Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
Analyzing government role in rural tourism development: An empirical investigation from China	135
Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation	126
Drivers of farmers’ intention to adopt technological innovations in Italy: The role of information sources, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use	103
Smart rural futures: Will rural areas be left behind in the 4th industrial revolution?	99
The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model	95
An analysis of farmers’ intention to use green pesticides: The application of the extended theory of planned behavior and health belief model	94
Targeted poverty alleviation and its practices in rural China: A case study of Fuping county, Hebei Province	93
Influence of a new agricultural technology extension mode on farmers' technology adoption behavior in China	91
Informality and rural industry: Rethinking the impacts of E-Commerce on rural development in China	88
Rural innovation system: Revitalize the countryside for a sustainable development	82
Effects of rural–urban migration on agricultural transformation: A case of Yucheng City, China	78
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China	75
Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa's Western Cape	60
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	59
Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature	58
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	58
The spatial aggregation of rural e-commerce in China: An empirical investigation into Taobao Villages	56
Farm size and agricultural technology progress: Evidence from China	53
Hollowed out Heartland, USA: How capital sacrificed communities and paved the way for authoritarian populism	53
Rural revitalization of Xiamei: The development experiences of integrating tea tourism with ancient village preservation	52
Community-driven social innovation and quadruple helix coordination in rural development. Case study on LEADER group Aktion Österbotten	52
How does the rural settlement transition contribute to shaping sustainable rural development? Evidence from Shandong, China	52
Study on spatial tropism distribution of rural settlements in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region based on natural factors and traffic accessibility	50
The impact of land consolidation on rural vitalization at village level: A case study of a Chinese village	49
Effects of on-farm diversification strategies on smallholder coffee farmer food security and income sufficiency in Chiapas, Mexico	48

A trans-theoretical model for the adoption of drones by large-scale German farmers	47
How do we enact co-innovation with stakeholders in agricultural research projects? Managing the complex interplay between contextual and facilitation processes	47
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index	46
E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China	46
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand	45
Local place identity: A comparison between residents of rural and urban communities	45
Identification of the human-land relationship involved in the urbanization of rural settlements in Wuhan city circle, China	44
Multi-objective spatial reconstruction of rural settlements considering intervillage social connections	43
An integrated conceptual framework for the study of agricultural cooperatives: from repolitisation to cooperative sustainability	43
Neglected idle rural residential land (IRRL) in metropolitan suburbs: Spatial differentiation and influencing factors	43
Concerns about climate change among rural residents in Australia	42
Governing agricultural innovation: A comprehensive framework to underpin sustainable transitions	42
Livelihood resilience and the generative mechanism of rural households out of poverty: An empirical analysis from Lankao County, Henan Province, China	42
Entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector: Developments and trajectories	42
Evolution and transformation mechanism of the spatial structure of rural settlements from the perspective of long-term economic and social change: A case study of the Sunan region, China	42
Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI robotics	41
Farmland landscape fragmentation evolution and its driving mechanism from rural to urban: A case study of Changzhou City	40
Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly	40
The impacts of land fragmentation on irrigation collective action: Empirical test of the social-ecological system framework in China	40
Agricultural cooperatives contributing to the alleviation of rural poverty. The case of Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	40
Changing priorities, shifting narratives: Remapping rural livelihoods in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector	39
Gambling in the garden: Pesticide use and risk exposure in Ugandan smallholder farming	39
Disruptive innovation in agriculture: Socio-cultural factors in technology adoption in the developing world	39
Association between mental health and community support in lockdown communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from rural China	38
Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems	38
Research methods in rural studies: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods	38
Bridging youth and gender studies to analyse rural young women and men's livelihood pathways in Central Uganda	37
A conceptual model of entrepreneurial competencies and their impacts on rural youth's intention to launch SMEs	37
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture	37
Digital revolution and rural family income: Evidence from China	36
Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China	36
Will social capital affect farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation strategies? Evidences from rural households in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	36
Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines	36
Transitions in rural settlements and implications for rural revitalization in Guangdong Province	35
The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media	34
Definitions of “rural” and “urban” and understandings of economic transformation: Evidence from Tanzania	34
Evolution of cultivated land fragmentation and its driving mechanism in rural development: A case study of Jiangsu Province	34
The impact of the land certificated program on the farmland rental market in rural China	34
Growing algorithmic governmentality: Interrogating the social construction of trust in precision agriculture	34
Co-evolution of technology and rural society: The blossoming of taobao villages in the information era, China	34
Key actors in community-driven social innovation in rural areas in the Nordic countries	33
Automatic milking systems and farmer wellbeing–exploring the effects of automation and digitalization in dairy farming	33
Sparsely populated regions as a specific geographical environment	33
Does the Common Agricultural Policy enhance farming systems’ resilience? Applying the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) to a farming system case study in the Netherlands	33
A framework for recognizing diversity beyond capitalism in agri-food systems	32
The assessment of rural development: Identification of an applicable set of indicators through a Delphi approach	32
How digitalisation interacts with ecologisation? Perspectives from actors of the French Agricultural Innovation System	32
The rural exodus of young people from empty Spain. Socio-educational aspects	32
Social movements and institutional change in organic food markets: Evidence from participatory guarantee systems in Brazil and France	32
Rural attraction: The spatial pattern and driving factors of China's rural in-migration	31

Key steps and dynamics of family farm succession in marginal extensive livestock farming	31
Building agroecology with people. Challenges of participatory methods to deepen on the agroecological transition in different contexts	30
Dying villages to prosperous villages: A perspective from revitalization of idle rural residential land (IRRL)	30
Peasant households’ land use decision-making analysis using social network analysis: A case of Tantou Village, China	30
Village fund, village-owned-enterprises, and employment: Evidence from Indonesia	30
County-rural revitalization spatial differences and model optimization in Miyun District of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	29
Comprehensive land consolidation as a development policy for rural vitalisation: Rural In Situ Urbanisation through semi socio-economic restructuring in Huai Town	29
Mapping the research domains on work in agriculture. A bibliometric review from Scopus database	29
What to do with the farmland? Coping with ageing in rural Thailand	29
Non-point source pollution in response to rural transformation development: A comprehensive analysis of China's traditional farming area	28
How to increase rural NEETs professional involvement in agriculture? The roles of youth representations and vocational training packages improvement	28
The new geography of labour migration: EU11 migrants in rural Norway	28
Understanding farm generational renewal and its influencing factors in Europe	28
Co-designing a smartphone app for and with farmers: Empathising with end-users’ values and needs	28
Rural communities as a context for entrepreneurship: Exploring perceptions of youth and business owners	28
The value of cultural ecosystem services in a rural landscape context	28
Hard work and hazard: Young people and agricultural commercialisation in Africa	28
Study on the transformed farmland landscape in rural areas of southwest China: A case study of Chongqing	27
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	27
Sensemaking and the influencing factors on farmer decision-making	27
Assemblage and the ‘good farmer’: New entrants to crofting in scotland	27
Improving the framework for analyzing community resilience to understand rural revitalization pathways in China	26
The language of rural: Reflections towards an inclusive rural social science	26
Social inclusion in an alternative food network: Values, practices and tensions	26
The impact of oil palm on rural livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes in Latin America	26
