"The prayers of those of us who have long hungered for a comprehensive, historically deep, learned and accessible account of international agrarian movements ha
Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers whostruggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge theWorld Trade Organization and other po
Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, prov
When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be m
Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite
