Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

2012 - 2025

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Volume 8, issue 3, 2019

The Agrarian Question and Coffee in Costa Rica pp. 323-348

Nicholas Babin

Thirty Years of Urban Bias: An Estimation of the Rising Disparities in Female Rural and Female Urban Unemployment and Income in Egypt pp. 349-390

Heba Helmy

Farmers’ Seed Systems in Southern Africa: Alternatives to Philanthrocapitalism pp. 391-413

Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson

Conditions of Employment and Livelihood Security of Informal Workers: A Study of Four Villages in Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal pp. 414-439

Mampi Bose and Shantanu De Roy

The Agribusiness Model in South African Land Reform? Land Use Implications for the Land Reform Beneficiaries pp. 440-461

Clemence Rusenga

Book review: Hugo Chávez (2013), Mi Primera Vida: Conversaciones con Ignacio Ramonet [My First Life: Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet] pp. 462-465

Vitor E. Schincariol

Volume 8, issue 1-2, 2019

Global Agricultural Value Systems: Trends and Alternatives pp. 7-13

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Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South: Some Critical Issues at the Current Juncture pp. 14-29

Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros

Global Value Chains and Agribusiness in Africa: Upgrading or Capturing Smallholder Production? pp. 30-63

Kojo S. Amanor

Working in Chains: African Informal Workers and Global Value Chains pp. 64-92

Kate Meagher

Addressing Workers’ Rights Violations in Apparel and Agricultural Supply Chains through Binding, Cost-Sharing Accords pp. 93-114

Mark Anner

Collective Action as a Prerequisite for Economic and Social Upgrading in Agricultural Production Networks pp. 115-135

Ismail Doga Karatepe and Christoph Scherrer

India’s Rice Export: What Is in It for Farmers?* pp. 136-171

Manish Kumar

The Export Value Chain of Baby Corn in India: Governance, Inclusion and Upgrading pp. 172-207

Sukhpal Singh

Contracting Sugarcane Farming in Global Agricultural Value Chains in Eastern Africa: Debates, Dynamics, and Struggles pp. 208-231

Giuliano Martiniello and Ricardo Azambuja

Political Economy of Command Agriculture in Zimbabwe: A State-led Contract Farming Model pp. 232-257

Freedom Mazwi, Abel Chemura, George T. Mudimu and Walter Chambati

The Food Consumption Pattern of the Free Market: The Mexican Experience Under NAFTA pp. 258-286

Andrea Santos Baca

Sam Moyo and Samir Amin on the Peasant Question pp. 287-302

Issa G. Shivji

Contemporary Capitalism and the World of Work pp. 303-316

Prabhat Patnaik

Volume 7, issue 3, 2018

Editorial pp. vii-ix

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Migration and Rural Differentiation: A Case Study of Two Selected Villages in Noakhali Region of Bangladesh pp. 275-300

Mausumi Mahapatro

The Disrupted Passage from an Agrarian Rural to an Industrial Urban Workforce in Most Countries in the Global South pp. 301-319

Christoph Scherrer

Theorizing Food Sovereignty from a Class-Analytical Lens: The Case of Agrarian Mobilization in Argentina pp. 320-350

Efe Can Gürcan

Drafting a Law, Dissolving a Proposal: Food Sovereignty and the State in Ecuador pp. 351-380

Alexandra Martinez Flores, Guido Ruivenkamp and Joost Jongerden

The Legacy of Ashok Mitra pp. 381-393

Prabhat Patnaik

The Metamorphosis of the Revolutionary Intellectual pp. 394-400

Issa G. Shivji

Book review: James Young (2017), Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie pp. 401-407

Pradeep Shinde

Book review: Aillón, Lorgio Orellana (2016), Resurgimiento y caída de la gente decente: Un sendero en la formación de una clase-etnia dominante en Bolivia pp. 407-411

Apoena C. Cosenza

Volume 7, issue 2, 2018

Social Movements in the Global South pp. vii-xii

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Agrarian Movements in Neoliberal India: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh Vyvasaya Vruthidarula Union pp. 123-144

K. C. Smitha

Agrarian Movements in the Neoliberal Era:: The Case of MVIWATA in Tanzania pp. 145-172

Giuliano Martiniello and Sabatho Nyamsenda

Resisting, Claiming and Prefiguring: Movements for Dignified Housing in São Paulo pp. 173-187

Stella Z. Paterniani

Peasant Agency in a Changing Agrarian Situation in Central Zimbabwe: The Case of Mhondoro Ngezi pp. 188-210

