OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Distilling agro‐extractivism: Agave and tequila production in Mexico	28
Experiments in farmers' collectives in Eastern India and Nepal: Process, benefits, and challenges	22
Twenty‐five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world	19
Community‐based tourism, peasant agriculture and resilience in the face of COVID‐19 in Peru	18
Land and livelihood in the age of COVID‐19: Implications for indigenous food producers in Ecuador	15
Politically directed accumulation in rural China: The making of the agrarian capitalist class and the new agrarian question of capital	15
Who owns the mud? Valuable leftovers, sociotechnical innovation and changing relations of production in artisanal gold mining (Burkina Faso)	15
Peasant essentialism in GMO debates: Bt cotton in Burkina Faso	14
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics	14
Surveillance agriculture and peasant autonomy	14
What kind of labour regime is contract farming? Contracting and sharecropping in Java compared	13
Capitalist agriculture, COVID‐19 and agrarian labour relations in Punjab, India	13
Autonomy and repeasantization: Conceptual, analytical, and methodological problems	12
Credit, land and survival work in rural Cambodia: Rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens	12
The end of the rural/urban divide? Migration, proletarianization, differentiation and peasant production in an ejido, Central Mexico	11
Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines	10
Cashing in or driving development? Cross‐border traders and maize contract farming in northeast Laos	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
The environmental, social and economic effects of recent technological changes in sugarcane on the State of São Paulo, Brazil	10
Rural China under the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differentiated impacts, rural–urban inequality and agro‐industrialization	10
Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour	9
Largely on their own: Dealing with the rural legacies of conflict through local participatory peacebuilding	9
Global agri‐food chains in times of COVID‐19: The state, agribusiness, and agroecology in Argentina	9
Soybean production in Paraguay: Agribusiness, economic change and agrarian transformations	9

Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia	9
Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa	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
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	8
When seed becomes capital: Commercialization of Bt cotton in Pakistan	7
Ocean frontier assemblages: Critical insights from Canada's industrial salmon sector	7
Resisting the coastal squeeze through village associations? Comparing environmental, organizational, and political challenges in Philippine seaweed‐growing communities	7
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	7
Living under value chains: The new distributive contract and arguments about unequal bargaining power	7
Crisis of capitalism and cycles of right‐wing populism in contemporary Turkey: The making and unmaking of Erdoğanist hegemony	6
Intermediary trading and the transformation of marketplaces in Papua New Guinea	6
BRICS varieties of capitalism and food regime reordering: A comparative institutional analysis	6
Patterns of accumulation and social differentiation through a slow‐paced agrarian market transition in post‐Soviet Uzbekistan	6
Masters of the countryside and their enemies: Class dynamics of agrarian change in rural Java	6
Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North	6
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America	6
Rethinking rural‐urban linkages: Villages and agribusiness in the Ecuadorian Highlands	6
From neoliberalism to national developmentalism? Contested agrarian imaginaries of a postneoliberal future for food and farming	6
Going green in Thailand: Upgrading in global organic value chains	6
Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China	5
The fragmented politics of sugarcane contract farming in Uganda	5
Chinese investment in the Brazilian soybean sector: Navigating relations of private governance	5
Filling the gap: Peasant Studies and the archaeology of medieval peasantry in light of the Northern Iberian evidence	5
Producing industrial pigs in southwestern China: The rise of contract farming as a coevolutionary process	5
Autonomy in agrarian studies, politics, and movements: An inter‐paradigm debate	5
Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue	5
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China	5
Indebted by dispossession: The long‐term impacts of a Special Economic Zone on caste inequality in rural Telangana	5
Russian to modern world history: Teodor Shanin and peasant studies	5
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand	5
Rethinking the political economy of rural struggles in Turkey: Space, structures, and altered agencies	5
Temporariness made interminable: Pacific Islander farmworkers in Australia and the enduring crises of global agricultural production	4
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique	4
Differentiated agrarian vulnerabilities and generalized national responses to COVID‐19 in the Upper West Region of Ghana	4
