The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science
research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies …

This report provides an update to Peter Walker's 2005 report that questioned the degree to
which political ecologists substantively incorporate ecology in their analyses. Since the …

Agriculture is now more dependent on pesticides than ever. The value of global pesticide
imports increased 3x faster in the 2000s than in the 1990s. Structural transformations in the …

The use and promotion of pesticides is on the increase in many sub-Saharan African
countries, including in the smallholder sector. This paper stems from placed-based research …

Pesticides are an important and widely used tool for crop protection, but they also pose
significant risks to agricultural sustainability, human health and the environment. In this …

COVID-19 has ushered in a new planetary epoch—the Virocene. In doing so, it has laid bare
the limits of humanity's power over nature, exposing the vulnerability of 'normal'ways of living …

The ubiquity of chemicals demands new ways of thinking about human–nature
assemblages. This article develops a dialogue between agrarian political economy, critical …

This paper is as an invitation to rethink social studies of economization and geographies of
marketization at a time when the heydays of neoliberal marketization seem to be over. After …

This report draws upon political ecology and nature–society geography to examine the
production network–nature nexus. Indebted to these approaches, a growing number of …

Abstract Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) faces substantial challenges in
increasingly saturated and competitive markets in which competitors highlight their …