Falling short of being the ‘good farmer’: Losses of social and cultural capital incurred through environmental mismanagement, and the long-term impacts agri-environment scheme participation	26
Implications of the digital divide on rural SME resilience	26
Mentoring entrepreneurship in a rural territory – A qualitative exploration of an entrepreneurship program for rural areas	26
Gender and the environmental concerns of young farmers: Do young women farmers make a difference on family farms?	25
The status of perceived community resilience in transitional rural society: An empirical study from central China	25
The transformative innovation potential of cellular agriculture: Political and policy stakeholders’ perceptions of cultured meat in Germany	25
Beyond government-led or community-based: Exploring the governance structure and operating models for reconstructing China's hollowed villages	25
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities: How men shape women's social relations and access to phones	25
‘You can't eat data’?: Moving beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming	25
‘Leaving no one unscathed’ in sustainability transitions: The life purging agro-extractivism of corporate renewables	24
The evaluation of a participatory extension programme focused on climate friendly farming	24
Evolution of rural settlement in an inland nonmetropolitan region of China at a time of rapid urbanisation: The case of Gongyi	24
Does land tenure fragmentation aggravate farmland abandonment? Evidence from big survey data in rural China	24
Entrepreneurs of the air: Sprayer drones as mediators of volumetric agriculture	24
Geographies of wellbeing and place attachment: Revisiting urban–rural migrants	24
The lost rural idyll? Tourists' attitudes towards sustainability and their influence on the production of rural space at a rural tourism hotspot in Northern Ireland	24
Demystifying the geography of income inequality in rural China: A transitional framework	24
Peripheries within economic geography: Four “problems” and the road ahead of us	24
Gendered division of labour and “sympathy” in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Prestea-Huni Valley Municipality, Ghana	23
Heritage in the making: Rural heritage and its mnemeiosis at Naxos island, Greece	23
Food governance in Territorial Short Food Supply Chains: Different narratives and strategies from Colombia and Spain	23
What determines women's agricultural participation? A comparative study of landholding households in rural India	23
New perspectives on the agriculture–migration nexus	23
“Of course we care!“: A qualitative exploration of Australian livestock producers’ understandings of farm animal welfare issues	23
Selection of targeted poverty alleviation policies from the perspective of land resources-environmental carrying capacity	23
Rural vitalization promoted by industrial transformation under globalization: The case of Tengtou village in China	23
Income effect of rural E-commerce: Empirical evidence from Taobao villages in China	23
Peri-urban agriculture as quiet sustainability: Challenging the urban development discourse in Sogamoso, Colombia	23
Cultivated land quality improvement to promote revitalization of sandy rural areas along the Great Wall in northern Shaanxi Province, China	23
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support	23
Agroecological break out: Legumes, crop diversification and the regenerative futures of UK agriculture	22
Smart farming in mountain areas: Investigating livestock farmers’ technophobia and technophilia and their perception of innovation	22
HOW does veganism contribute to shape sustainable food systems? Practices, meanings and identities of vegan restaurants in Porto Alegre, Brazil	22
From conversion to conservation to carbon: The changing policy discourse on mangrove governance and use in the Philippines	22
Institutional interaction and decision making in China's rural development	22
Social innovation in alternative food networks. The role of co-producers in Campi Aperti	22
Beyond consuming ethically? Food citizens, governance, and sustainability	22
What farmers want from mental health and wellbeing-focused websites and online interventions	22
Lives in limbo: Migrant integration and rural governance in Sweden	22
Colombia’s oil palm development in times of war and ‘peace’: Myths, enablers and the disparate realities of land control	22
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland	21
Women's changing productive practices, gender relations and identities in fishing through a critical feminisation perspective	21
Importance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy	21
Is the European countryside depopulating? Case study Moravia	21
Primary school closures and population development – is school vitality an investment in the attractiveness of the (rural) communities or not?	21
Graduate unemployment, artisanal and small-scale mining, and rural transformation in Ghana: What does the ‘educated’ youth involvement offer?	21
What do we talk about when we talk about milpa? A conceptual approach to the significance, topics of research and impact of the mayan milpa system	21
Digital from farm to fork: Infrastructures of quality and control in food supply chains	21
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?	21
