# Sociologist Maryam Aslany on why the world depends on peasants

An episode of [Nine To Noon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/174829950), 22 Oct 2026, 25 min.

Audio: https://flex.acast.com/podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20261023-1005-sociologist_maryam_aslany_on_why_the_world_depends_on_peasants-128.mp3

Sociologist Maryam Aslany says there are still roughly two billion people out there living as peasants in her new book Peasants: Makers of the Modern World she argues that these small-scale farmers are essential to the global economy.

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