Journal of Agrarian Change

Special Issue: Agrarian Change, Rural Poverty and Land Reform in South Africa since 1994
Volume 13, Issue 1

Symposium: Microfinance and Rural Development
Volume 12, Issue 4

FREE ONLINE - Special Issue: The Political Economy and Ecology of Capture Fisheries
Volume 12, Issues 2-3

Special Issue: The Agrarian Roots of Violent Conflict
Volume 11, Issue 3

FREE ONLINE - Special Issue: Productive Forces in Capitalist Agriculture: Political Economy and Political Ecology
Volume 10, Issue 3

Symposium: The 2007–8 World Food Crisis
Volume 10, Issue 1

Symposium: THE World Development Report 2008
Volume 9, Issue 2

Transnational Agrarian Movements: Confronting Globalization
Edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Marc Edelman and Cristobal Kay
Volume 8, Issue 2-3

We are delighted to introduce the Bernstein-Byres Prize for best article of the year. The prize will be offered as £500 cash.

FREE ONLINE

2011 Winner
Freedom from Poverty is Not for Free’: Rural Development and the Microfinance Crisis in Andhra Pradesh, India
Marcus Taylor
Volume 11, Issue 4

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NEW Virtual Issue of JAC

We are delighted to announce the first Virtual Issue of JAC bringing together ten key articles on Agrarian Reform and Social Movements in Latin America.
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High Impact Ranking for JAC
We are delighted to announce impressive impact factor rankings for Journal of Agrarian Change in the ISI Social Science Citation Index.

Impact Factor 2011: 1.348
ISI Journal Citation Reports ©: 17/54 (Planning and Development Category) 84/320 (Economics)

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On the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Journal the Editors have brought together 11 ‘classic’ articles. We see this selection of articles as being representative of the high quality and range of the contributions made to the Journal over the last decade. For us, they show the scope of contributions across disciplines, geographic areas and issues. We hope that you will enjoy reading them, as much as we enjoyed selecting them.

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From Peasant Studies to Agrarian Change
Henry Bernstein, Terence J. Byres

La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
Saturnino M. Borras Jr

Chinese Land Reform in Long-Run Perspective and in the Wider East Asian Context
Chris Bramall

The Low Countries in the Transition to Capitalism
Robert P Brenner

Neo-Classical Neo-Populism 25 Years On: Déjà Vu and Déjà Passé. Towards a Critique
Byres, TJ

West African Insurgencies in Agrarian Perspective: Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone Compared
J-P. Chauveau and P. Richards

The Unnatural Coupling: Food and Global Finance
Jayati Ghosh

Amsterdam is Standing on Norway
Jason W Moore

Rural Poverty and Development Strategies in Latin America
Cristóbal Kay

Inequality and Social Conflict Over Land in Africa
Pauline E. Peters

The Vanishing Free Market: The Formation and Spread of the British and US Food Regimes
Bill Winders