Check out this just-published book chapter by Carol Hérnandez, CASAS member: Abstract: Peasant agriculture and its agrobiodiversity systems are at a juncture in which two global processesimpose significant challenges for their sustainability: climate change and the expansion of agriculturalbiotechnology supported by a regimen of intellectual property rights over plant genetic resources. Inthis article, I explore…
Month: December 2023
Alternatives and Resistances to Capitalist Hegemony Models in Rural Worlds
New publication alert! The thematic dossier of the journal “Debates en Sociologia,” co-edited by Mercedes Ejarque (CASAS member) and Tomás Palmisano, has just been published. You can find the presentation of the dossier, by both co-editors, in the following link (written in Spanish): https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/27931
The Dictatorship and the Peasantry: Search for Truth, Memory, and Reparation in the Case of Pedra Lisa/RJ
New publication alert! Check out this just-published article by Gabriel Bastos (CASAS member), Luana Mariani de Aguiar Furtado, Maria Clara Pinho Valente, and Thales Arcoverde Treiger: Abstract: This article aims to demonstrate the importance of seeking truth, memory, and reparation for the peasants of Pedra Lisa, a rural area in Baixada Fluminense, in Rio de…
Green Grabbing and “Weak Land Governance” in Matopiba’s Agricultural Frontier: Violation of Rights in the Akróa Gamela Indigenous Territory in Brazil
New publication alert! Check out this just-published article by Anderson Silva (CASAS member), Thais Lombardi, and José Wylk. Abstract: This article contributes to the current debate on the violation of human rights through the practice of green grabbing. The study reflects upon the situation of territorial insecurity and the struggle for territorial rights of the…
Podcast: Climate politics, carbon offsets and green minerals
Recently, Emilinah Namaganda of Utrecht University and CASAS member, alongside Kirtana Chandrasekaran from Friends of the Earth International (India/Scotland), was part of a podcast questioning: What is the relationship between climate change and agrarian struggles? The podcast was presented by Professor Ruth Hall and Boaventura Mojane, CASAS member. The talk was about their work on…