural-urban health insurance integration and health-seeking behavior of rural residents in China	21
Effect of China's new rural pension scheme on the consumption of relatively poor households	21
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy	21
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm	21
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up	21
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation	21
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China	21
Agricultural tenancies in Scotland: how much does the legislative framework affect the power balance between landowners and tenants?	21
Editorial Board	21
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania	20
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration	20
“With the horizon ahead”: Emancipatory politics and radical imagination in the Catalan Pyrenees	20
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations	20
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning	20
Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’	20
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework	20
Connectivity or proximity planning in rural areas? Accessibility and equity insights from Crete, Greece	20
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system	20
Fisheries area-based partnerships in European multilevel governance: understanding embeddedness in organisational environments	20
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines	20
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland	19
Smog and Air Pollution: Journalistic Criticism and Environmental Accountability in China	19
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp	19
Corrigendum to “Servant leadership and members' well-being in China's village committees: A multilevel analysis of the serial mediating roles of serving culture and organization-based self-esteem” [J.	19
How digital literacy influence rural residents' demand for low-carbon housing renovations?	19
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action	19
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change	19
Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery: Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems	19
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis	19
A narrative study of why young people go ‘back-to-the-land’: Interpretation from the perspective of self-identity theory	19
Putting access to internet-enabled work in its place: Insights from rural Atlantic Canada	19
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action	19
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria	19
Promoting rural revitalization in ethnic minority areas through characteristic plant industries: A comprehensive development framework from Yunnan with cross-regional comparative insights	19
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation	18
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain	18
Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism	18
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK	18
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia	18
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health	18
Beyond the idyll: The recreation of rurality within rural consumption space through a new materialism approach in traditional villages in Yi County, China	18
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers	18
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers	18
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	18
Understanding stress factors in farming: A nationwide survey on occupational strain and mental health among Austrian farmers	18
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons	18
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network	18
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming	18
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies	18
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study	18
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China	18
Growing together – How institutional structures influence communal agricultural prosumption types and their potential for continuity	17
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries	17
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies	17
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina	17
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production	17
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen	17
Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa	17
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China	17
From drought to recovery: How extreme drought drives adaptive behaviour and grain production efficiency in Sichuan and Chongqing, China	17
Reviving rural “dead capital” through transferable development rights: A spatial justice analysis of online citizen–government interactions in China	17
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo	17
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural	17
Formative influences: How capital shapes rural students’ college-going intentions	17
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China	17
Administrative burdens as barriers to afforestation: A sludge audit of Ireland's afforestation scheme	17
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences	17
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan	17