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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	123
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	85
Scholar activism and land struggles	84
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya	81
A brief history of commercial capitalism	51
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	40
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	38
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	38
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	38
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	34
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	33
Land rush	32
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	31
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	29
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	29
Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia	28
Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm	27
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	27
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	26
Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation	24
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture	23
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	22
Enacting democracy in a de facto state: coca, cocaine and campesino unions in the Chapare, Bolivia	21
Forest, agriculture, and migration: contemplating the future of forestry and agriculture in the middle-hills of Nepal	21
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	21

The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism. Lessons From Bolivia	20
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	20
The politics of transnational fishers' movements	20
Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland	19
The moral economy of isolates: ‘Escape agriculture’ and warzone public authority	19
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 Mexico	19
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan	19
Household diversification and market dependence: understanding vulnerability in rural West Africa	19
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist	19
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New	19
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	18
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	18
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside	18
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD	17
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	17
From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon	17
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism	16
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	15
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	15
A feminist methodology for implementing the right to food in agrarian communities: reflections from Cambodia and Ghana	15
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	15
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	15
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	15
Correction	14
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique	13
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	13
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U	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
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	13
The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops	13
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	12
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	12
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	12
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	12
Performing property in Göllüce: land enclosures and commoning struggles in 1960s Turkey	12
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production	11
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	11
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	10
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	10
Gone with the Hazelnuts	10
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	10
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	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 second contradiction of capitalism	10
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	10
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom	10
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
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	9

The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	9
Global libidinal economy	9
Prosperity in rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania	9
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: tractors, accumulation and agrarian change	9
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	9
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	9
China and global food security	8
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice	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
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	8
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	8
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture	8
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	8
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 present	7
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	7
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	7
Development, governmentality and the sedentary state: the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia’s Somali pastoral periphery	7
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
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	7
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	7
Accumulation by dispossession and African seeds: colonial institutions trump seed business law	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
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction	7
Correction	7
We rise for our land: land struggles and repression in Southern Africa	7
Soil as a site of struggle: differentiated rifts under different modes of farming in intensive commercial agriculture in urbanizing China	7
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition	7