Bovine meat, authoritarian populism, and state contradictions in Modi's India	4
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia	4
Formal and informal contract farming in Mozambique: Socially embedded relations of agricultural intensification	4
Land and contract farming: Changes in the distribution and meanings of land in Kilombero, Tanzania	4
The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique	4
Rural differentiation and rural change: Microlevel evidence from Kenya	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 small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt	4
Agrarian change, populism, and a new farmers' movement in 21st century Pakistani Punjab	4
From survival to self‐governance: A comparison of two peasant autonomy struggles in Colombia's coffee and frontier regions	4
Free in the mountains or home in the vineyard: Institutional changes in agriculture and negotiating between contract farm labour and valuable fungi collection in Tibet	3
Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe	3
Restructuring palm oil value chain governance in Colombia through long‐term labour control	3
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South	3

The subversive practice of counting bodies: Documenting violence and conflict in rural Brazil	3
‘Blind laws’ and the bureaucracy of rights migrant industrial workers in post‐lockdown India	3
Contemporary agrarian, rural and rural–urban movements and alliances	3
Dispossession through land titling: Legal loopholes and shadow procedures to urbanized forestlands in the Yucatán Peninsula	3
(Landlord) Theory from the South: Empire and estates on a Punjabi Frontier	3
Predators in the web of life: World ecology of historical human–wolf relations in Finland	3
China's financialized soybeans: The fault lines of neomercantilism narratives in international food regime analyses	3
Tracking farmland investment in Australia: Institutional finance and the politics of data mapping	3
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry: From the agrarian question to the question of industrialization	3
‘Milk actually comes from a cow’: Ontario dairy farmers' reactions and interventions with consumers' milk rifts as third‐party alienation	2
Autonomy as a third mode of ordering: Agriculture and the Kurdish movement in Rojava and North and East Syria	2
Amplifying invisibility: COVID‐19 and Zimbabwean migrant farm workers in South Africa	2
Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in‐depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’	2
Common‐pool resource governance and uneven food security: Regional resilience during the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1852	2
A methodology for class analysis: Agricultural investments and agrarian change in South Africa	2
We, campesinos: The potentials and pitfalls of agrarian populism in Colombia's agrarian strike	2
Revisiting “empowered rural women” in postwar Japan	1
Caste, diversification, and the contemporary agrarian question in India: A field perspective	1
‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland	1
Agrifood field analysis and sociocultural brokerage. Mexico and the United States: 1950–2016	1
Discipline and resistance in southwestern Ontario: Securitization of migrant workers and their acts of defiance	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
Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia	1
Coolie labour and colonial capitalism in Asia	1
Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes	1
Rural–urban connectivity strengthens agrarian peace: Evidence from a study of gender and motorcycle taxis in Sierra Leone	1
Paying for ecological services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality	1
Pastoralism, multifunctionality, and environmental agency: Insights from mountain sheep pastoralists in Northern Portugal	1
From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy	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
Land questions in the 21st Century Postcolony	1
Stealing the common from the goose: The emergence of Farmers' Rights and their implementation in India and Brazil	1
COVID‐19 and the power of indigenous, Mexican‐origin farmworker families in the US Pacific Northwest	1
‘For them farming may be the last resort, but for us it is a new hope’: Ageing, youth and farming in India	1
Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e‐tailers in agricultural e‐commerce in China	1
Labour control regimes in the rural and urban workplaces of global production networks: The coffee case of Colombia	1
Climate precarity in rural livelihoods: Agrarian transformations and smallholder vulnerability in Vietnam	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
Land for dignity and struggle for identity: Landlordism and caste in a village of south India	1
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers	1
Contesting total extractivism: Between idealism and materialism	1
Capital concentration in and through class differentiation: A case study from Pampean agribusiness	1
Twists and turns of land reform in Latin America: From predatory to intermediate states?	1
Work and social reproduction in rural India: Lessons from time‐use data	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