Many of the institutions (such as the World Bank) that propagate this thinking have also been able to acquire skills in producing and propagating highly accessible and policy-oriented publications that are widely disseminated worldwide. Critical thinkers are able to challenge the mainstream current in many ways, but are generally confined to relatively small academic circles.

There remains a significant gap in addressing the needs of a broader range of academics (teachers and students), social movement activists, development practitioners (including progressive bureaucrats) in the global South (but also those based in the North) in terms of scientifically rigorous, accessible, politically relevant, policy-oriented and highly affordable books in critical agrarian studies.