Andrew Bennie is a Senior Researcher in Climate Policy and Food Systems at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has extensive background in civil society research, organising and activism, related to land, agrarian struggles, climate justice, and food justice. He previously worked as a researcher, organiser and popular educator with township and rural organisations around grassroots food system and economic alternatives at the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre, and was the national coordinator for the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign. He subsequently worked as the Research Coordinator at the African Centre for Biodiversity, undertaking research and advocacy as part of the broader African food sovereignty movement. Andrew has an MA in Development and Environmental Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand, and has completed his PhD on the agrarian question, collective action from below and the South African agro-food system. His research expertise are in political economy, land and agrarian studies, food systems and climate justice. He is passionate about using his capacities (including writing and photography) towards collective struggles for justice and equality.
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.