Soledad Castro-Vargas, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Grettel Navas, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, Yunan Xu & Daniela Ayelén Marini, CASAS’ members have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change.
Abstract: Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pesticide use, with significant growth over the past three decades. While food sovereignty and agroecology have strengthened during the same period, the pesticide complex has expanded and deepened its reach. Drawing on research in China, Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, and Bolivia, we analyze the structural drivers behind pesticide adoption, the challenges faced by farmers, the tensions between pesticide use and socioecological health impacts in rural communities, and the strategies mobilized by anti-pesticide movements. This paper intends to open a political research agenda for rethinking food sovereignty in the context of chemically dependent agriculture.
Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2549340
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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.