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Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
wiley   +1 more source

Controlled irrigation suppresses methane emissions by reshaping the rhizosphere microbiomes in rice. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr
Lau KJX, Ma A, Chen B, Thankaraj Salammal MS, Ramachandran S, Naqvi NI.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Figures of an Agrarian Nation: Indonesia's Agricultural Census, 1963–2023

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why have Indonesia's decennial agricultural censuses defined their key unit of analysis, the ‘agricultural household’, differently? How do changes to that category shape knowledge production among those who rely on census data? This paper compares definitions of the agricultural household across seven censuses with international ...
Colum Graham
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Enhancing biological nitrogen fixation in rice paddy ecosystems: challenges, opportunities, and sustainable strategies. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Zhang Y, Wang H, Chen P.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
wiley   +1 more source

Microplastic Pollution in Agricultural Waters in the Mississippi Delta. [PDF]

J Xenobiot
Heinen E, Cizdziel JV, Olubusoye BS, Li R, Moore MT, Witthaus LM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

Hotspots of N2O accumulation in the soil profile of alternate wetting and drying paddy fields. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Liu G, Chen X, Chen T, Chi D, Zou H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

Flooding: another abiotic stressor to consider in plant-insect interactions. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Kaur S, Ngumbi E.
europepmc   +1 more source