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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology123
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture85
Scholar activism and land struggles84
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya81
A brief history of commercial capitalism51
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India40
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule38
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot38
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh38
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements34
Moving Crops and the Scales of History33
Land rush32
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh31
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile29
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia29
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia28
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China27
Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm27
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas26
Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation24
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture23
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions22
Enacting democracy in a de facto state: coca, cocaine and campesino unions in the Chapare, Bolivia21
Forest, agriculture, and migration: contemplating the future of forestry and agriculture in the middle-hills of Nepal21
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 Colo21
The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism. Lessons From Bolivia20
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts20
The politics of transnational fishers' movements20
Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland19
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority19
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance 19
Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico19
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan19
Household diversification and market dependence: understanding vulnerability in rural West Africa19
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist19
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New19
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests18
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present18
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside18
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD17
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms17
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon17
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism16
A feminist methodology for implementing the right to food in agrarian communities: reflections from Cambodia and Ghana15
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia15
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance15
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation15
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador15
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-1915
Correction14
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique13
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region13
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U13
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
The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops13
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India12
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society12
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation12
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement12
Performing property in Göllüce: land enclosures and commoning struggles in 1960s Turkey12
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production11
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin11
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle10
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space10
Gone with the Hazelnuts10
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon10
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone10
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
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India10
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom10
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland9
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view9
Global libidinal economy9
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania9
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: tractors, accumulation and agrarian change9
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions9
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan9
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
China and global food security8
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice8
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 vulnerability8
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar8
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan8
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture8
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change8
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa7
Soil as a site of struggle: differentiated rifts under different modes of farming in intensive commercial agriculture in urbanizing China7
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition7
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.7
I will follow? Authoritarian populism, past and present7
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today7
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
Development, governmentality and the sedentary state: the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia’s Somali pastoral periphery7
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
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography7
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China7
Accumulation by dispossession and African seeds: colonial institutions trump seed business law7
‘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
Correction7
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India6
Food security and power struggle in the Chinese ‘battle of the beans’6
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush6
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives6
Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum6
Nine tenths of the law: enduring dispossession in Indonesia5
The incumbent advantage: corporate power in agri-food tech5
Decolonizing African agriculture: food security, agroecology, and the need for radical transformation5
From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open source seed systems5
The legal geographies of Indigenous consultation and conservation law in Chile5
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
‘Enclosure with Chinese characteristics’: a Polanyian approach to the origins and limits of land commodification in China5
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South*5
Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal5
Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies5
Can states be decolonized? Indigenous peoples and radical constitutional reform in Bolivia5
Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal5
Iron will: global extractivism and mining resistance in Brazil and India5
