Showing papers in "Journal of Rural Studies in 2013"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a critique of the specific claim that we need to increase global food production by 70-100% in order to feed the world in 2050 and challenge the dominant framing of the problem of food security in the UK, and its resolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the more turbulent period in agri-food by applying a transitions perspective to a range of empirical data collected from key private and public stakeholders in the UK during that period.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper put forward an innovative theory of URED against the background of China's urban-rural transformation using principal component analysis, Markov chain model and exploratory spatial data analysis model based on the data for 31 Chinese provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).

TL;DR: The authors argue that productivist farming approaches that are favored by both industry and government are proving incapable of bringing about long-term production outcomes that will guarantee national food security, and argue that expansion in food production in an era of climate change will continue to compromise the environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present from 17 community land trusts (CLTs) in Scotland demonstrate processes of proactive change being implemented by communities-of-place, rather than simply as reactions to external shocks or events.

TL;DR: The findings reveal that the availability of household labor, particularly children, access to cultivated land, and livestock ownership hinder decision to livelihood transition net of other factors known to influence livelihood change.

TL;DR: The role of various social ties in building trust and providing opportunities for information acquisition and knowledge exchange (IAKE) was explored in this paper, where social capital was used as a vehicle to explore the relationships between farmers and their advisors using bovine tuberculosis (bTB), a major disease facing the English cattle industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the motives underlying decisions by farmers to start new ventures outside conventional agriculture and assessed the importance of the farm family situation in formulating these motives, finding that the motives for starting new ventures were dependent on the situation of the family, but that the two groups of indicators identified influenced these motives in opposite ways.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) development in a remote region of Western Australia shows that these changes are indeed creating opportunities to shape the local impacts of extractive industries.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical problem solving approach and grounded theory as a strategy is used to study agroforestry and subsistence agriculture as integrated, yet separate, socio-ecological systems with different organisational logics and temporal dynamics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated sustainable lifestyles in relation to food systems and explored the surprisingly neglected case of widely practised and environmentally sustainable food self-provisioning in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe.

TL;DR: In Italy, the Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (GAS) is a group of households that cooperate in purchasing food and other goods directly from producers on the basis of ethical and environmental criteria and considerations of solidarity.

TL;DR: This article explored counterurbanisation in times of crisis, focusing on the importance of the extended family in counter-urban movements, in terms of the location of destination and the multiple support offered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the learning process leading to the development of entrepreneurial skills in the context of multifunctional agriculture and found that re-developing an entrepreneurial identity, crossing the boundaries of agriculture and opening up the family farm are three major factors driving entrepreneurial learning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the voluntary adoption of water quality management techniques between farmers within a designated Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) with those outside the zone across Scotland.

TL;DR: In this article, the UK government's approach to food production and food security has been underpinned by the notion of resilience, which it considers is best achieved through sustainable intensification, market liberalisation and risk management, with local food systems largely sidelined within these official food security framings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the global food system is vulnerable to three interconnected challenges that make a largely productivist strategy inappropriate, and that these issues are closely inter-related and until we address the fact that the food system remains dominated by powerful economic interests, an effective solution will remain elusive.

TL;DR: This article examined the discursive foundations for promotion of agricultural biotechnology, arguing that notions of progress and "science-based" risk assessment act as "anti-political" strategies to remove consideration of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from the cut and thrust of politics.

TL;DR: The authors studied the deinstitutionalization of regions in the context of municipality amalgamations and the consequent rise of resistance identities that have followed rural-urban mergers in Finland.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-examine three Canadian villages (Elora, St. Jacobs and Ferryland) to illustrate how rural landscapes change as they transition from a productivist-based to potentially multi-functional state.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that GI schemes embedded in Global or International Value Chains and implemented as a product differentiation strategy in developing countries may support the technical and economic development of some rural areas but at the same time they can contribute to the exclusion of farmers in more marginalised areas from the benefits of the initiative.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the role that food security has played in the evolution of the food discourse in Italy, a country with a strong and internationally recognized food culture, and identify three phases of this evolution: in the first phase, from the end of the Second World War to the end-1980s, the modernization frame, with its emphasis on productivity and the industrial organization of production, dominates in a context populated mainly by agricultural actors.

TL;DR: This paper used Ricoeur's (1986) examination of ideology and utopia to demonstrate the likely limited impact of the commodity price shock on existing production practices in the New Zealand pastoral farming sectors.

TL;DR: In this article, a new way of thinking about farmer attachments is devised that involves decoupling three elements: attachment to farming as an activity and source of agrarian identity; attachment to the farm as an economic and social unit; and attachment to place.

TL;DR: This paper found that consumers do not necessarily share the neoliberal view that consumer choice is the engine for sustainability and food security, on the contrary, consumers in their research were well aware that food prices and the choices made available are shaped by forces beyond the control of individual shoppers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the two-stage gentrification processes in Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou, China and reveal the ways in which interplays between the aestheticisation of rural living and indigenous villagers' rent-seeking behaviour fostered rural immigration and gentrification.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of pre-retirement age mobility in the repopulation of rural areas and argued that while this under-researched cohort offers opportunities to support the social and economic sustainability of rural communities, there are notable challenges which are likely to emerge as it ages in situ.

TL;DR: A critical review of the international literature on gender, disaster and rural masculinities is provided in this article, where a critical assessment is provided of the concept of a specifically Australian, rural hegemonic masculinity as a possible way of better understanding the social dimensions of gender, and bushfire preparation and response in the Australian context.

TL;DR: This paper examined approaches to food system change emphasizing regionalization, rather than either either localization or globalization, to consider framings of food security, and found that institutions with markedly different histories, interests and power can align with a widening, ascendant food security risk frame.