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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Distilling agro‐extractivism: Agave and tequila production in Mexico	32
Twenty‐five years ofLiving Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world	20
Community‐based tourism, peasant agriculture and resilience in the face of COVID‐19 in Peru	19
Politically directed accumulation in rural China: The making of the agrarian capitalist class and the new agrarian question of capital	19
Land and livelihood in the age of COVID‐19: Implications for indigenous food producers in Ecuador	17
Surveillance agriculture and peasant autonomy	16
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics	16
Who owns the mud? Valuable leftovers, sociotechnical innovation and changing relations of production in artisanal gold mining (Burkina Faso)	16
What kind of labour regime is contract farming? Contracting and sharecropping in Java compared	14
Autonomy and repeasantization: Conceptual, analytical, and methodological problems	14
Credit, land and survival work in rural Cambodia: Rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens	14
Capitalist agriculture, COVID‐19 and agrarian labour relations in Punjab, India	14
Cashing in or driving development? Cross‐border traders and maize contract farming in northeast Laos	13
Rural China under the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differentiated impacts, rural–urban inequality and agro‐industrialization	12
Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines	11
Living under value chains: The new distributive contract and arguments about unequal bargaining power	11
The end of the rural/urban divide? Migration, proletarianization, differentiation and peasant production in an ejido, Central Mexico	11
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 health	11
Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa	10
Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour	10
Class formation and capital accumulation in the countryside: Artisanal and small‐scale gold mining in South Kivu, DR Congo	10
Autonomy as a politico‐economic concept: Peasant practices and nested markets	10
Global agri‐food chains in times of COVID‐19: The state, agribusiness, and agroecology in Argentina	9
Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia	9
Soybean production in Paraguay: Agribusiness, economic change and agrarian transformations	8

Resisting the coastal squeeze through village associations? Comparing environmental, organizational, and political challenges in Philippine seaweed‐growing communities	8
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America	8
Labour, mechanization, market integration, and government policy: Agrarian change and lowland rice cultivation in northeastern Thailand and southern Laos	8
“Ploughing the land five times”: Opium and agrarian change in the ceasefire landscapes of south‐western Shan State, Myanmar	8
Crisis of capitalism and cycles of right‐wing populism in contemporary Turkey: The making and unmaking of Erdoğanist hegemony	7
When seed becomes capital: Commercialization of Bt cotton in Pakistan	7
Ocean frontier assemblages: Critical insights from Canada's industrial salmon sector	7
Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue	7
Masters of the countryside and their enemies: Class dynamics of agrarian change in rural Java	7
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	7
Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e‐tailers in agricultural e‐commerce in China	7
Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China	6
Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North	6
Going green in Thailand: Upgrading in global organic value chains	6
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China	6
Intermediary trading and the transformation of marketplaces in Papua New Guinea	6
Agrarian change, populism, and a new farmers' movement in 21st century Pakistani Punjab	6
The fragmented politics of sugarcane contract farming in Uganda	6
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand	6
Rethinking rural‐urban linkages: Villages and agribusiness in the Ecuadorian Highlands	6
Autonomy in agrarian studies, politics, and movements: An inter‐paradigm debate	6
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South	6
Indebted by dispossession: The long‐term impacts of a Special Economic Zone on caste inequality in rural Telangana	5
Rural differentiation and rural change: Microlevel evidence from Kenya	5
Producing industrial pigs in southwestern China: The rise of contract farming as a coevolutionary process	5
Land and small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt	5
Russian to modern world history: Teodor Shanin and peasant studies	5
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique	5
Differentiated agrarian vulnerabilities and generalized national responses to COVID‐19 in the Upper West Region of Ghana	5
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia	5
Formal and informal contract farming in Mozambique: Socially embedded relations of agricultural intensification	5
The subversive practice of counting bodies: Documenting violence and conflict in rural Brazil	4
Bovine meat, authoritarian populism, and state contradictions in Modi's India	4
Dispossession through land titling: Legal loopholes and shadow procedures to urbanized forestlands in the Yucatán Peninsula	4
Temporariness made interminable: Pacific Islander farmworkers in Australia and the enduring crises of global agricultural production	4
Contemporary agrarian, rural and rural–urban movements and alliances	4
Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso	4
Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4
Land and contract farming: Changes in the distribution and meanings of land in Kilombero, Tanzania	4
From survival to self‐governance: A comparison of two peasant autonomy struggles in Colombia's coffee and frontier regions	4
(Landlord) Theory from the South: Empire and estates on a Punjabi Frontier	3
Amplifying invisibility: COVID‐19 and Zimbabwean migrant farm workers in South Africa	3
Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe	3
Autonomy as a third mode of ordering: Agriculture and the Kurdish movement in Rojava and North and East Syria	3
Climate precarity in rural livelihoods: Agrarian transformations and smallholder vulnerability in Vietnam	3
China's financialized soybeans: The fault lines of neomercantilism narratives in international food regime analyses	3
Restructuring palm oil value chain governance in Colombia through long‐term labour control	3
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry: From the agrarian question to the question of industrialization	3
Pastoralism, multifunctionality, and environmental agency: Insights from mountain sheep pastoralists in Northern Portugal	3
Predators in the web of life: World ecology of historical human–wolf relations in Finland	3

‘Blind laws’ and the bureaucracy of rights migrant industrial workers in post‐lockdown India	3
Tracking farmland investment in Australia: Institutional finance and the politics of data mapping	3
‘Milk actually comes from a cow’: Ontario dairy farmers' reactions and interventions with consumers' milk rifts as third‐party alienation	2
A methodology for class analysis: Agricultural investments and agrarian change in South Africa	2
Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in‐depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’	2
“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China	2
Capital concentration in and through class differentiation: A case study from Pampean agribusiness	2
We, campesinos: The potentials and pitfalls of agrarian populism in Colombia's agrarian strike	2
Illegibly legible: Outcomes of a land records modernisation programme in South India	2
Agrifood field analysis and sociocultural brokerage. Mexico and the United States: 1950–2016	2
COVID‐19 and the power of indigenous, Mexican‐origin farmworker families in the US Pacific Northwest	2
Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp	1
‘For them farming may be the last resort, but for us it is a new hope’: Ageing, youth and farming in India	1
Labour control regimes in the rural and urban workplaces of global production networks: The coffee case of Colombia	1
Paying for ecological services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality	1
Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India By AniketAga. Yale University Press. 2021. pp. 328. $65.00 (hb). ISBN: 9780300245905	1
From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy	1
Blaming the victim or structural conditioning? COVID‐19, obesity and the neoliberal diet	1
‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland	1
The afterlife of living under contract, an epilogue	1
Discipline and resistance in southwestern Ontario: Securitization of migrant workers and their acts of defiance	1
Stealing the common from the goose: The emergence of Farmers' Rights and their implementation in India and Brazil	1
The political economy of agrarian extractivism: Lessons from Bolivia, by BenMcKay. Black Point: Fernwood Publications. 2020 172 pp. $20.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781773632537	1
Coolie labour and colonial capitalism in Asia	1
Political economy of input–output markets of groundnut: A case from the groundnut value chain of Turkey	1
Revisiting “empowered rural women” in postwar Japan	1
Agricultural intensification increases farmers' income but reduces food self‐sufficiency and bee diversity: Evidence from southeast Mexico	1
The social reproduction of natural resource extraction and gendered labour regimes in rural Turkey	1
Land for dignity and struggle for identity: Landlordism and caste in a village of south India	1
Manufactured regional crises: The Middle East and North Africa under global food regimes	1
Contesting total extractivism: Between idealism and materialism	1
Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia	1
Colonialism, “efficiency” and development: Re‐examining Puerto Rico's land reform, 1935–1945	1
Work and social reproduction in rural India: Lessons from time‐use data	1
Rural–urban connectivity strengthens agrarian peace: Evidence from a study of gender and motorcycle taxis in Sierra Leone	1
Handbook of critical agrarian studies, By HaroonAkram‐Lodhi, KristinaDietz, BettinaEngels, Ben M.McKay, Edward Elgar (Eds.), 2021, Pp. xxvi + 713. £244.80 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐78897‐245‐1	1
Land reform and peacebuilding in Côte d'Ivoire: Navigating the minefield	1
Family farmers' strategies to develop autonomy through agroecological and solidarity economy practices: The case of BioVida in the Ecuadorian Andes	1
‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’: Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic	1
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers	1
Handbook on urban food security in the Global South, JonathanCrush, BruceFrayneGarethHaysom. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2020. 415 + x. £150 (hb).£48.00 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐78643‐150‐9	1
Twists and turns of land reform in Latin America: From predatory to intermediate states?	1
Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes	1