Becoming A Young Farmer: Young People’s Pathways Into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia

ISBN-13: 9783031152320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Sharada Srinivasan

Opis

The book is based on the multi-country collaborative research project Becoming a Young Farmer: Young People’s Pathways into Farming in Four Countries (2017-2021). The four countries are: 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. Most current research and literature center on why young people leave farming. The book draws on research that instead asks: “Given the constraints they face, how do (some) young people continue to pursue a (future) livelihood in farming?’ The book uses the life-course perspective and privileges voices of young women and men farmers to show that movement away from farming such as time spent in education, migration and non-farm work do not exclude eventual farming futures. Analysing young people’s diverse pathways of becoming a farmer illuminates the constraints they face, and their efforts to overcome them. The future shape of rural communities, and of the world’s agriculture, will depend to a large extent on these and future generations of young people, their interest in and ability to acquire the needed resources for farming careers and livelihoods.This is an open access book.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: Young people’s pathways into farming, Sharada Srinivasan, Ben White

Chapter 2 "Passion alone is not sufficient”: What do we know about young farmers in Canada?, Joshua Nasielski, Sharada Srinivasan, Travis Jansen, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

Chapter 3 “Regenerating” agriculture: Becoming a young farmer in Manitoba, Canada, Hannah Jess Bihun, Annette Aurélie Desmarais

Chapter 4 Impervious odds and complicated legacies: Young people’s pathways into farming in Ontario, Canada Becoming a young farmer, Ontario, Travis Jansen, Sharada Srinivasan, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

Chapter 5 Young farmers and the dynamics of agrarian transition in China, Lu Pan

Chapter 6 Young farmers’ difficulties and adaptations in agriculture: A case study from a mountainous town in Sichuan province, Southwest China, Dong Liang, Lu Pan

Chapter 7 Young farmers in a ‘cucumber village’: A different story of family farming in agricultural specialization from Hebei province, Lu Pan

Chapter 8 The youth dividend and agricultural revival in India, Sudha Narayanan, M. Vijayabaskar, Sharada Srinivasan

Chapter 9 Becoming/being a young farmer in a fast-transitioning region: The case of Tamil Nadu, M. Vijayabaskar, Radha Varadarajan

Chapter 10 "I had to bear this burden”: Youth transcending constraints to become farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India, Sudha Narayanan

Chapter 11 Youth and agriculture in Indonesia, Aprilia Ambarwati, Charina Chazali, Isono Sadoko, Ben White

Chapter 12 Young farmers’ access to land: Gendered pathways into and out of farming in Nigara and Langkap, West Manggarai, Indonesia, Charina Chazali, Aprilia Ambarwati, Roy Huijsmans, Ben White

Chapter 13 The long road to becoming a farmer in Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia, Aprilia Ambarwati, Charina Chazali

Chapter 14 Pluriactive and plurilocal: Young people’s pathways out of and into farming in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Ben White, Hanny Wijaya

Chapter 15 Conclusion: Youth aspirations, trajectories, and farming futures, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Roy Huijsmans.

O autorze

Sharada Srinivasan is Associate Professor of Development Studies and Canada Research Chair in Gender, Justice and Development at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is the Principal Investigator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded research project from which this edited collection has been developed.

Blurb

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.

Sharada Srinivasan is Associate Professor of Development Studies and Canada Research Chair in Gender, Justice and Development at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is the Principal Investigator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded research project from which this edited collection has been developed.