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: First edition
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking Rural Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource xxii (444 pages);; illustrations

This open access book is based on a multi-country collaborative research project focussing on Canada, China, India, and Indonesia.It responds directly and concretely to concerns about the generational sustainability of smallholder farming worldwide– reflected in the current UN Decade of Family Farming. Drawing on research that asks how (some) young people continue to pursue a (future) livelihood in farming, the book uses the life-course perspective and privileges voices of young farmers to show that movement away from farming such as time spent in education, migration and non-farm work does not exclude eventual farming futures.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of agrarian studies, anthropology, development studies, gender studies, human geography, rural sociology, and youth studies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Young People’s Pathways into Farming -- 2. “Passion Alone Is Not Suffcient”: WhatDo We Know About Young Farmersin Canada? -- 3. “Regenerating” Agriculture: Becominga Young Farmer in Manitoba, Canada -- 4. Impervious Odds and ComplicatedLegacies: Young People’s Pathways intoFarming in Ontario, Canada -- 5. Young Farmers and the Dynamicsof Agrarian Transition in China -- 6. Young Farmers’ Diffcultiesand Adaptations in Agriculture: A CaseStudy from a Mountainous Townin Sichuan Province, Southwest China -- 7. Young Farmers in a “Cucumber Village”:A Different Story of Family Farmingin Agricultural Specializationfrom Hebei Province -- 8. The Youth Dividend and AgriculturalRevival in India -- 9. Becoming/Being a Young Farmerin a Fast-Transitioning Region: The Caseof Tamil Nadu -- 10.“I Had to Bear This Burden”: YouthTranscending Constraints to BecomeFarmers in Madhya Pradesh, India -- 11. Youth and Agriculture in Indonesia -- 12. Young Farmers’ Access to Land:Gendered Pathways into and Outof Farming in Nigara and Langkap (WestManggarai, Indonesia) -- 13. The Long Road to Becoming a Farmerin Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia -- 14. Pluriactive and Plurilocal: YoungPeople’s Pathways Out of and intoFarming in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta,Indonesia -- 15. Conclusion: Youth Aspirations,Trajectories, and Farming Futures -- Correction to: Becoming A Young Farmer