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Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience of Sustainable Agriculture in the Context of Rural Economy Development

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 7872

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Barbara Wieliczko

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Guest Editor
1. European Rural Development Network, Milanówek, Poland
2. Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy Świat Str. 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: rural development; agricultural policy; evaluation of public policies; future studies; sustainability transition; food systems; circular economy; bioeconomy
Prof. Dr. William H Meyers

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Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Interests: agricultural trade; agricultural and rural policy; commodity market analysis; and transition economics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and unexpected events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the war in the Ukraine, harm the value chains, cause additional risks and create new vulnerabilities in agriculture and rural areas; therefore, strengthening the resilience of agricultural producers and rural communities is crucial to their well-being. There are numerous research projects aimed at exploring ways to support agriculture and rural communities in increasing their resilience capacity, as well as improving the sustainability of agriculture and other economic and non-economic activities conducted in rural areas. Despite this, there is little dialogue among rural and agricultural stakeholders; further, the knowledge is highly dispersed, and it is not clear which challenges faced by agriculture and rural communities have already been given solutions, and which are still in need of in-depth research.

We warmly encourage the submission of articles based on research related to identifying needs and possible solutions to the risks and vulnerabilities faced by agriculture and rural communities. We welcome manuscripts tackling, but not limited to, the following issues:

  • Green transition of rural areas.
  • Resilience of agriculture.
  • Risk mitigation pathways for agriculture.
  • Sustainable adaptation to climate change by agriculture.
  • Strengthening the resilience of rural communities facing aging and depopulation.
  • Recent changes in agricultural policy.
  • Recent trends in rural development policy.

Dr. Barbara Wieliczko
Prof. Dr. William H Meyers
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • risk management
  • climate adaptation
  • sustainable agriculture
  • resilience
  • rural areas
  • agricultural policy
  • green transition
  • rural communities
  • rural development policy
  • depopulation