Coastal transitions: Small-scale fisheries, livelihoods, and maritime zone developments in Southeast Asia	21
Exchanges among farmers’ collectives in support of sustainable agriculture: From review to reconceptualization	21
The role of metrics in the governance of the water-energy-food nexus within the European Commission	21
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	20
The Success Factors of wine tourism entrepreneurship for rural area: A thematic biographical narrative analysis in Turkey	20
Financial-related psychological factors affect life satisfaction of farmers	20

Evaluating the sustainability of rural complex ecosystems during the development of traditional farming villages into tourism destinations: A diachronic emergy approach	20
National specialization policy versus farmers’ priorities: Balancing subsistence farming and cash cropping in Nepal	20
Place attachment and digitalisation in rural regions	20
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry	20
What's the beef?: Debating meat, matters of concern and the emergence of online issue publics	20
Do settlements isolation and land use changes affect poverty? Evidence from a mountainous province of China	20
Rural revitalization through territorial distinctiveness: The use of geographical indications in Turkey	20
‘Ghetto tomatoes’ and ‘taxi drivers’: The exploitation and control of Sub-Saharan African migrant tomato pickers in Puglia, Southern Italy	20
Innovation resistance and mobile banking in rural Colombia	20
Responsibility-driven collective action in the context of rapid rural depopulation	19
#farming365 – Exploring farmers’ social media use and the (re)presentation of farming lives	19
The end of the urban-rural dichotomy? Towards a new regional typology for SME performance	19
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach	19
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry	19
Local adaptation strategies to increase or maintain soil organic carbon content under arable farming in Europe: Inspirational ideas for setting operational groups within the European innovation partne	19
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU	19
Agroecology prosumption: The role of CSA networks	18
Evaluation of sustainable agriculture and rural development in agro-pastoral ecotone under climate change: A comparative study of three villages in the Shenfu coalfield, China	18
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture	18
Environmental change and the livelihood resilience of coffee farmers in Jamaica: A case study of the Cedar Valley farming region	18
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland	18
Competitiveness of diversification strategies in agricultural dairy farms: Empirical findings for rural regions in Switzerland	18
Evaluating rural viability and well-being: Evidence from marginal areas in Tuscany	18
Reshaping a farming culture through participatory extension: An institutional logics perspective	18
Village development framework through self-help-group entrepreneurship, microcredit, and anchor customers in solar microgrids for cooperative sustainable rural societies	18
Spatial Justice and local capability in rural areas	18
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	18
Can employment empower women? Female workers in the pineapple sector in Ghana	18
The case for integrating household social needs and social policy into the international family farm research agenda	17
The impact of entrepreneurs' environmental analysis strategy on organizational performance	17
The ‘desk-chair countryside’: Affect, authenticity and the rural idyll in a farming computer game	17
Discrete event simulation in livestock management	17
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China	17
Beyond rural idyll? Social imaginaries, motivations and relations in Polish alternative food networks	17
What is holding farmers back? Endowments and mobility choice of rural citizens in China	17
Resisting the vineyard invasion: Anti-pesticide movements as a vehicle for territorial food democracy and just sustainability transitions	17
Heritage policy meets community praxis: Widening conservation approaches in the traditional villages of central Greece	17
Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing	17
What factors impact on technological traceability systems diffusion in the agrifood industry? An Italian survey	17
A quantitative analysis on Romanian rural areas, agritourism and the impacts of European Union’s financial subsidies	17
Why comply? Farmer motivations and barriers in cannabis agriculture	16
Patterns of rural collective action in contemporary China: An archetype analysis of rural construction land consolidation	16
Social, cultural and spatial imaginaries in rural tourism transitions	16
Community supported agriculture: Setting the research agenda through a bibliometric analysis	16
Cultural heritage as rural economic development: Batik production amongst China's Miao population	16
Developing rural insights for building age-friendly communities	16
“Depopulation, community-based tourism, and community resilience in southwest Spain”	16
Securitising uncertainty: Ontological security and cultural scripts in smart farming technology implementation	16
