New publication alert! Check out this recent article by Angela Serrano, CASAS member: Abstract: This paper investigates how some small-scale palm oil growers in northeast Colombia have managed to exercise partial autonomy from global markets while still participating in them. By comparing the varied experiences of these farmers, I find that, state-led land access and…
Check out this just-published book chapter by the CASAS members George Mudimu and Boaventura Mojane. Abstract: Because of the growing Chinese presence on the continent – from agriculture to construction and mining among others – China has been accused of being Africa’s new imperialist power. But what is the evidence for this claim? In other…
1- 7 August, China Agricultural University Beijing The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) ofChina Agricultural University (Beijing), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South(CASAS), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the WesternCape and the Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) at…
Amod Shah, CASAS` member, has a chapter in the just-released book Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. Abstract: Communities resisting large coal mining projects navigate the significant tensions between imperatives of urgent climate action and economic growth in complex and contingent ways. Drawing on empirical research in a mining region of Central-Eastern India, this paper…
New book just released, and prefaced by CASAS members Mercedes Ejarque, Sinem Kavak, and colleagues. ABSTRACT Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and…