Journal of Peasant Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Peasant Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology142
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya102
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh94
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements90
Land rush57
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule50
Moving Crops and the Scales of History48
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot43
Scholar activism and land struggles43
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture40
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India37
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core36
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh36
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia34
Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm31
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China30
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile28
The politics of transnational fishers' movements28
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia28
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance 26
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions25
The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism. Lessons From Bolivia25
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture25
At the margins of the global market: making commodities, workers, and crisis in rural Colombia At the margins of the global market: making commodities, workers, and crisis in rural Colo25
Forest, agriculture, and migration: contemplating the future of forestry and agriculture in the middle-hills of Nepal25
Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland24
Household diversification and market dependence: understanding vulnerability in rural West Africa24
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New23
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas23
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts23
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist21
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority21
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests20
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan20
Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico19
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside19
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present19
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-1918
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon18
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD18
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism17
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation17
A feminist methodology for implementing the right to food in agrarian communities: reflections from Cambodia and Ghana17
Correction16
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador16
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region16
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India14
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance14
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms14
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia14
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique14
The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops14
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement13
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation13
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation13
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions13
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place13
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin12
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society12
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U12
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle11
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production11
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta11
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space11
The second contradiction of capitalism11
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon11
Gone with the Hazelnuts10
We Rise for Our Land We Rise for Our Land , Directed by Kurt Otabenga Orderson, South Africa/colour/48 min/English. Boaventura Monjane, Azania Rizing Productions and the10
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan10
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India10
Global libidinal economy10
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone10
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture9
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland9
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view9
Examining land rental markets’ linkages to land and water control in Colombia’s irrigation megaprojects: integrating the political economy of agrarian change and the political ecology of vulnerability9
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom9
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar9
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania9
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system9
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions8
China and global food security8
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China8
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change8
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today8
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala8
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan8
I will follow? Authoritarian populism, past and present7
Food security and power struggle in the Chinese ‘battle of the beans’7
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice7
‘Our struggle is for humanity’: a conversation with Morgan Ody, general coordinator of La Via Campesina International, on land, politics, peasant life and a vision for hope in our changing world7
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction7
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.7
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India7
Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and its Governance in Africa Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and its Governance in Africa , by Laur7
Accumulation by dispossession and African seeds: colonial institutions trump seed business law7
Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum7
A missing link in the agrarian question: the role of ground-rent and landed property in capital accumulation. The case of Argentina (1993-2019)7
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war7
Development, governmentality and the sedentary state: the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia’s Somali pastoral periphery7
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa7
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography7
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives7
Correction7
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush7
‘Enclosure with Chinese characteristics’: a Polanyian approach to the origins and limits of land commodification in China6
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–20206
Iron will: global extractivism and mining resistance in Brazil and India6
Can states be decolonized? Indigenous peoples and radical constitutional reform in Bolivia6
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition6
The legal geographies of Indigenous consultation and conservation law in Chile6
Agrarian transition in small open societies. The case of Caribbean economies6
Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies6
Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal6
Nine tenths of the law: enduring dispossession in Indonesia6
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico6
Who stands to gain? How Moldovans engage with policies promoting the migration-rural development nexus5
