​This volume documents how families, communities and some groups (single men, young 'scarce' women, parents) adapt and adjust to recent demographic shifts in China and India. It discusses how demographic change interacts with other processes of change, including changes with respect to economic development and globalization, gender, class, caste, families, migration and work. The chapters offer micro-level analyses contextualized in larger processes of change and push further existing understandings of the consequences of the demographic imbalance between men and women in China and/or...

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...