April 2021 – Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South

Oil Palm Workers Confront a Fatal Blow Against Unions in Colombia

Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 by Ángela Serrano

On November 1st, 2019, Indupalma, one of the pioneer companies in the Colombian palm oil industry, announced its voluntary dissolution. This company is not bankrupt and owns 10,000 hectares of productive oil palm crops. Why does a productive and financially-viable company decide to enter a voluntary dissolution process? In Colombia, palm oil corporations have implemented,…

Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2

Posted on April 13, 2021October 27, 2022 by Juan Liu

Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2Global food regimes and ChinaWednesday, 28 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Amsterdam (CET) The second episode in Agrarian Conversations webinar series will be on “Global food regimes and China”. What relationship does China have to current food regime transitioning, with the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption of global food commodities, and the…

JPS Forum on India’s Agrarian Question: Class, Caste and Agrarian Change

Posted on April 12, 2021July 14, 2021 by Juan Liu

Jens Lerche (SOAS, London), Surinder Jodhka (JNU), and Satendra Kumar (Inst. of Advanced Studies, Shimla), in conversation with Michael Levien (Johns Hopkins University). The Forum is organised by the Journal of Peasant Studies in partnership with the Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, and the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.