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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	142
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya	102
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	94
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	90
Land rush	57
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	50
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	48
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	43
Scholar activism and land struggles	43
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	40
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	37
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	36
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core	36
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia	34
Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm	31
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	30
The politics of transnational fishers' movements	28
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	28
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	28
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance	26
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	25
Forest, agriculture, and migration: contemplating the future of forestry and agriculture in the middle-hills of Nepal	25
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	25
The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism. Lessons From Bolivia	25
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture	25

Household diversification and market dependence: understanding vulnerability in rural West Africa	24
Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland	24
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	23
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New	23
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	23
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist	21
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority	21
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan	20
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	20
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	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
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD	18
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	18
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon	18
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
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	17
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	16
Correction	16
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	16
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	14
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
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	14
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	14
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	14
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	13
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place	13
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	13
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	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
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U	12
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	12
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	12
The second contradiction of capitalism	11
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	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
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta	11
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	11
Global libidinal economy	10
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	10
Gone with the Hazelnuts	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
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	10
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	10
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	9
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania	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
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	9
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	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
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom	9
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	8
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala	8
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	8
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	8
China and global food security	8
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	8
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	8
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war	7
Development, governmentality and the sedentary state: the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia’s Somali pastoral periphery	7
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa	7
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives	7
Correction	7
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	7
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush	7
I will follow? Authoritarian populism, past and present	7
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 justice	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
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction	7
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 India	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
Accumulation by dispossession and African seeds: colonial institutions trump seed business law	7
Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum	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