Journal of Agrarian Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Agrarian Change is 1. 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.)
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Balancing Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Development: Contested Spaces of Regulating Bamboo Shoots in China's Giant Panda National Park35
How is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies?28
The lucky and unlucky daughter: Gender, land inheritance and agrarian change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia28
Social reproduction in crisis: Gendered labour regimes in agro‐export sectors in Ecuador and Chile24
All Roads Lead to China: Argentina's Beef Exports in the Context of a New Subordinate Complementarity22
‘For them farming may be the last resort, but for us it is a new hope’: Ageing, youth and farming in India18
Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India16
Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e‐tailers in agricultural e‐commerce in China16
Behind the ‘creative destruction’ of human diets: An analysis of the structure and market dynamics of the ultra‐processed food manufacturing industry and implications for public health16
Examining Land Inheritance Patterns in Ghana Through a Gender Lens15
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone. By Tania MurrayLi, PujoSemedi, Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2021. pp. 256. $26.95 (pb); $102.95 (hb). ISBN: 9781478014914
No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone14
Revisiting class: A feminist political economy analysis of the Indian Time Use Survey13
Land and small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt13
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geographyby HenriLefebvre, StuartElden and Adam DavidMorton, Editors, Robert Bononno, Translator. University of Minnesota Press. 2022. 304 pp. $59 (hbk); $30 (pbk). I13
‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’: Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic12
‘Land for my children’: Gendered moral economies, social reproduction and resistance against land grabs in rural Cambodia12
The social reproduction of natural resource extraction and gendered labour regimes in rural Turkey12
The Children of China's Great Migration, by RachelMurphyCambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. 300. £75 (hb)/$50 (ebook). ISBN: 9781108834858 (hb)/9781108883221 (ebook)12
Exploitation, Interlinked Transactions and Agrarian Class Relations in Uttar Pradesh, India11
Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia11
The Legacy of Carmen Diana Deere: Gender, Households, and Market Integration—An Introduction11
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Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics by BenjaminSelwyn and ChristinBernhold, Oxford University Press, 2025. 320. $130 cloth. ISBN: 9780198887836.11
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Labour and Land in Indonesia: An Introduction10
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Tastes for Luxury: How Dietary Aspirations Underpin Food Regimes10
The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri‐Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in Rural India9
How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha9
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Temporariness made interminable: Pacific Islander farmworkers in Australia and the enduring crises of global agricultural production9
Reservoirs of Fertility: Colonialism and Britain's Turn to ‘Food Security’, 1945–659
Sustainability for Finance: Situating Green Bonds in the Assetization of Brazilian Agriculture9
Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization, By R.Ramakumar (Ed.), Tulika Books. 2022. pp. xxiv+484. INR 1500 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐81‐950559‐0‐68
Land, natural resources and the social reproduction of South Africa's ‘relative surplus population’8
A Marxist Mosaic. Selected Writings 1968–2022 by JairusBanaji. Brill. 2024. xii + 857 pp. €229.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐90‐04‐70330‐88
Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue7
Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java7
Reshaping State‐Led Agricultural Modernization in China: The Hydrosocial Reconfigurations of Small‐Scale Farmland Irrigation Infrastructures7
We, campesinos: The potentials and pitfalls of agrarian populism in Colombia's agrarian strike7
The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–19807
Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry7
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Encountering Plant Materiality: Limits of Large‐Scale Soybean Intercropping in China7
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia7
Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey6
Agrarian change, populism, and a new farmers' movement in 21st century Pakistani Punjab6
Power/knowledge/land: Contested ontologies of land and its governance in Africa. By Laura A.German, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 333. $90.00 (hbk); $39.95 (pbk). ISBN: 97804720756
How to differentiate peasant classes in capital‐intensive agriculture?6
Examining socio‐ecological transitions and new human–wildlife relations in farming landscapes of the Nepal Himalaya6
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Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming: Cases From Java and Flores5
The immaculate conception of data: Agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future. By KellyBronson, Québec: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. pp. 224. C$ 37.95 (pbk)/C$ 130 (hbk5
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China's financialized soybeans: The fault lines of neomercantilism narratives in international food regime analyses5
Discipline and resistance in southwestern Ontario: Securitization of migrant workers and their acts of defiance5
What is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?5
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Trapped Under the Orient's Night: Blind‐Sourced Child Labour in Contract Tobacco Farming5
‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts5
Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction By Helen AnneCurry. University of California Press. 2022. Pp 321. $85 (hb); $29.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780520307681(hb)/9780520307698 (pb5
Behind the Myth: Land Sparing and Deforestation in Brazil5
Agrarian Change and Accumulation in Central India: Revisiting the Agrarian Question of Capital5
Who rents out the land? Agrarian capital accumulation and lessor landowners in South America: The case of Uruguay4
