Becoming A Young Farmer

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.

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.