Promoting Green Rural Transformation – Strategies, Pathways and Policies
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Agricultural Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Development Economics, New Structural Economics, Applied Econometrics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: Political Sciences, Human Society, Development Studies, Economic Geography, Chinese Studies
Special Issue Information
Rural development in many developing countries stands at a pivotal crossroads. It is imperative to prioritize poverty alleviation, income generation, the creation of high-quality employment opportunities as well as to ensure food security. Simultaneously, addressing challenges such as excessive water usage, land degradation, climate change, pollution, environmentally harmful agricultural practices, and deforestation is crucial. Furthermore, such a transformation requires an economic, environmental, and societal transition toward greater justice and inclusiveness. Policymakers must tackle these multiple goals synchronously in a coordinated effort, necessitating an innovative combined solution for policy facilitation, institutional reform, investment frameworks, and market design.
This situation calls for a new research agenda addressing feasible strategies, actionable interventions, and better policy design to promote a ‘Green Rural Transformation’. This Special Issue aims to compile cutting-edge theories, the latest evidence, and insightful discussions from researchers, policymakers, policy practitioners, and private sector stakeholders on how to aid international organizations and the governments of developing countries in facilitating and navigating a rural transformation into next phrase of environmental sustainability.
The editorial team welcomes both qualitative and quantitative contributions from all over the world. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of research:
- Rural development and economic structural change;
- The role of trade and service economy;
- New agribusiness model, market creation, and design;
- Application of new structural economics;
- Inclusiveness issues such as gender, justice, and inequality;
- The role of institutional reform and policy facilitation;
- The role of technology and investment;
- Public–private partnerships (PPPs) in promoting green rural transformation;
- Driving forces and socio-economic and environmental consequences of green rural transformation;
- Transformation pathways, stages, and strategic design;
- The factors of green rural transformation at the international, national, and subnational levels.
Dr. Dong Wang
Prof. Dr. Mark Yaolin Wang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- rural transformation
- structural change
- economic development
- sustainability
- agribusiness
- policy design
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