Most recent papers:

• From Exclusion to Participation: Digital Competencies and Participatory Finance for Rural Women in Tunisia.
  Karima Bouzguenda, Mohamed Amin Bardaa.
  International Journal of Rural Management. yesterday
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  Financial inclusion of rural women entrepreneurs is conventionally related to gender issues; yet, it becomes more intriguing if we consider some explanatory factors, namely rurality, context and digital literacy. The present article aims at assessing the ...

  August 04, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261469799   open full text
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Rural Women in Agritourism Sector: An Exploratory Study of Rural Telangana, India.
  Sahera Fatima, Rajeev Sharma.
  International Journal of Rural Management. 6 days ago
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  Agritourism is an entrepreneurial model in the tourism sector that gives urban tourists firsthand experience of a farmer’s life. The urban tourists visit villages, stay at a farmer’s home, engage in farming activities, ride bullock carts and tractors, ...

  July 30, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261469788   open full text
• Gauging Natural Hazard Vulnerability and Its Determinants in Rural Coastal Areas: A Study in Coastal Districts of Odisha in India.
  Bikash Behera, Pragati Jain.
  International Journal of Rural Management. July 03, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  Climate change is expected to affect the coastal districts, increasing the risk to lives and livelihoods. Rural communities in the coastal belts of Odisha are predominantly impacted by natural hazards such as cyclones and floods, indicating a higher level ...

  July 03, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261459746   open full text
• Local Institution and Leadership Influence at the People-Protected Area Interface: A Case of Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, India.
  Manisha Ashraf, Srishti Badola, Sukanya Sharma.
  International Journal of Rural Management. June 05, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  This study examines how Village Defence Party, a community-based institution around Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, shapes conservation outcomes through institutional coherence and leadership practice. Drawing on Institutional Collective Action (ICA) theory and ...

  June 05, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261452507   open full text
• Women-led Farmer-Producer Companies in Rural India: Key Drivers of Agricultural Transformation and Market Linkages.
  Praveen Naik Bellampalli, Ashwini Pandhare.
  International Journal of Rural Management. May 27, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  The study examines how women farmer-producer companies support the social and economic circumstances of women farmers in rural Maharashtra. Women in the rural areas work together and make collective decisions with the help of farmer-producer companies. ...

  May 27, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261448956   open full text
• Capabilities, Markets and Digital Futures in Rural Transformation.
  Pratik Modi.
  International Journal of Rural Management. March 26, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 7-9, April 2026.
  

  March 26, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261435237   open full text
• Towards Effective Governance in Irrigation Management for Enhancing People’s Participation.
  Chandam Victoria Devi, Uzzal Mani Hazarika, Chandan Bhuyan, Bhaskar Jyoti Buragohain.
  International Journal of Rural Management. March 25, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  The nexus of water and food is complex and interdependent. Water is essential for agriculture, yet many states are failing to meet its increasing demand despite the creation of irrigation projects. There is a need to shift the paradigm from construction ...

  March 25, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261431917   open full text
• COVID-19 Lockdown and Challenges of Handloom Weavers: Evidence from Western Odisha.
  Premananda Meher, Suma Scaria.
  International Journal of Rural Management. March 25, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  The COVID-19 lockdown has disrupted the lives of millions of people worldwide. The present article studies handloom weavers’ challenges during the COVID-19-led lockdown period in Western Odisha. The study is based on primary data using 390 sample weaver ...

  March 25, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261433360   open full text
• Effects of Financial Inclusion on Household Expenditures: Evidence from Rural Vietnam.
  Nguyen Thi Hai Au, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hai, Truong Anh Tuan.
  International Journal of Rural Management. March 17, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Ahead of Print.
  Research on financial inclusion (FI) in Vietnam’s rural context is quite scarce, and some questions are still unanswered. In this study, we tried to look at how FI increased welfare, with particular attention to household expenditures. We used a sample of ...

  March 17, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261430985   open full text
• Farmers’ Perception of the Factors Affecting Paddy Price Stability in the Coochbehar District of West Bengal.
  Debapriya Banerjee, Soumitra Sarkar.
  International Journal of Rural Management. March 03, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 94-114, April 2026.
  India is an agrarian state where a large number of people depend on agriculture for their livelihood. The majority of Indian farmers cultivate paddy and suffer from a significant amount of loss every year due to the volatility in the prices of paddy. This ...

  March 03, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261426056   open full text
• Farmers’ Barriers to Digital Technologies Adoption in Rural Area: Empirical Evidence from Horticultural Farmers in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia.
  Alif Haidir Adana, Irham, Lestari Rahayu Waluyati, Arini Wahyu Utami.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 25, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 154-172, April 2026.
  Yogyakarta is recognised as the province with the highest digital literacy index in Indonesia. However, paradoxically, farmers in the region have not widely adopted digital technology. This situation indicates that there are barriers hindering the ...

  February 25, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261424641   open full text
• Transforming Farmer Institutes into Local Knowledge Hubs: Skills, Leadership and Inclusion for Sustainable Oil Palm Farming.
  Nurliza.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 24, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 10-28, April 2026.
  Indonesian smallholder oil palm farmers are found to face major issues, such as poor leadership, a lack of trust and trouble getting useful information through informal networks. The question is whether the skills of farmers to get along with each other ...

  February 24, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261423385   open full text
• Factors Influencing Farm Machinery Rental Service: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed-Method Study in an Agrarian State of India.
  Shaswata Hazarika, Mrinmoy K. Sarma.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 24, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 136-153, April 2026.
  This study seeks to determine the factors influencing the effectiveness of informal farm machinery rental services and also to assess these factors across the different sample districts of Assam. The study uses a sequential exploratory mixed-method ...

