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Reshaping State-Led Agricultural Modernization in China: The Hydrosocial Reconfigurations of Small-Scale Farmland Irrigation Infrastructures 重塑中国国家主导的农业现代化：小规模农田灌溉基础设施的水文社会重构

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70072

Caixia Man, Raymond Yu Wang

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Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal: Negotiating Hybrid Land Control by Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos 超越正式与非正式的二元对立：中国香蕉企业家在老挝的混合土地控制谈判

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2026-03-22 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70081

Ben Fan, Xiaobo Hua, Yasuyuki Kono

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Searching for Sustainability: Industrial Agriculture of Small Farmers in China and Its Structural Strains 寻找可持续性：中国小农工厂化农业及其结构压力

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2026-06-12 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70097

Qian Forrest Zhang

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Disentangling Inequality and Exploitation in the Rice Value Chain in Northern Uganda 解开乌干达北部稻米价值链中的不平等和剥削

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2026-05-03 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70090

Malin J. Nystrand

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The Exclusion of Smallholders in Transformations of Agricultural Machinery Service Markets 农机服务市场转型中的小农排斥

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70052

Chen Yiyuan

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Encountering Plant Materiality: Limits of Large-Scale Soybean Intercropping in China 遭遇植物物质性：中国大规模大豆间作的局限性

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70039

Lu Pan, Siyu Kang, Ye Zhu

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Agro-Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China 农工围场：中国的粮食安全、土地整理与农村流离失所

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2026-03-17 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70074

Karita Kan

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Negotiating Work and Care: Rural Women's Bargaining Power in Chile's Neoliberal Agrarian Sector 谈判工作和关怀：农村妇女在智利新自由主义农业部门的议价能力

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2026-03-18 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70078

Patricia Retamal, Chiara Cazzuffi

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All Roads Lead to China: Argentina's Beef Exports in the Context of a New Subordinate Complementarity 条条大路通中国：新从属互补背景下的阿根廷牛肉出口

IF 4.1 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-06-26 Epub Date: 2026-03-17 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70080

Emilia Ormaechea, Bruno Capdevielle, Christin Bernhold

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Reservoirs of Fertility: Colonialism and Britain's Turn to ‘Food Security’, 1945–65 《丰产水库：殖民主义和英国转向“粮食安全”，1945 - 1965》

IF 2.9 2区经济学

Journal of Agrarian Change Pub Date : 2026-03-13 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70061

Alex McKendrick

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