CASAS’ members Amrita Sharma, Yukari Sekine, Peerzada Raouf Ahmad , Sardar Babur Hussain, Hassan Turi , Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, José Sobreiro Filho, Carol Hernández, Sergio Coronado & Yasmine Ahmed have collectively published this paper in the Journal of Peasant Studies’ Special Issue on Food sovereignty and systems change.
Abstract:
Historically, war-making and state-making have facilitated resource extraction and capital expansion through colonialism and global food regimes. Weaponization and financialization of food systems perpetuate rural vulnerability amidst violent conflicts, undermining food sovereignty. Yet, despite territorializing logic of state and capital, sovereignty can also emerge ‘from below’ in relational and decentralized ways in contexts of war through insurgent everyday territorialities. Adopting a scholar-activist approach and drawing on experiences from Kashmir, Pakistan, Palestine, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Lebanon, Yemen, and Egypt, we propose the concept of ‘insurgent food sovereignty’ and reflect on building food sovereignty in contexts of war and violence.
Read their full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2026.2617431
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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.