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.