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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology180
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya128
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements110
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot75
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture66
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core65
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule48
Moving Crops and the Scales of History46
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India43
Scholar activism and land struggles43
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh39
Land rush38
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh37
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia36
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile33
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia32
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China32
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture30
The ‘return’ of land grabbing?28
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 Colo28
Extractivism across production and social reproduction: classes of labour in rural Turkey28
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance 28
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas28
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions26
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts26
The politics of transnational fishers' movements25
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New25
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority24
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia23
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist21
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan21
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside21
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present20
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism19
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests19
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon19
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD19
Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico19
Turnover time in the pandemic era: industrial poultry, avian influenza and capitalist strategies18
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador17
Correction16
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia16
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region16
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance16
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms15
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care: nomadic relationalities between the global pandemic and environmental risks15
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-1914
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place14
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation14
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique14
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India13
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society13
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement13
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions13
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U13
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production12
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space12
Global pesticide complex12
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation12
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture: entrepreneurial farming and the regional state in South India (Andhra Pradesh)12
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation12
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon11
Gone with the Hazelnuts10
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle10
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan10
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin10
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
The second contradiction of capitalism10
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta9
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system9
Global libidinal economy9
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
China and global food security9
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania9
Collective empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous peasant movements and political transformation9
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone9
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom9
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture9
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala9
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view9
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India9
Dispersed dispossession: collective goods, appropriation, and agency in rural Russia9
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions9
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan9
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland8
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China8
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar8
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change8
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa8
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice8
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today8
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 Laur8
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.7
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war7
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 security and power struggle in the Chinese ‘battle of the beans’7
‘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
Correction7
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition7
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction7
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives7
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush7
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography7
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India7
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico7
The legal geographies of Indigenous consultation and conservation law in Chile6
Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum6
Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal6
Iron will: global extractivism and mining resistance in Brazil and India6
Global value chains, food and just transition: a multi-scale approach to Brazilian soy value chains6
Agrarian transition in small open societies. The case of Caribbean economies6
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South*6
Nine tenths of the law: enduring dispossession in Indonesia6
From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open source seed systems6
‘Enclosure with Chinese characteristics’: a Polanyian approach to the origins and limits of land commodification in China6
Decolonizing African agriculture: food security, agroecology, and the need for radical transformation6
Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies6
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–20206
Can states be decolonized? Indigenous peoples and radical constitutional reform in Bolivia6
The incumbent advantage: corporate power in agri-food tech6
Changing what it means to work on the land: agroecology and agrarian change in Malawi6
Land and water grabs, militarized development and agrarian resistance in the Sahel5
Resilience and conflict: rethinking climate resilience through Indigenous territorial struggles5
