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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	204
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya	134
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	122
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	82
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	75
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	68
Scholar activism and land struggles	50
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	50
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	49
Land rush	46
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	41
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core	39
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	38
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	37
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia	35
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	33
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture	30
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	30
Extractivism across production and social reproduction: classes of labour in rural Turkey	29
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance	29
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	29
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	29
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	29
The ‘return’ of land grabbing?	26
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	25

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
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority	22
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia	21
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist	21
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan	21
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	20
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	20
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside	20
Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico	20
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD	19
Turnover time in the pandemic era: industrial poultry, avian influenza and capitalist strategies	18
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	18
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism	18
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	16
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	16
Correction	16
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	16
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care: nomadic relationalities between the global pandemic and environmental risks	16
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	15
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	15
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon	15
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	14
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U	13
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	13
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place	13
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique	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
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	13
Global pesticide complex	12
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	12
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture: entrepreneurial farming and the regional state in South India (Andhra Pradesh)	12
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	12
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	12
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	12
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	11
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production	11
Gone with the Hazelnuts	11
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	11
The second contradiction of capitalism	11
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	11
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system	10
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	10
Collective empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous peasant movements and political transformation	10
Global libidinal economy	10
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta	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
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	10
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania	10
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	10

Dispersed dispossession: collective goods, appropriation, and agency in rural Russia	10
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture	9
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala	9
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	9
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	9
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	9
China and global food security	9
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice	9
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	8
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	8
Agrarian struggles, climate crisis and right-wing populism amidst progressive and conservative farmers’ protests in Germany	8
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	8
A missing link in the agrarian question: the role of ground-rent and landed property in capital accumulation. The case of Argentina (1993-2019)	8
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	8
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	8
Correction	8
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa	8
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	8
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	8
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico	7
Food security and power struggle in the Chinese ‘battle of the beans’	7
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.	7
Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies	7
Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal	7
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war	7
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction	7
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition	7
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India	7
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush	7
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives	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
Agrarian transition in small open societies. The case of Caribbean economies	7
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–2020	7