Grasian Mkodzongi

Debating the African Land Question with Archie Mafeje pp. 211-233

Sam Moyo

Globalization and the Peasantry in the South pp. 234-248

Prabhat Patnaik

Peasant Internationalism in South America: Political Training, Experiences and Practices of Resistance pp. 249-256

Deni Alfaro Rubbo

Remarkable Farmers’ Struggles in India: Some Notes from Maharashtra and Rajasthan pp. 257-274

Ashok Dhawale

Volume 7, issue 1, 2018

Insufficient Economic Convergence in the World Economy: How Do Economists Explain Why Too Many Countries Do Not Catch-up? pp. 1-27

Hansjörg Herr and Bea Ruoff

Agricultural Policy, Employment Opportunities and Social Mobility in Rural Malawi pp. 28-50

Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa

Do Labour Laws and Rising Real Wages Explain Employment Stagnation in the Organized Manufacturing Sector of India? An Empirical Investigation pp. 51-77

Anamitra Roychowdhury

US Import Refusals of Agricultural Products and Their Impact on the Participation of Indian Firms pp. 78-104

Murali Kallummal, Disha Mendiratta and Seema Sangita

Globalization and Labour in Developing Countries: India pp. 105-121

Dev Nathan

Volume 6, issue 3, 2017

Editorial Note pp. vii-x

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From ‘Relative Surplus Population’ and ‘Dual Labour Markets’ to ‘Informal’ and ‘Formal’ Employment and Enterprises: Insights About Causation and Consequences pp. 295-305

Sheila Bhalla

Grain Financialization and Food Security: A Chinese Perspective pp. 306-333

Sit Tsui, Lau Kin Chi, Qiu Jiansheng, Yan Xiaohui, Ji Han and Wen Tiejun

Can Partible Inheritance Explain Land Fragmentation? The Case of Bulgaria pp. 334-353

Natalia Boliari

The Status of Smallholder Farmers in Nepal’s Agricultural Development Strategy (2015–2035) pp. 354-372

Hari Roka

Structural Transformation in the North-eastern Region of India: Charting Out an Agriculture-based Development Policy pp. 373-394

Alwin D’Souza and Amit Ray

Changing the World Starts with Interpreting It pp. 395-405

Frank Hoffer

Book Review: Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams (2017), Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation pp. 406-409

S. Krithi

Volume 6, issue 2, 2017

Revolution and Liberation: 100 Years since the October Revolution, 50 Years since the Arusha Declaration pp. vii-xi

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The Agrarian Question a Century after October 1917: Capitalist Agriculture and Agricultures in Capitalism pp. 149-174

Samir Amin

Marxist theory and the October Revolution pp. 175-187

Prabhat Patnaik

Mwalimu and Marx in Contestation: Dialogue or Diatribe? pp. 188-220

Issa G. Shivji

One Hundred Years of Learning: The Russian Revolution of 1917 pp. 221-236

Wilson do Nascimento Barbosa

The Russian Revolution and the Freedom Struggle in India: Rabindranath Tagore’s Letters from Russia pp. 237-262

Malini Bhattacharya

Barbarism or Socialism: 1917–2017–2050 (?) pp. 263-286

Minqi Li

Book Review: Alicia Bárcena and Antonio Prado (2015), Neoestructuralismo y Corrientes Heterodoxas en América Latina y el Caribe a Inicios del Siglo XXI [Neo-structuralism and Heterodox Schools in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Beginning of the 21st century] pp. 287-291

Apoena C. Cosenza

Book Review: Deborah Brautigam (2015), Will Africa Feed China? pp. 291-294

Prachi Bansal

Volume 6, issue 1, 2017

Labour Questions in the Global South pp. vii-xii

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The Concept of ‘Working People’ pp. 1-13

Issa G. Shivji

Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China pp. 14-31

Sit Tsui, Erebus Wong, Lau Kin Chi and Wen Tiejun

Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying ‘Value Capture’ from the South pp. 32-52

Satyaki Roy

From ‘Labour Dividend’ to ‘Robot Dividend’: Technological Change and Workers’ Power in South China pp. 53-78

Yu Huang and Naubahar Sharif

Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe’s New Agrarian Structure pp. 79-112

Walter Chambati

Labour Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Current Crisis (2008–2016) pp. 113-141

Vitor Eduardo Schincariol, Muryatan S. Barbosa and Paris Yeros

Book Review: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Rana P. Behal (Eds), The Vernacularization of Labour Politics pp. 142-145

Senthil Babu

Book Review: Deni Irineu Alfaro Rubbo (2016), Párias da terra: o MST e a mundialização da luta camponesa [Pariahs of the Earth: The MST and the Globalization of the Peasant Struggle] pp. 146-148

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