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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	180
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya	128
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	110
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	75
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	66
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core	65
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	48
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	46
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	43
Scholar activism and land struggles	43
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	39
Land rush	38
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	37
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	36
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	33
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia	32
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	32
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture	30
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	28
The ‘return’ of land grabbing?	28
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	28
Extractivism across production and social reproduction: classes of labour in rural Turkey	28
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance	28
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	26
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	26

Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New	25
The politics of transnational fishers' movements	25
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority	24
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia	23
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside	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
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	20
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD	19
Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico	19
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism	19
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	19
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon	19
Turnover time in the pandemic era: industrial poultry, avian influenza and capitalist strategies	18
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	17
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	16
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	16
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	16
Correction	16
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care: nomadic relationalities between the global pandemic and environmental risks	15
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	15
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	14
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique	14
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	14
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place	14
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U	13
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	13
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	13
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	13
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	13
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture: entrepreneurial farming and the regional state in South India (Andhra Pradesh)	12
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	12
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production	12
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	12
Global pesticide complex	12
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation	12
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	11
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 second contradiction of capitalism	10
Gone with the Hazelnuts	10
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	10
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	10
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	10
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom	9
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture	9
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala	9
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	9
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	9
Dispersed dispossession: collective goods, appropriation, and agency in rural Russia	9
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	9

The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	9
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta	9
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system	9
Global libidinal economy	9
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	9
China and global food security	9
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania	9
Collective empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous peasant movements and political transformation	9
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	9
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	8
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	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
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice	8
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	8
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	8
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	8
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa	8
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war	7
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
Food security and power struggle in the Chinese ‘battle of the beans’	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
Correction	7
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition	7
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction	7
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives	7
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush	7
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	7
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India	7
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico	7
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.	7