Ecomodernity, decoloniality and environmental justice: Joan Martínez-Alier in conversation with Goutam Karmakar5
Lineages of the ‘labour question’: from ‘subaltern workers’ to ‘classes of labour’ in the Punjab canal colonies5
Who stands to gain? How Moldovans engage with policies promoting the migration-rural development nexus5
Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective5
Anticipatory ruination5
Ecologies of contention: how more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics5
The politics of land reform and peasant autonomy in Sri Lanka5
Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below5
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
Land, gender and labor in antinarcotic policies: voluntary substitution of illegalized coca crops and gender inequalities in rural Colombia5
Emancipatory agroecologies: social and political principles5
Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey5
Between ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’: harvest theft in a peasant community5
Pushing accountability boundaries for transnational land investments5
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods: contradictory gendered outcomes of land transactions in Ghana5
‘If there's no evidence, there's no victim’: undone science and political organisation in marginalising women as victims of DBCP in Nicaragua5
The struggle for land in coastal Ecuador during the PAIS alliance pink-tide governments: trapped in patronage, corruption, and violence5
Keeping African women in social reproduction roles: a systematic qualitative review of literature on post-FTLRP Zimbabwe4
Contested mangroves: land struggles and the gendered and racialized geographies of climate change4
Rightless rurality: the illegalization of Myanmar migrant laborers in Thailand’s agro-industry4
Social contagion and microbiological class war in China4
Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: how to eat and how to think4
‘Who defends us?' Criollo livestock herders amidst commodity frontier expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco4
The evolution of China’s rural water governance: water, techno-political development and state legitimacy4
Violent farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa: landscape–livelihood interactions and the political ecology of customary dispute resolution4
An elusive common4
Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands4
Social differentiation of the peasantry (Marxist)4
Debt, reproductive labour and social reproduction in contracted palm oil production4
Climate rentierism after coal: forests, carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields4
The agrochemical complex of China: historical, global and intersectoral connections4
The making of peasant subalternity in Portugal: histories of marginalisation and resistance to agrarian modernisation4
Monocrops4
Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?4
Development or dispossession? Exploring the consequences of a major Chinese investment in rural Cambodia4
Territorialized climate change adaptation analysis: lessons from the Central Valleys of Chile4
Women in agribusiness amid crises of social reproduction: the case of women workers at the Greenhouse, Turkey4
Remaindered Life4
A political economy perspective on alternative development coalitions: the case of paramilitary territories in Colombia3
The solutions are already here: tactics for ecological revolution from below3
Becoming a young farmer: young people's pathways into farming: Canada, China, India, and Indonesia3
Tiny engines of abundance: a history of peasant productivity & repression3
The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia3
‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert3
Territory grabbing: agrarian perspectives on the unmaking and reclaiming of Palestinian sovereignty3
Deepening the ecological agrarian question: how ecologies of production shape capital accumulation, subsumption and producer agency in the Thai Nam Hom Coconut Industry3
JPS at 50: some personal reminiscences3
Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization , edited by R. Ramakuma3
Between necessity and compulsion: opium poppy cultivation and the exigencies of survival in Badakhshan, Afghanistan3
Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics3
Land grabbing on the edge of empire: the longue durée of fee-simple forest lands and indigenous resistance in British Columbia3
Producing nature-based solutions: infrastructural nature and agrarian change in San Martín, Peru3
La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: alaudatio3
From denouncing dry streams to a river of resistance: the role of law in contesting hydropower in the La Miel River, Colombia3
Barons: money, power, and the corruption of the American food industry3
The farm as digital factory: controlling labour and nature in digital agriculture3
Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together?3
Valuing forests, but not the labor that protects them: international payments for ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon3
Dispossession by archive: contemporary land grabbing through colonial land deeds in Indonesia2
‘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
Land, labor and war in the Amazon: mechanisms behind peasant-led deforestation2
Food sovereignty and displacement: gardening for food, mental health, and community connection2
Seven reasons why climate-induced land grabbing requires significant changes in land governance2
Do laws provoke or prevent green grabbing? A systematic review2
Why and how is China reordering the food regime? The Brazil-China soy-meat complex and COFCO’s global strategy in the Southern Cone2
Living standards and land – longitudinal village level perspectives from five African countries: broad based improvements amid rural differentiation2
Abolitionist visions: finance and freedom in the post-Civil War US South2
The great conservation tragedy? A critical reflection of (neo)protectionism in relation to the ‘30 × 30’ global biodiversity framework2
Climate change as the last trigger in a long-lasting conflict: the production of vulnerability in northern Guinea-Bissau, West Africa2
Sweet deal, bitter landscape: gender politics and liminality in Tanzania’s new enclosures2
Playing by the rules: formalisation in the agroecology sector during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and critical agrarian studies2
Making soil in the Plantationocene2
Changing farmland distribution in China2
Rural urbanisation and home gardening in southern Mexico: agrobiodiversity loss and alternative pathways2
Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers’ experience of Fairtrade certification2
Experience the world as a weak person2
Governing after FARC: environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia2
Hybrid hilltops: metabolism and the ecology of labor and capital in colonial central India2
Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives2
Thinking within and beyond the plantation: the making of a waterscape in Costa Rica2
Landscapes of homesickness: mobilizing affect for rural return in Xi Jinping era, China2
Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists2
Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements2
Up in the air: the challenge of conceptualizing and crafting a post-carbon planetary politics to confront climate change2
Sugar, the plantation, and the state in Tanzania2
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