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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya	264
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	154
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	151
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	95
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	91
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	72
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	59
Land rush	59
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	56
Scholar activism and land struggles	52
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	47
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core	43
Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China	43
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city	43
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	42
Labors of division: global capitalism and the emergence of the peasant in Colonial Panjab	40
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	37
Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border	34
Subjects of the sun: solar energy in the shadows of racial capitalism	34
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	33
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	33
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance	32
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	31
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	30
Extractivism across production and social reproduction: classes of labour in rural Turkey	29

Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	28
The ‘return’ of land grabbing?	28
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	24
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture	24
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist	23
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia	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
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan	22
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	22
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside	22
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	21
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism	20
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD	20
Correction	20
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care: nomadic relationalities between the global pandemic and environmental risks	18
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	18
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	18
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	17
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	17
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	17
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	16
Turnover time in the pandemic era: industrial poultry, avian influenza and capitalist strategies	16
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U	16
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	16
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	15
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation	15
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	15
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place	15
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	15
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	15
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique	14
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	13
Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies	13
Evaluating the adoption of the Round Table on Responsible Soy in Mato Grosso, Brazil	13
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	13
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	12
Global pesticide complex	12
Gone with the Hazelnuts	12
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	12
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	12
The second contradiction of capitalism	12
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	12
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture: entrepreneurial farming and the regional state in South India (Andhra Pradesh)	12
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	12
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	12
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system	11
Global libidinal economy	11
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture	11
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	11
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta	11

Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania	11
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	11
Collective empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous peasant movements and political transformation	11
Dispersed dispossession: collective goods, appropriation, and agency in rural Russia	11
Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa	11
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	11
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice	10
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	10
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	10
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	10
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	10
Handbook on alternative global development	10
China and global food security	10
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	9
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	9
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	9
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war	9
Agrarian struggles, climate crisis and right-wing populism amidst progressive and conservative farmers’ protests in Germany	9
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala	9
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico	9
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	9
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	9
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa	9
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition	9
Food security and power struggle in the Chinese ‘battle of the beans’	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
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.	8
Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal	8
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush	8
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India	8
‘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	8
Iron will: global extractivism and mining resistance in Brazil and India	8
Correction	8
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives	8
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–2020	8
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction	8