Land is central to contemporary debates about politics. Land sustains the livelihoods of millions through farming, livestock keeping, hunting and collecting. Such livelihoods are intimately bound up w...

What a keyword means to you often depends on which side of the fence you stand. The term ‘land tenure security’ can be protecting poor peasants, but it could also mean legitimizing a land grab by a co...

Moges Belay argues that the recent emergence of aspiring small- and medium-size capitalist farmers in Ethiopia results from the land rush over the past 20 years

Colombia signs a Pact for Land and Life and commits to land redistribution, restititution and recognition for rural working people. Read more in this blog post

The Ethiopia-Sudan borderlands have long been a hub of capitalist production of lucrative agricultural commodities such as sesame that profoundly shape the political economy of these borderlands. Cros...

How do production and social reproduction interplay with each other in migrants' place of origin and in their host communities. This article investigates

In Colombia, rural working people's struggles are led by Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Colombians, and Campesinxs, each with platforms for land claims. While these efforts have yielded significant title...

We are pleased to announce the Asia Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism 2025 1-12 July 2025, China Agricultural University, Beijing. Call for Applications The Journal o…

The role of Indigenous peoples in the protection of the nature ‘commons’ has gained much traction worldwide. It has been suggested that Indigenous ‘environmental stewardship’ would significantly co...