CASAS’ members Miryam Nacimento & Sinwa Naw has published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change.
Abstract: This article explores the intersections between food sovereignty and illicit drug crop (IDC) economies, centering the experiences of coca, cannabis, and poppy growers. We argue that these economies open important possibilities for food-sovereign alternatives to emerge. These possibilities arise from the ways IDC economies disrupt the logics of agrarian capitalism – even as they simultaneously deepen its contradictions. Through empirical cases, we demonstrate how IDCs reveal the structural terrain the food sovereignty movement must navigate and transform – particularly across its six foundational pillars. Therefore, we invite a reimagining of IDC cultivation as a generative site of critical reflection, and systemic change.
Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2551718
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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.