Edited By: Carla Gras, Shreya Sinha, Forrest Zhang, Kees Jansen, Jessie Luna, and Marcus Taylor
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The Journal of Agrarian Change is a leading journal in the field of agrarian political economy. We promote the interdisciplinary investigation of the social relations and dynamics of production, property and power in agrarian formations and their processes of change, both historical and contemporary.
Contributions are welcomed from political economists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, economists, geographers and lawyers. We publish original research on topics such as land reform, rural social movements, and agroecology.
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Bernstein and Byres Prize 2023
December 13, 2024
Carla Gras, Kees Jansen, Jessie Luna, Jonathan Pattenden, Helena Pérez Niño, Forrest Zhang, Shreya Sinha, Marcus Taylor
We are pleased to announce that Yu Huang of the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Minzu University of China, Beijing, has been awarded the 2023 Bernstein and Byres Prize for her article ‘“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China’, Journal of Agrarian Change 23(2): 286-306.
You can read the full announcement here.
Please see here for previous winners of the Bernstein-Byres Prize
Call for a Special Issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change
We invite scholars to contribute to a special issue on the Global Pesticide Complex. Learn more here.
Changes in the Editorial Team
The editorial team at the Journal of Agrarian Change are pleased to announce that Dr Jessie Luna and Professor Marcus Taylor have joined us as editors. You can find more information here.
Changes in the Editorial Team
March 28, 2023
Liam Campling, Carla Gras, Kees Jansen, Jens Lerche, Helena Perez Niño, Bridget O'Laughlin, Carlos Oya, Shreya Sinha and Forrest Zhang
The editorial team at Journal of Agrarian Change are pleased to announce that Dr. Shreya Sinha, Dr. Forrest Zhang and Dr. Kees Jansen are joining us as Editors.
Please read the full announcement here.
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The Editors' independent website Agrarian Questions (complementary to Journal of Agrarian Change) is available here.
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Rural Land Markets and Accumulation in an Agrarian Periphery: A Class‐Relational Approach to Rentierism in India
- 11 March 2025
Sustainability for Finance: Situating Green Bonds in the Assetization of Brazilian Agriculture
- 10 March 2025
Theatre of Enforcement at Sea: The Global Fight Against ‘Illegal Fishing’ and the Criminalisation of Fisher Peoples and Exploitation of Fish Workers
- 6 March 2025
Tastes for Luxury: How Dietary Aspirations Underpin Food Regimes
- 4 March 2025
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The Journal of Agrarian Change published a Symposium on the Political Economy of Land and the Colombian Peace Process (JAC Vol. 17, No. 4, October 2017), edited by Christopher Cramer and Elisabeth Jean Wood. This is an interview with one of the editors, Christopher Cramer, and two authors, Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín and Mauricio Velásquez Ospina, highlighting some of the main contributions and findings of the Symposium. The interview was conducted by Helena Pérez Niño in SOAS, University of London.
Watch it here.
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Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the OARE Initiative.