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–20205
Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to aJPSForum4
Ecologies of contention: how more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics4
‘If there's no evidence, there's no victim’: undone science and political organisation in marginalising women as victims of DBCP in Nicaragua4
Lineages of the ‘labour question’: from ‘subaltern workers’ to ‘classes of labour’ in the Punjab canal colonies4
Between ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’: harvest theft in a peasant community4
Tractors, states, markets and agrarian change in Africa4
The last enclosure: smoke, fire and crisis on the Indonesian forest frontier4
Emancipatory agroecologies: social and political principles4
Who stands to gain? How Moldovans engage with policies promoting the migration-rural development nexus4
Land, gender and labor in antinarcotic policies: voluntary substitution of illegalized coca crops and gender inequalities in rural Colombia4
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods: contradictory gendered outcomes of land transactions in Ghana4
The struggle for land in coastal Ecuador during the PAIS alliance pink-tide governments: trapped in patronage, corruption, and violence4
Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective4
An elusive common4
Resilience and conflict: rethinking climate resilience through Indigenous territorial struggles4
Disturbed forests, fragmented memories: Jarai and other lives in the Cambodian highlands4
Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey4
Ecomodernity, decoloniality and environmental justice: Joan Martínez-Alier in conversation with Goutam Karmakar4
Necroeconomics: dispossession, extraction, and indispensable/expendable laborers in contemporary Myanmar4
The making of peasant subalternity in Portugal: histories of marginalisation and resistance to agrarian modernisation4
The evolution of China’s rural water governance: water, techno-political development and state legitimacy4
Anticipatory ruination4
Territorialized climate change adaptation analysis: lessons from the Central Valleys of Chile3
The agrochemical complex of China: historical, global and intersectoral connections3
Placing Cambodia’s agrarian transition in an emerging Chinese food regime3
Contested mangroves: land struggles and the gendered and racialized geographies of climate change3
Monocrops3
Global labor value chains, commodification, and the socioecological structure of severe exploitation. A case study of the Thai seafood sector3
The solutions are already here: tactics for ecological revolution from below3
Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics3
Our history is the future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance3
Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization , edited by R. Ramakuma3
The moral economy of labour and resistance to commoditisation in the Matagalpa highlands of Nicaragua3
Climate rentierism after coal: forests, carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields3
Social differentiation of the peasantry (Marxist)3
Development or dispossession? Exploring the consequences of a major Chinese investment in rural Cambodia3
Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands3
Women in agribusiness amid crises of social reproduction: the case of women workers at the Greenhouse, Turkey3
JPS at 50: some personal reminiscences3
Barons: money, power, and the corruption of the American food industry3
The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia3
Remaindered Life3
Placing land and food struggles in agriculture-industry power asymmetry: insights from Wanbao Village, Taiwan3
Violent farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa: landscape–livelihood interactions and the political ecology of customary dispute resolution3
Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?3
Keeping African women in social reproduction roles: a systematic qualitative review of literature on post-FTLRP Zimbabwe3
Rightless rurality: the illegalization of Myanmar migrant laborers in Thailand’s agro-industry3
Debt, reproductive labour and social reproduction in contracted palm oil production3
‘Who defends us?' Criollo livestock herders amidst commodity frontier expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco3
Social contagion and microbiological class war in China3
La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: alaudatio3
A political economy perspective on alternative development coalitions: the case of paramilitary territories in Colombia3
Landscapes of homesickness: mobilizing affect for rural return in Xi Jinping era, China2
Making soil in the Plantationocene2
Playing by the rules: formalisation in the agroecology sector during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Abolitionist visions: finance and freedom in the post-Civil War US South2
‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert2
Rural urbanisation and home gardening in southern Mexico: agrobiodiversity loss and alternative pathways2
Up in the air: the challenge of conceptualizing and crafting a post-carbon planetary politics to confront climate change2
Experience the world as a weak person2
The farm as digital factory: controlling labour and nature in digital agriculture2
Why are the farmers of Punjab protesting?2
Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together?2
Thinking within and beyond the plantation: the making of a waterscape in Costa Rica2
Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists2
Why and how is China reordering the food regime? The Brazil-China soy-meat complex and COFCO’s global strategy in the Southern Cone2
Governing after FARC: environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia2
Land grabbing on the edge of empire: the longue durée of fee-simple forest lands and indigenous resistance in British Columbia2
Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers’ experience of Fairtrade certification2
Food sovereignty and property in Cuba and the United States2
Valuing forests, but not the labor that protects them: international payments for ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon2
Tiny engines of abundance: a history of peasant productivity & repression2
Changing farmland distribution in China2
Hybrid hilltops: metabolism and the ecology of labor and capital in colonial central India2
‘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
Climate change as the last trigger in a long-lasting conflict: the production of vulnerability in northern Guinea-Bissau, West Africa2
Living standards and land – longitudinal village level perspectives from five African countries: broad based improvements amid rural differentiation2
Capitalism and the sea: the maritime factor in the making of the modern world2
Territory grabbing: agrarian perspectives on the unmaking and reclaiming of Palestinian sovereignty2
Between necessity and compulsion: opium poppy cultivation and the exigencies of survival in Badakhshan, Afghanistan2
Becoming a young farmer: young people's pathways into farming: Canada, China, India, and Indonesia2
Producing nature-based solutions: infrastructural nature and agrarian change in San Martín, Peru2
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