Becoming a Young Farmer : : Young People's Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia.

• Superior document: Rethinking Rural Series
• Author: Srinivasan, Sharada.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking Rural Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Young People's Pathways into Farming -- Who Wants to Be a Farmer? -- Our Approach, Guiding Concepts, and Methods -- Guiding Concepts -- Our Methods -- Organization of This Book -- Findings -- References -- 2: "Passion Alone Is Not Sufficient": What Do We Know About Young Farmers in Canada? -- Introduction -- Farmers and Farm Operators -- Young Farmer -- Newcomer and Returning Farmers -- Canada's Agrarian Context -- The Constraints to Becoming a Young Farmer -- Aspirations -- Education and Training -- Land -- Farm Succession -- Financial Viability -- Creating Social Networks -- Being a Young Farmer -- Newcomer Farmers: Farming as a Political Act -- Returning Farmers: Farming as a Way of Life -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 3: "Regenerating" Agriculture: Becoming a Young Farmer in Manitoba, Canada -- Situating the Research -- Methods and Research Participants -- Research Findings-What Did Farmers Tell Us? -- Young Farmer Pathways into Farming -- What Motivates Young Farmers to Farm? -- Barriers to Farming -- Access to Farmland -- Access to Credit and Financial Management -- Government Regulations and Policies -- Social Isolation -- Succession -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Impervious Odds and Complicated Legacies: Young People's Pathways into Farming in Ontario, Canada -- Introduction -- Ontario's Agrarian Context -- Who Are the Young Farmers? -- Becoming a Young Farmer -- Becoming a Returning Farmer -- Becoming a "New" Farmer -- Between Returning and New -- Conclusion -- List of Primary Sources (not actual names) -- References -- 5: Young Farmers and the Dynamics of Agrarian Transition in China -- Introduction -- Development of Chinese Agriculture.

Contemporary Achievements of Chinese Agriculture -- Transition Towards Modern Agriculture -- Accelerated Farmland Transfer -- Emergence of New Entities in Agricultural Operation -- Rural Youth: Hovering Between Rural and Urban -- Educational Constraints for Social Mobility -- Rural Labour Migration and New Generation of Migrants -- Split Family Reproduction for the Young Generation -- Demographic Challenge of Agricultural Labour: Positioning the Youth in Farming -- Debate on Grey Agriculture and Feminization of Agriculture -- Children's Involvement in Agriculture -- Cultivating Young Farmers -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Young Farmers' Difficulties and Adaptations in Agriculture: A Case Study from a Mountainous Town in Sichuan Province, Southwest China -- Introduction -- Community Profile -- Young Farmers' Pathways into Farming: Why Would They Stay or Return? -- Reasons for Staying -- Reasons for Returning -- Meaningless Working Life and Lack of Dignity -- Encouragement from Entrepreneurship -- Young Farmers' Difficulties in Farming -- Difficulties in Market -- Structural Risks of the Market: Planting Is Like Gambling -- Lack of Risk Avoidance: The Marginalization of Farmers -- The Last Obstacle to the Market: Lack of Bargaining Power -- Lack of Organization -- Difficulties with Cooperative Organizations -- Difficulties in Service Organization -- Young Farmers' Innovations in Sustaining Rural Livelihoods -- Broadening Agriculture-Based Multiple Job Holdings -- Young Farmers' Embedded Entrepreneurship and Its Socioeconomic Impacts -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Young Farmers in a "Cucumber Village": A Different Story of Family Farming in Agricultural Specialization from Hebei Province -- Introduction -- Community Profile of the "Cucumber Village" -- Becoming a Young Farmer -- Entering into Farming: Gender Differentiated Self-Choices.