The complicated gendering of farming and household food responsibilities in northern Ghana	16
Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova	16
Amenities and new firm formation in rural areas	16
Reconceptualising the rural through planetary thinking: A field experiment of sustainable approaches to rural revitalisation in China	16
Relevance of local knowledge in decision-making and rural innovation: A methodological proposal for leveraging participation of Colombian cocoa producers	16
Rural community unbound: Trans-locality, rural-to-rural connections and the formation of inter-regional surname associations in China	16
Creating market opportunities in rural areas through the development of a brand that conveys sustainable and environmental values	16
Rural gentrification, touristification, and displacement: Analysing evidence from Mexico	16
Rural nonfarm sector and rural residents’ income research in China. An empirical study on the township and village enterprises after ownership reform (2000-2013)	16
Variations in the determinants of regional development disparities in rural China	16
Can extreme events be an opportunity? Depopulation and resilience of rural communities in Central Italy after the 1997 earthquake	16
Social acceptance of dual land use approaches: Stakeholders' perceptions of the drivers and barriers confronting agrivoltaics diffusion	16
Gender, decision-making and farm practice change: An action learning intervention in Myanmar	16
Embedding food in place and rural development: Insights from the Bluefin Tuna Cultural Festival in Donggang, Taiwan	16
The domestication triangle: How humans, animals and technology shape each other – The case of automated milking systems	16
The introduction of digital technologies into agriculture: Space, materiality and the public–private interacting forms of authority and expertise	16
Exploring the synergy between Community Supported Agriculture and agroforestry: Institutional innovation from smallholders in a brazilian rural settlement	15
Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England	15
Mission impossible? Pursuing the co-existence of viable predator populations and sustainable reindeer husbandry in Finland	15
The will for terroir: A communicative approach	15
Multi-dimensional superposition: Rural collaborative governance in Liushe Village, Suzhou City	15
Analysing the efficiency of diversified farms: Evidences from Italian FADN data	15
Nuanced assessment of livelihood resilience through the intersectional lens of gender and ethnicity: Evidence from small-scale farming communities in the upland regions of Vietnam	15
How sources of agriculture information shape the adoption of reduced tillage practices?	15
Supermarket and discounter accessibility in rural Germany– identifying food deserts using a GIS accessibility model	15
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms	15
Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming	15
Immigration and integration in rural areas and the agricultural sector: An EU perspective	15
The adoption of conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in southern Africa: A scoping review of barriers and enablers	15
Can a ‘good farmer’ be nature-inclusive? Shifting cultural norms in farming in The Netherlands	15
Antecedents and consequences of sustainable development in agriculture and the moderator role of the barriers: Proposal and test of a structural model	15
Analysis of dispersed farmers’ willingness to grow grain and main influential factors based on the structural equation model	15
Bridging social capital as a resource for rural revitalisation in China? A survey of community connection of university students with home villages	15
Rurality as context for innovative responses to social challenges – The role of rural social enterprises	15
Understanding diversity in farmers’ routinized crop protection practices	15
Anticipating farmer outcomes of three genetically modified staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from farming systems research	14
Planning to stay in the countryside: The insider-advantages of young adults from farm families	14
Theoretical and practical research into excavation slope protection for agricultural geographical engineering in the Loess Plateau: A case study of China's Yangjuangou catchment	14
Rethinking the place of agricultural land preservation for the development of food systems in planning of peri-urban areas: Insights from two French municipalities	14
Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada	14
The role of origin products and networking on agritourism performance: The case of Tuscany	14
Risky (farm) business: Perceptions of economic risk in farm succession and inheritance	14
Social innovation and community-focussed civic initiatives in the context of rural depopulation: For everybody by everybody? Project Ulrum 2034	14
Participatory assessment of critical thresholds for resilient and sustainable European farming systems	14
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China	14
Diverse values of urban-to-rural migration: A case study of Hokuto City, Japan	14
Developing a framework for radical and incremental social innovation in rural areas	14