OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Agrarian Change is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Distilling agro‐extractivism: Agave and tequila production in Mexico	26
Glyphosate—A love story. Ordinary thoughtlessness and response‐ability in industrial farming	24
Experiments in farmers' collectives in Eastern India and Nepal: Process, benefits, and challenges	21
Twenty‐five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world	17
Politically directed accumulation in rural China: The making of the agrarian capitalist class and the new agrarian question of capital	15
Who owns the mud? Valuable leftovers, sociotechnical innovation and changing relations of production in artisanal gold mining (Burkina Faso)	14
Community‐based tourism, peasant agriculture and resilience in the face of COVID‐19 in Peru	14
Land and livelihood in the age of COVID‐19: Implications for indigenous food producers in Ecuador	14
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics	13
Peasant essentialism in GMO debates: Bt cotton in Burkina Faso	12
What kind of labour regime is contract farming? Contracting and sharecropping in Java compared	12
Surveillance agriculture and peasant autonomy	11
The end of the rural/urban divide? Migration, proletarianization, differentiation and peasant production in an ejido, Central Mexico	11
Capitalist agriculture, COVID‐19 and agrarian labour relations in Punjab, India	11
Autonomy and repeasantization: Conceptual, analytical, and methodological problems	10
The environmental, social and economic effects of recent technological changes in sugarcane on the State of São Paulo, Brazil	10
Cashing in or driving development? Cross‐border traders and maize contract farming in northeast Laos	10
Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines	10
Largely on their own: Dealing with the rural legacies of conflict through local participatory peacebuilding	9
Class formation and capital accumulation in the countryside: Artisanal and small‐scale gold mining in South Kivu, DR Congo	9
Autonomy as a politico‐economic concept: Peasant practices and nested markets	9
Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour	8
“Ploughing the land five times”: Opium and agrarian change in the ceasefire landscapes of south‐western Shan State, Myanmar	8
Rural China under the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differentiated impacts, rural–urban inequality and agro‐industrialization	8
Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia	8

Credit, land and survival work in rural Cambodia: Rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens	7
Resisting the coastal squeeze through village associations? Comparing environmental, organizational, and political challenges in Philippine seaweed‐growing communities	7
Fictitious commodification and agrarian change: Indigenous peoples and land markets in Highland Ecuador	7
Living under value chains: The new distributive contract and arguments about unequal bargaining power	7
Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa	7
Global agri‐food chains in times of COVID‐19: The state, agribusiness, and agroecology in Argentina	7
Crisis of capitalism and cycles of right‐wing populism in contemporary Turkey: The making and unmaking of Erdoğanist hegemony	6
Intermediary trading and the transformation of marketplaces in Papua New Guinea	6
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	6
Rethinking rural‐urban linkages: Villages and agribusiness in the Ecuadorian Highlands	6
Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North	6
BRICS varieties of capitalism and food regime reordering: A comparative institutional analysis	6
Soybean production in Paraguay: Agribusiness, economic change and agrarian transformations	6
Masters of the countryside and their enemies: Class dynamics of agrarian change in rural Java	6
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America	6
Ocean frontier assemblages: Critical insights from Canada's industrial salmon sector	5
Autonomy in agrarian studies, politics, and movements: An inter‐paradigm debate	5
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China	5
Filling the gap: Peasant Studies and the archaeology of medieval peasantry in light of the Northern Iberian evidence	5
Labour, mechanization, market integration, and government policy: Agrarian change and lowland rice cultivation in northeastern Thailand and southern Laos	5
Indebted by dispossession: The long‐term impacts of a Special Economic Zone on caste inequality in rural Telangana	5
When seed becomes capital: Commercialization of Bt cotton in Pakistan	5
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand	5
Patterns of accumulation and social differentiation through a slow‐paced agrarian market transition in post‐Soviet Uzbekistan	5
Rethinking the political economy of rural struggles in Turkey: Space, structures, and altered agencies	5
From neoliberalism to national developmentalism? Contested agrarian imaginaries of a postneoliberal future for food and farming	5
Behind the ‘creative destruction’ of human diets: An analysis of the structure and market dynamics of the ultra‐processed food manufacturing industry and implications for public health	5
Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue	5
Good debts, bad debts: Microcredit and managing debt in rural south India	5
Russian to modern world history: Teodor Shanin and peasant studies	4
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique	4
The fragmented politics of sugarcane contract farming in Uganda	4
Agricultural holdings with undefined boundaries, communal systems and counter‐hegemonies: The persistence of the peasantry in Argentina	4
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia	4
Chinese investment in the Brazilian soybean sector: Navigating relations of private governance	4
Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4
Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China	4
The relentless de facto privatization process of Chilika Lake, India	4
The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique	4
Beyond the Pampas: Global capital and uneven development in Argentine soybean expansion	4
Qualifying tradition: Instituted practices in the making of the organic wine market in Languedoc‐Roussillon, France	4
Producing industrial pigs in southwestern China: The rise of contract farming as a coevolutionary process	4
Land and contract farming: Changes in the distribution and meanings of land in Kilombero, Tanzania	4
Differentiated agrarian vulnerabilities and generalized national responses to COVID‐19 in the Upper West Region of Ghana	4
From survival to self‐governance: A comparison of two peasant autonomy struggles in Colombia's coffee and frontier regions	4