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.

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.

Focusses on youth who are aspiring to be farmers, instead of why youth leave the countryside Uses a life-course approach to understand the experiences of young farmers First systematic research collection focused on farmers in Asia, in 3 countries with the largest youth population This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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