Microfinance is a dominant strategy used to promote rural development around the world.
Rather than directly track its impact on borrowers, however, microfinance institutions rely on …

The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key
means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in …

This historical overview uses a political ecology approach to examine agricultural change
over time in Northwest Cambodia. It focuses on key historical periods, actors, and processes …

In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study the rising number of large-scale
land deals taking place around the world. We organised small grant competitions and …

Many people in the Global South have left behind rural homes in search of employment in
urban and transnational labor markets often defined by precarious work. Employment is …

Social impact investment for microfinance has become a dominant form of poverty regulation
in the global south. These investments aim to alleviate poverty by extending financial …

China has recently become an agent of intensified agricultural production in Southeast Asia
by constructing large‐scale irrigation systems. Funded with Chinese development finance …

Over the last two decades, significant changes in lowland rice cultivation practices have
occurred in mainland Southeast Asia. Here, we compare lowland rice farming in six …

Migration is a dominant survival strategy among rice-farming households in Cambodia.
Using Cambodia's Feed the Future data, this paper examines how rice production, sales …

There is a growing interest in exploring contemporary financialisation in terms of the
geographies of debt. Many economic geographers have adopted a financial ecologies …