The Journal of Agrarian Change is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 established in 2001 covering agrarian political economy

Political economy

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. The journal covers historical and contemporary studies of the social relations and dynamics of production, power relations in agrarian formations and ownership structures and their processes of change.

The journal's founding editorial board

Editorial board

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 included 31 of the 33 board members of the Journal of Peasant Studies

Journal of Peasant Studies

The Journal of Peasant Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into the social structures, institutions, actors, and processes of change in the rural areas of the developing world. It was established in 1973 with Terence J...

. Bernstein

Henry Bernstein (sociologist)

Henry Bernstein is a professor of at the University of London: School of Oriental and African Studies. He has worked for many years on social theory, peasant studies, the political economy of agrarian change, and the maize economy and land reform in South Africa...

 and Byres

Terence J. Byres

Terence J. Byres is a peasant studies scholar and a professor emeritus of Political Economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Byres was a founding editor of the Journal of Development Studies , the Journal of Peasant Studies and Journal of Agrarian Change .-...

, two of the founding editors, reviewed in the first article published by the journal, the history of the Journal of Peasant Studies justifying the approach of their new journal and expressing the desire that it should have more coverage of historical debates, feminist scholarship, agrarian technological change and culture and that regions such as Japan, North Africa, and West Asia should also be covered.

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The Journal of Agrarian Change is abstracted and indexed in the following abstracts: Academic Search Premier

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, AGRICOLA

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, Current Contents

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

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of 2.000.