OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peasant Studies is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	130
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya	95
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	86
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	85
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	53
Scholar activism and land struggles	41
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	41
Land rush	39
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	38
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	35
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	34
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia	33
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	33
Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm	30
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	29
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	28
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	28
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	27
The politics of transnational fishers' movements	26
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture	26
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance	25
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	24
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 Colo	23
The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism. Lessons From Bolivia	22
Household diversification and market dependence: understanding vulnerability in rural West Africa	22

Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation	22
Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland	22
Enacting democracy in a de facto state: coca, cocaine and campesino unions in the Chapare, Bolivia	22
Forest, agriculture, and migration: contemplating the future of forestry and agriculture in the middle-hills of Nepal	21
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	21
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority	20
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New	20
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist	20
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan	19
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	19
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	19
Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico	19
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside	19
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon	18
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD	18
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	17
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	17
A feminist methodology for implementing the right to food in agrarian communities: reflections from Cambodia and Ghana	17
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism	17
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	16
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	16
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	15
Correction	15
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	15
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique	14
The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops	14
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	14
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U	13
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place	13
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	13
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	13
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	13
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	13
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation	13
Performing property in Göllüce: land enclosures and commoning struggles in 1960s Turkey	12
The second contradiction of capitalism	12
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	12
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	12
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	11
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	11
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	11
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production	11
Gone with the Hazelnuts	10
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta	10
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	10
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom	10
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: tractors, accumulation and agrarian change	10
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	10
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	10
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 the	10

Global libidinal economy	10
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	9
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	9
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system	9
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture	9
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania	9
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	9
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 vulnerability	9
China and global food security	8
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	8
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	8
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	8
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	8
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice	8
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	8
Development, governmentality and the sedentary state: the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia’s Somali pastoral periphery	7
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	7
Accumulation by dispossession and African seeds: colonial institutions trump seed business law	7
I will follow? Authoritarian populism, past and present	7
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush	7
Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum	7
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition	7
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 Laur	7
Correction	7
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India	7
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war	7
Soil as a site of struggle: differentiated rifts under different modes of farming in intensive commercial agriculture in urbanizing China	7
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa	7
Food security and power struggle in the Chinese ‘battle of the beans’	7
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
‘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 world	7