  February 24, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261420869   open full text
• Institutional Credit and Farm Technical Efficiency: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis.
  Showkat Ahmad Bhat, Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh, Ab Hamid Mir, Ishfaq Hamid.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 23, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 115-135, April 2026.
  This study examines the impact of access to formal credit on the technical efficiency of farms. The stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) is used to estimate technical efficiency by utilising primary survey data collected through a multi-stage random ...

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261423707   open full text
• Exploring the Skills of Women Microentrepreneurs in the Hilly Regions of North Bengal: An Empirical Study.
  Kriti Shakya, Gangotree Ghosh.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 20, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 29-50, April 2026.
  Women in the hilly regions often operate small ventures to support their livelihood, and the survival of these ventures profoundly depends on the skills possessed by the owners. Given the distinct set of challenges caused by geographical isolation and ...

  February 20, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261422803   open full text
• Digital Divide and Gender Disparities in Educational Technology Access Among Rural Tamil Nadu Households: A Multi-theoretical Analysis.
  Elamurugan Balasundaram, Gajendran A., Kannan A. S., Daniel Santhosh Raj, Krishna Sudheer A.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 10, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 51-73, April 2026.
  This mixed-method study investigated gender inequities in household access to educational technology among 378 rural Tamil Nadu households (443 children) from 12 districts, applying the capability approach, social reproduction theory and intersectionality ...

  February 10, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052261420528   open full text
• Farmers’ (Non-)satisfaction with the Sales of Farm Produce in India: Extent, Reasons and the Correlates.
  Rupon Basumatary, Sagartirtha Chakraborty, Himakshi Bharadwaj, Dhiman Jyoti Barua.
  International Journal of Rural Management. January 31, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 74-93, April 2026.
  While previous research focused on diverse aspects of agricultural marketing in India, limited studies have quantified farmers’ non-satisfaction across market channels and regions in the country. This study aims to bridge that gap by using nationally ...

  January 31, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052251415064   open full text
• Managing Sustainable Transitions in Agriculture: Beyond Productivity and Populism in India.
  C. Shambu Prasad, Richa Kumar.
  International Journal of Rural Management. January 10, 2026
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1_suppl, Page S7-S25, April 2026.
  This article situates Indian agriculture within the growing field of sustainability transitions, a literature that has largely neglected agriculture in the Global South. We argue that India’s Green Revolution model, characterised by high external inputs, ...

  January 10, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09730052251409524   open full text
• Reframing the Narrative on Natural Farming Yields and Income - Insights from a Baseline Survey in Madhya Pradesh, India.
  Siva Muthuprakash K. M., Amit Kumar Mishra, Kirti Ahirwar, Vinay Dabral, Piyuli Ghosh, Neha Bhadbhade, Sidharth Patil, Om Damani, Tarak Kate, Joy K. J., Mihir Shah.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 19, 2025
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1_suppl, Page S98-S117, April 2026.
  A comprehensive baseline survey of 1,776 farmers was conducted under a programme to scale up natural farming practices across 11 agro-ecological zones in Madhya Pradesh. This provided a unique opportunity to study farms at different stages of transition, ...

  February 19, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09730052241310930   open full text
• Masculine Tools and Feminine Tasks: The Dynamic Interplay of Gender and Technology Through System of Rice Intensification.
  Sabarmatee, C. Shambu Prasad, Harro Maat, Dominic Glover.
  International Journal of Rural Management. February 17, 2025
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1_suppl, Page S80-S97, April 2026.
  Are sustainable transitions in agriculture necessarily women-friendly, or can they also increase gender imbalance? The mutual shaping of gender relations and technologies is an area that has been inadequately studied by sustainability transition scholars. ...

  February 17, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09730052241312477   open full text
• Balancing Collaboration with Autonomy: Civil Society and Agroecology Movement in India.
  Kavitha Kuruganti, C Shambu Prasad, Kapil Shah.
  International Journal of Rural Management. December 16, 2024
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1_suppl, Page S61-S79, April 2026.
  Civil society has a critical role in bringing about the paradigm shift necessary for sustainability transitions in agriculture. It forms the backbone behind both scaling out and scaling up of these transitions. Its role as innovator, pioneer, campaigner, ...

  December 16, 2024   doi: 10.1177/09730052241301501   open full text
• Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) as Sustainable Transition Intermediaries: Insights from India.
  Pallavi G. L., Abhishek Saxena, Astad Pastakia, Sachin Oza.
  International Journal of Rural Management. November 20, 2024
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1_suppl, Page S43-S60, April 2026.
  The scholarship on sustainability transitions has surprisingly few studies on agriculture and food systems, especially from emerging economies such as India. The role of firms and businesses, especially cooperatives and producer organisations in agri-food ...

  November 20, 2024   doi: 10.1177/09730052241292979   open full text
• Reflections on Agroecology and Social Justice in Malwa-Nimar.
  Caroline E. Fazli.
  International Journal of Rural Management. November 04, 2024
  International Journal of Rural Management, Volume 22, Issue 1_suppl, Page S26-S42, April 2026.
  Recent literature has positioned agroecological transitions as a way of repairing the ‘metabolic and epistemic rift’ brought about by industrial agriculture. Deeper appreciation of the interconnectedness and interpenetration between humans and nature has ...

  November 04, 2024   doi: 10.1177/09730052241284708   open full text