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The Government–Farmer Cooperation Mechanism and Its Implementation Path to Realize the Goals of Optimizing Grain Planting Structure
by Gaofeng Ren and Xiao Cui
Land 2024, 13(3), 358; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030358 - 12 Mar 2024
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In order to alleviate the grain supply–demand structural contradictions and ensure the realization of grain planting structure optimization goals, it is necessary to clarify the interactive relationship between multiple entities, establish a cooperation mechanism, and explore its implementation paths. To this end, a [...] Read more.
In order to alleviate the grain supply–demand structural contradictions and ensure the realization of grain planting structure optimization goals, it is necessary to clarify the interactive relationship between multiple entities, establish a cooperation mechanism, and explore its implementation paths. To this end, a differential game model is built to compare and analyze the optimal strategies, optimal benefits, and overall system outcomes for both the government and farmers under three scenarios: the Nash non-cooperative game, the Stackelberg game, and the collaborative cooperation game. Then, key factors and their influencing mechanisms that affect the government–farmer cooperation mechanism are revealed. Finally, the csQCA model is used to explore the implementation paths for different stakeholders to ensure the sound operation of the cooperation mechanism. The results show the following: (1) The government–farmer cooperation mechanism should consist of an inner core system with the government–farmer interaction as the core and an outer system comprising the market environment, cooperation environment, and institutional environment. These two systems should coordinate with each other, respond to each other, and drive progress together. (2) The cooperation mechanism can optimize behavioral enthusiasm, resulting in individual and overall benefits for both the government and farmers. However, its scientific and orderly implementation is affected by factors such as the cost coefficient. Additionally, subsidies serve as a powerful policy tool to enhance farmers’ enthusiasm, thereby increasing the benefits for both parties and maximizing the effectiveness of the cooperation mechanism. (3) There are three implementation paths corresponding to large-scale farmers, rural elites, and small-scale farmers: being led by external policy tools, linkage guidance between decision-making environment and willing subjects, and factor allocation and environmentally driven decision-making. These findings can provide theoretical support and case reference for marginal farmland management and planting structure optimization management in underdeveloped areas. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience of Sustainable Agriculture in the Context of Rural Economy Development)
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Agricultural Land Market in Ukraine: Challenges of Trade Liberalization and Future Land Policy Reforms
by Shamil Ibatullin, Yosyp Dorosh, Oksana Sakal, Vitaliy Krupin, Roman Kharytonenko and Maria Bratinova
Land 2024, 13(3), 338; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030338 - 6 Mar 2024
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After over 20 years of a strict moratorium on the turnover of agricultural land in Ukraine, an official market for this type of land has recently been established. The purpose of this study was to examine the functioning of the fundamental elements of [...] Read more.
After over 20 years of a strict moratorium on the turnover of agricultural land in Ukraine, an official market for this type of land has recently been established. The purpose of this study was to examine the functioning of the fundamental elements of this market from the moment of its introduction on 1 July 2021 until today, as well as to understand the possible directions for its further development. The analysis of the agricultural land market and the visualization of the obtained results were carried out using the PostgreSQL database, Python and SQL programming languages, and the QGIS and Metabase tools. It was found that the volume of the agricultural land market remains insignificant, as the total area of sold land during this period made up only 0.7% of the arable land area of Ukraine. Prices for land plots remained at the level of their normative monetary value and are still relatively low, which indicates the significant undercapitalization of agricultural land as a production factor. The stability of agricultural land prices under the influence of various factors also indicates their relative virtuality, which, taking into account the further lifting of restrictions on the size of land plots to be sold as of 1 January 2024, requires the use of appropriate land policy instruments in order to fully utilize the multipurpose role of land in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, which should be based on a human-rights-based approach to rural development, food security, and land policy. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience of Sustainable Agriculture in the Context of Rural Economy Development)
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Protecting Poor Rural Households from Health Shocks: Poverty Alleviation Practices in Chongqing, China
by Qianqian Zhang, Tao Li, Xiongwei Tan and Jianzhong Yan
Land 2023, 12(5), 969; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12050969 - 26 Apr 2023
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In certain low- and middle-income countries, information asymmetry, human capital damage and long-term economic decline are longstanding problems in health-related poverty alleviation. Notably, China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation program sheds new light on resolving these problems. Based on existing paradigms in the poverty research [...] Read more.
In certain low- and middle-income countries, information asymmetry, human capital damage and long-term economic decline are longstanding problems in health-related poverty alleviation. Notably, China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation program sheds new light on resolving these problems. Based on existing paradigms in the poverty research area, the purpose of this paper is to summarize and explore the roles of Chinese support policies in poor rural households coping with health shocks. Using a questionnaire survey of 4635 poor rural households in a municipality in Southwest China conducted from December 2018 to January 2019, this study examines the relationships between health shocks, human capital, support policies, and per capita household income. The results show that (1) apart from safety nets and cargo nets, monitoring nets are formed in China’s poverty alleviation practice, which could resolve the problem of information asymmetry. (2) Health shocks do not cause poor rural households to fall back into poverty. The reason for this is that safety net and cargo net policies are provided to relevant poor rural households by considering household human capital endowments and the information received from cargo nets. Through this method, patients can obtain effective support and caregivers can obtain off-farm employment opportunities. Thus, the ability of poor rural household human capital to resist health shocks is enhanced. (3) With the support of these policies, the negative effects of dependent family members and agricultural laborers on per capita household income are reversed. Thus, the long-term increase in poor rural household income is also ensured. These findings hold great value for other developing countries coping with health shocks and formulating anti-poverty policies. Full article
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Toward Holistic Perceptions of “Smart” Growth in Development Paradigms and Policy Agendas
by Rita Lankauskienė and Živilė Gedminaitė-Raudonė
Land 2023, 12(2), 482; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020482 - 15 Feb 2023
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The examination of “smart” growth in various economic and societal development areas and contexts has spread around the globe, in both scientific and policy discourse, with a recent focus on transformations concerning “smart” green growth, “smart” regional development, and green transformation, including “smart” [...] Read more.
The examination of “smart” growth in various economic and societal development areas and contexts has spread around the globe, in both scientific and policy discourse, with a recent focus on transformations concerning “smart” green growth, “smart” regional development, and green transformation, including “smart” villages. However, until recently, much confusion has existed regarding different understandings of “smartness” for different communities in different contexts. The main aims of this research are to emphasize the proliferation of perceptions of the term “smart” in different contexts of growth and development paradigms and policy agendas and to illustrate the theoretical findings with a case study concerning Lithuanian perceptions of “smart” development of rural areas. We applied a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods in this study. The research results and the suggested policy recommendations propose that, currently, “smartness” is perceived more broadly than as a simple application of the word “smart”; i.e., it involves intelligent digital equipment or mechanisms in a particular setting. In the context of economic and political processes—at all levels, supranational, regional, and local—“smart” growth includes “green” growth, increasingly emphasizing the ambition to create holistic intelligent [eco]systems to provide better services—i.e., “smarter” and “greener” services—to the quality of life for human beings. Full article
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