The list includes papers by CASAS members who participated in past JPS writeshops! From the Journal of Peasant Studies: The Web of Science Journal Citation Reports 2021 was released on 30 June 2021. The 2-year Impact Factor of Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) is 6.4 (and its 5-year Impact Factor is 7.2.), ranking JPS 1/88 in Anthropology and 3/41 in…
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Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2
Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2Global food regimes and ChinaWednesday, 28 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Amsterdam (CET) The second episode in Agrarian Conversations webinar series will be on “Global food regimes and China”. What relationship does China have to current food regime transitioning, with the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption of global food commodities, and the…
JPS Forum on India’s Agrarian Question: Class, Caste and Agrarian Change
Jens Lerche (SOAS, London), Surinder Jodhka (JNU), and Satendra Kumar (Inst. of Advanced Studies, Shimla), in conversation with Michael Levien (Johns Hopkins University). The Forum is organised by the Journal of Peasant Studies in partnership with the Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, and the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
Special Issue: New Insights on Land Grabs in the BRICS and Global South
Guested edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Ben M. McKay and Juan Liu The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the “global land grab”, and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international…
From biomedical to politico-economic crisis: the food system in times of Covid-19
Abstract: The Covid-19 disease is quickly developing into a deep, global and enduring politico-economic crisis that involves a rapid disarticulation of the production, processing, distribution and consumption of food. The badly balanced world market and the high degree of financialization of both primary agricultural production and food chains are decisive factors in this. The crisis…




