About the Book: This compelling work by Maryam Aslany challenges the misconception that peasants are relics of the past, revealing how small-scale farmers and rural communities sustain global economies, food systems and fragile ecosystems. Travelling across three continents, from India’s sugarcane fields to Cambodia’s rice plains, Peru’s agricultural regions and Ghana’s cocoa belt, Aslany uncovers the lives and struggles of the people behind essential global commodities. Combining investigative research and human stories, the book examines agricultural inequality, labour exploitation, food insecurity and environmental decline, highlighting why the future of the peasantry is inseparable from the future of humanity.