Global value chains, food and just transition: a multi-scale approach to Brazilian soy value chains5
Implementing the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests from the working with people model: lessons from Colombia and Guatemala5
Ecomodernity, decoloniality and environmental justice: Joan Martínez-Alier in conversation with Goutam Karmakar5
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods: contradictory gendered outcomes of land transactions in Ghana5
Ecologies of contention: how more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics5
The struggle for land in coastal Ecuador during the PAIS alliance pink-tide governments: trapped in patronage, corruption, and violence5
Land, gender and labor in antinarcotic policies: voluntary substitution of illegalized coca crops and gender inequalities in rural Colombia5
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South*5
Decolonizing African agriculture: food security, agroecology, and the need for radical transformation5
Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below5
Pushing accountability boundaries for transnational land investments5
Disturbed forests, fragmented memories: Jarai and other lives in the Cambodian highlands5
Changing what it means to work on the land: agroecology and agrarian change in Malawi5
The incumbent advantage: corporate power in agri-food tech5
From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open source seed systems5
‘If there's no evidence, there's no victim’: undone science and political organisation in marginalising women as victims of DBCP in Nicaragua5
Lineages of the ‘labour question’: from ‘subaltern workers’ to ‘classes of labour’ in the Punjab canal colonies5
Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to aJPSForum5
Contested mangroves: land struggles and the gendered and racialized geographies of climate change4
The making of peasant subalternity in Portugal: histories of marginalisation and resistance to agrarian modernisation4
‘Who defends us?' Criollo livestock herders amidst commodity frontier expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco4
Territorialized climate change adaptation analysis: lessons from the Central Valleys of Chile4
Rightless rurality: the illegalization of Myanmar migrant laborers in Thailand’s agro-industry4
Social contagion and microbiological class war in China4
Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands4
Violent farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa: landscape–livelihood interactions and the political ecology of customary dispute resolution4
Resilience and conflict: rethinking climate resilience through Indigenous territorial struggles4
Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey4
Monocrops4
Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: how to eat and how to think4
Climate rentierism after coal: forests, carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields4
Development or dispossession? Exploring the consequences of a major Chinese investment in rural Cambodia4
Keeping African women in social reproduction roles: a systematic qualitative review of literature on post-FTLRP Zimbabwe4
The evolution of China’s rural water governance: water, techno-political development and state legitimacy4
Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective4
Between ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’: harvest theft in a peasant community4
Social differentiation of the peasantry (Marxist)4
The agrochemical complex of China: historical, global and intersectoral connections4
The moral economy of labour and resistance to commoditisation in the Matagalpa highlands of Nicaragua4
Debt, reproductive labour and social reproduction in contracted palm oil production4
Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?4
An elusive common4
Emancipatory agroecologies: social and political principles4
Anticipatory ruination4
A political economy perspective on alternative development coalitions: the case of paramilitary territories in Colombia3
La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: alaudatio3
Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization , edited by R. Ramakuma3
Becoming a young farmer: young people's pathways into farming: Canada, China, India, and Indonesia3
Between necessity and compulsion: opium poppy cultivation and the exigencies of survival in Badakhshan, Afghanistan3
Changing farmland distribution in China3
JPS at 50: some personal reminiscences3
Our history is the future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance3
Barons: money, power, and the corruption of the American food industry3
Remaindered Life3
Women in agribusiness amid crises of social reproduction: the case of women workers at the Greenhouse, Turkey3
The solutions are already here: tactics for ecological revolution from below3
The farm as digital factory: controlling labour and nature in digital agriculture3
Territory grabbing: agrarian perspectives on the unmaking and reclaiming of Palestinian sovereignty3
Land grabbing on the edge of empire: the longue durée of fee-simple forest lands and indigenous resistance in British Columbia3
Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics3
The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia3
Deepening the ecological agrarian question: how ecologies of production shape capital accumulation, subsumption and producer agency in the Thai Nam Hom Coconut Industry3
Valuing forests, but not the labor that protects them: international payments for ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon3
Tiny engines of abundance: a history of peasant productivity & repression3
Producing nature-based solutions: infrastructural nature and agrarian change in San Martín, Peru3
Abolitionist visions: finance and freedom in the post-Civil War US South3
Governing after FARC: environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia2
Capitalism and the sea: the maritime factor in the making of the modern world2
Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together?2
Dispossession by archive: contemporary land grabbing through colonial land deeds in Indonesia2
Rural urbanisation and home gardening in southern Mexico: agrobiodiversity loss and alternative pathways2
Making soil in the Plantationocene2
Thinking within and beyond the plantation: the making of a waterscape in Costa Rica2
Sugar, the plantation, and the state in Tanzania2
Up in the air: the challenge of conceptualizing and crafting a post-carbon planetary politics to confront climate change2
Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers’ experience of Fairtrade certification2
Why are the farmers of Punjab protesting?2
Climate change as the last trigger in a long-lasting conflict: the production of vulnerability in northern Guinea-Bissau, West Africa2
Playing by the rules: formalisation in the agroecology sector during the COVID-19 pandemic2
The great conservation tragedy? A critical reflection of (neo)protectionism in relation to the ‘30 × 30’ global biodiversity framework2
Why and how is China reordering the food regime? The Brazil-China soy-meat complex and COFCO’s global strategy in the Southern Cone2
‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert2
Experience the world as a weak person2
Living standards and land – longitudinal village level perspectives from five African countries: broad based improvements amid rural differentiation2
‘The food sovereignty movement is not part of my life, it is my life’: from local to international, reflecting on Korean women peasant organizing – a conversation2
Hybrid hilltops: metabolism and the ecology of labor and capital in colonial central India2
Landscapes of homesickness: mobilizing affect for rural return in Xi Jinping era, China2
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