While globally it is reported that peasants are fighting against land grabbing, Ukrainian rural
dwellers show tolerance and peaceful acceptance of land grab-related changes. This paper …

What does food sovereignty look like in settings where rural social movements are weak or
non-existent, such as in countries with post-socialist, semi-authoritarian regimes? Focusing …

This article critically analyzes the assumption that land is becoming increasingly scarce and
that, therefore, farmland values are bound to rise across the globe. It investigates the …

This study distinguishes and challenges three main assumptions/shortcomings regarding
the silent majority-the majority of the LordinaryL, LsimpleL, LlittleL people, who are the main …

Through a study of agricultural service cooperatives in Russia's Belgorod region, this article
addresses two gaps in the literature: first, the dearth of empirical studies on cooperatives in …

The majority of the world's smallholders live in countries that experience (d) socialism, but
they largely remain invisible in agrarian studies. This special issue puts the spotlight on post …

Progressive agrarian populism and food sovereignty have recently been discussed as
having the potential to erode the right‐wing populist agitation that is currently widespread in …

Farmers in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe are the major beneficiaries of the
European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), at least in monetary terms. Why …

This article applies the concept of “naive monarchism”(ie, the traditional peasant
expressions of reverence for the tsar as their benefactor) to study contemporary rural politics …

Russian policymakers have ambitions to become a major exporter of organic foods,
capturing as much as 10% of the world's organic market. Russia's war with Ukraine and …