Household Split: Establishment of New Farming Households for Young People -- Acquirement of Knowledge and Skills: Active Learning Through Limited Ways -- Labour Division for Young Farmers: "Man Outside and Woman Inside" in the Production Sphere -- Community-Based Agrarian Transition and Its Implications for Young Farmers -- Land Transfer: Breaking Through Household Limits for Young People -- Agricultural Programmes on Finance and Technology -- Providing Public Goods: Development of the Local Market -- Agency and Challenges for Young Farmers -- Young Farmers' Perceptions of Farming -- Young Farmers' Differentiation in Production -- Large Holder: Zhai Jizhong -- Small Holders: Wu Xiaoen -- Small Holder: Yan Liang -- Challenges for Young Farmers -- Conclusion -- 8: The Youth Dividend and Agricultural Revival in India -- Introduction -- Socio-Demographic Profile of Farmers in India -- Staying in, Exiting, and Entering Agriculture: A Review of Evidence -- Structural and Policy Issues Within Agriculture -- Unviable Size of Holdings -- Rural Land Markets and Land Use -- Diversification Sans Mobility? -- What Next for Young Farmers? -- Empirical Study of Young Farmers -- Tamil Nadu -- Madhya Pradesh -- References -- 9: Becoming/Being a Young Farmer in a Fast-Transitioning Region: The Case of Tamil Nadu -- Introduction -- Data Collection -- Pathways into Farming -- Crisis of Agrarian Masculinities -- Access to Land -- Accessing Land -- Titling, Access, and Decision-Making -- Support Networks -- Learning to Farm -- Critical Resources for Being a Young Farmer -- The Non-farm and the Young Farmer -- The Family Farm's Future -- Young Farmers in Policy and Politics -- References -- 10: "I Had to Bear This Burden": Youth Transcending Constraints to Become Farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India -- Introduction -- Becoming a Farmer -- Entry into Farming.

Generational Shifts and Succession -- Doing Things Differently -- Barriers Faced by Young Farmers -- "Farmers Cannot Buy Land" -- Land Quality and Water Availability -- The Imperative of Secondary Occupations -- Migration and City Life -- Support for Young Farmers -- The Future of Young Farmers and Young Farmers in the Future -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 11: Youth and Agriculture in Indonesia -- General Background -- Agrarian Structure -- Who Owns What? -- Who Gets What in Indonesian Agriculture? -- Young People and Agriculture -- Age and Gender of "Primary Farmers" -- Modes of Intergenerational Transfer of Farm Land and Property -- Young People: Turning Away from Farming? -- Patterns of Rural Youth Labour Mobility -- Education and Pathways into/out of Farming -- New Types and Styles of Farming -- Institutions and Initiatives Channelling Rural Youth Interests -- Young People and Farming in Indonesia: Concluding Reflections -- Methodology and Introduction to the Five Sample Villages -- Sidosari, Pudak Mekar, and Kaliloro (Java) -- Langkap and Nigara (Western Manggarai, Flores) -- Sample Selection and Interview Methods -- References -- 12: Young Farmers' Access to Land: Gendered Pathways into and Out of Farming in Nigara and Langkap (West Manggarai, Indonesia) -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Who Are the Young Farmers? -- Profile of the Fieldwork Sites -- Gendered Pathways into and Out of Farming -- Access to Land -- Lack of Government Support -- Farming Practices and Dependence on Debt -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- 13: The Long Road to Becoming a Farmer in Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia -- Introduction -- Research Context and Methodology -- Local Context and Agrarian Structure -- Young People's Pathways into Farming -- Farming Experience in Childhood -- Access to Farm Land -- Migration and Pluriactivity.

Innovation: Different Ways of Farming, New Sources of Information -- Lack of Support for Young Farmers -- Conclusion -- References -- 14: Pluriactive and Plurilocal: Young People's Pathways Out of and into Farming in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- Kaliloro in the Early 1970s -- Land Ownership and Access -- Changing Village Economy and Livelihoods, 1973-2017 -- Occupations and Pluriactivity -- Changing Lives of Young People -- The Prolongation of Childhood and the Emergence of Youth -- Pathways Out of and into Farming: Becoming a Young Farmer -- Collective Farming for Youth: The Karang Taruna Project -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- 15: Conclusion: Youth Aspirations, Trajectories, and Farming Futures -- Farming, the Demographic Challenge, and Justifying Case Selection -- Findings from the Case Studies -- Pathways, Generation, and Innovation -- Land, Money, and Markets -- Commonalities and Contrasts in the Case Studies -- References -- Correction to: Becoming A Young Farmer -- Correction to: -- Author Index -- Subject Index.