Emerging patterns of accumulation in land redistribution in South Africa4
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Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe4
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New Waves of Sugarcane Commercialisation: Unequal Forms of Exchange in a North Indian Village4
A Just Transition or a Downward Spiral? Land and Livelihood Transitions to and Away From Coal Mining in India4
Water for all: Community, property, and revolution in modern Bolivia, by Sarah T.Hines. University of California Press. Pp. xviii+321. £ 66 (hb); £24 (pb). ISBN: 9780520381636 (hb); 9780520381643 (pb)4
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique4
Editorial Introduction: The 25th Anniversary Forums4
Cultivating Climate Precarity: Mechanisms of Surplus Capture and Immiserizing Growth in Guatemala's Horticultural Export Sector3
From Theory to the Field and Back Again: Fieldwork‐Based Research on Social Differentiation in Agrarian Studies3
Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam3
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal3
Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa3
Reassessing Soviet industrialization as primitive Soviet accumulation: Social reproduction, collectivization and peasant women's revolts under Stalin3
Rural Land Markets and Accumulation in an Agrarian Periphery: A Class‐Relational Approach to Rentierism in India3
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand3
Paying for ecological services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality3
Agricultural Producer Training and Class Differentiation in China3
Handbook of critical agrarian studies, By HaroonAkram‐Lodhi, KristinaDietz, BettinaEngels, Ben M.McKay, Edward Elgar (Eds.), 2021, Pp. xxvi + 713. £244.80 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐78897‐245‐13
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry: From the agrarian question to the question of industrialization3
Tracking farmland investment in Australia: Institutional finance and the politics of data mapping2
Political economy of input–output markets of groundnut: A case from the groundnut value chain of Turkey2
Restructuring palm oil value chain governance in Colombia through long‐term labour control2
Institutions and the Gender Land Gap: A Comparative Analysis2
Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp2
Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma2
Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis2
Pensadores Rebeldes, By CristóbalKay, Santiago de Chile: Ediciones UDP, 2023. 195 pp. $26.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐956‐314‐578‐62
Contested capital: Rural middle classes in India, By MaryamAslany. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp xxiii+299. $120.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐108‐83633‐32
Labour control regimes in the rural and urban workplaces of global production networks: The coffee case of Colombia2
Coolie labour and colonial capitalism in Asia2
Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso2
Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction2
‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland2
Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India, By ShankarRamaswami, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. pp. 304. $64.95 (hb) / $64.95 (e‐2
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Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South2
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry2
Going green in Thailand: Upgrading in global organic value chains2
Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana2
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Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico1
Sustainability Standards, Differentiation and Green Capital Accumulation in Global Agrifood Value Chains1
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Dependent Articulation in the Global Pesticide Complex: Argentina's Agrochemical Industry After the Generics Market Revolution1
The persistence and expansion of sharecropping in a Javanese village1
COVID‐19 and the power of indigenous, Mexican‐origin farmworker families in the US Pacific Northwest1
Now we are in power: The politics of passive revolution in twenty‐first‐century Bolivia by AngusMcNelly. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. Pp. 268. $60 (hb). ISBN 13: 978‐08229‐4778‐3. ISBN 10: 0‐1
From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy1
The social reproduction of (and through) food: Agrarian change in Uzbekistan1
Vulnerabilities of the neoliberal global food system: The Russia–Ukraine War and COVID‐191
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers1
Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation, By KelkarGovind and DevNathanCambridge University Press. 2020. 284 pp. $99.99 (hbk). ISBN: 97811084905111
Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers1
Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes1
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Seeds of empire or seeds of friendship? The politics of the diffusion of Chinese cotton seeds in Tajikistan1
“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China1
Mending the Broken Clock: Gender and Socioecological Changes in Postconflict North Sumatra1
Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship1
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Land for dignity and struggle for identity: Landlordism and caste in a village of south India1
Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal: Negotiating Hybrid Land Control by Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos1
Political economy of the ‘agrarian–urban frontier’ in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation1
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China1
Navigating the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises in South Africa's land reform1
The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India1
Can food sovereignty be institutionalised? Insights from the Cuban experience1
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Plantation crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian tea belt. By JayaseelanRaj, London: UCL Press. 2022. pp. 234. £40 (hb); £20 (pb). ISBN: 9781800082298, 97818000822811
Fifty years of peasant wars in Latin America, Edited by LeighBinford, LesleyGill and SteveStrifflerNew York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2020. Pp. 228. $135.00/£99.00 (hb). ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐561‐91
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