OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peasant Studies is 8. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order	238
From extractivism to global extractivism: the evolution of an organizing concept	84
Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to aJPSForum	61
Pastoralists and peasants: perspectives on agrarian change	58
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system	52
What grows from a pandemic? Toward an abolitionist agroecology	50
Generic, growing, green?: The changing political economy of the global pesticide complex	49
‘Murderous energy’ in Oaxaca, Mexico: wind factories, territorial struggle and social warfare	48
Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice	48
Thresholds of resistance: agroecology, resilience and the agrarian question	33
Dispossession by financialization: the end(s) of rurality in the making of a speculative land market	31
Rural land dispossession in China and India	30
Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives	30
Crisis politics and US farm labor: health justice and Florida farmworkers amid a pandemic	25
Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation	24
Climate justice	24
The ties that bind? Agroecology and the agrarian question in the twenty-first century	24
A climate-smart world and the rise of Green Extractivism	23
Placing Cambodia’s agrarian transition in an emerging Chinese food regime	21
Ruptures in the agroecological transitions: institutional change and policy dismantling in Brazil	20
Power for the Plantationocene: solar parks as the colonial form of an energy plantation	20
Why are the farmers of Punjab protesting?	20
‘We are the oceans, we are the people!’: fisher people’s struggles for blue justice	20
Peasant protests over land seizures in rural China	19
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and critical agrarian studies	19

‘Neither war nor peace’: failed ceasefires and dispossession in Myanmar’s ethnic borderlands	19
Is there a future for indigenous and local knowledge?	18
Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum	18
Commons, co-ops, and corporations: assembling Indonesia’s twenty-first century land reform	18
Class, caste and agrarian change: the making of farmers’ protests	18
Twenty-five years under the wind turbines in La Venta, Mexico: social difference, land control and agrarian change	18
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	18
Heroes of the developing world? Emerging powers in WTO agriculture negotiations and dispute settlement	18
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	18
The farm laws struggle 2020–2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India	17
A green new deal for agriculture: for, within, or against capitalism?	17
From resolving land disputes to agrarian justice – dealing with the structural crisis of plantation agriculture in eastern DR Congo	17
COVID-19 and pastoralism: reflections from three continents	17
Coalitions for land grabbing in wartime: state, paramilitaries and elites in Colombia	16
Sugarcoating the bitter pill: compensation, land governance, and opposition to land expropriation in China	16
Do women like to farm? Evidence of growing burdens of farming on women in rural India	16
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation: what implications for the food security of Ghana’s smallholder farmers?	16
Emancipatory agroecologies: social and political principles	16
No cash, no food. Gendered reorganization of livelihoods and food security in Cambodia	15
Global labor value chains, commodification, and the socioecological structure of severe exploitation. A case study of the Thai seafood sector	15
Catastrophic and slow violence: thinking about the impacts of the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam in southern Laos	15
‘Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe: insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ukraine	15
Necroeconomics: dispossession, extraction, and indispensable/expendable laborers in contemporary Myanmar	15
La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: alaudatio	14
Forest, agriculture, and migration: contemplating the future of forestry and agriculture in the middle-hills of Nepal	14
Violent silence: framing out social causes of climate-related crises	14
Anticipatory ruination	14
Why and how is China reordering the food regime? The Brazil-China soy-meat complex and COFCO’s global strategy in the Southern Cone	13
Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together?	13
Mobilizing compliance: how the state compels village households to transfer land to large farm operators in China	12
Reading markets politically: on the transformativity and relevance of peasant markets	12
Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal	12
Emerging ‘agrarian climate justice’ struggles in Myanmar	12
The ideology of innovation: philanthropy and racial capitalism in global food governance	11
An air of legality – legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia	11
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: tractors, accumulation and agrarian change	11
Persistent rurality in Mexico and ‘the right to stay home’	11
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	11
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	11
Neoliberal extractivism: Brazil in the twenty-first century	11
Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland	11
I will follow? Authoritarian populism, past and present	10
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	10
Why do farmers' cooperatives fail in a market economy? Rediscovering Chayanov with the Chinese experience	10
The resurgence of agricultural mechanisation in Ethiopia: rhetoric or real commitment?	10
Navigating the spaces between human rights and justice: cultivating Indigenous representation in global environmental governance	10
Productive farmers and vulnerable food securers: contradictions of gender expertise in international food security discourse	10
Shifting frontiers: the making of Matopiba in Brazil and global redirected land use and control change	10
Petty commodity production	10
‘Feeding the world, byte by byte’: emergent imaginaries of data productivism	9

‘Nothing about us, without us’: reflections on the challenges of building Land in Our Hands, a national land network in Myanmar/Burma	9
Agrarian class relations in Rwanda: a labour-centred perspective	9
Acceptance or resistance?—Explaining local reactions to land titling in three Chinese villages	9
The politics of Myanmar’s agrarian transformation	9
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.	9
Using property law to expand agroecology: Scotland’s land reforms based on human rights	9
Land relations, resource extraction and displacement effects in island Papua New Guinea	9
Climate change as the last trigger in a long-lasting conflict: the production of vulnerability in northern Guinea-Bissau, West Africa	8
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	8
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war	8
Tractors, states, markets and agrarian change in Africa	8
The last enclosure: smoke, fire and crisis on the Indonesian forest frontier	8
The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: insights from La Via Campesina’s politics	8
Rethinking food regime as gender regime: agrarian change and the politics of social reproduction	8
Bringing the city to the country? Responsibility, privilege and urban agrarianism in Metro Vancouver	8
Advocating afforestation, betting on BECCS: land-based negative emissions technologies (NETs) and agrarian livelihoods in the global South	8
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	8
Imagined transitions: agrarian capitalism and climate change adaptation in Colombia	8
The environmentalization of the agrarian question and the agrarianization of the climate justice movement	8
From company town to company village: CSR and the management of rural aspirations in eastern India’s extractive economies	8
How grassroots cadres broker land taking in urbanizing China	8