Author: Boaventura Monjane

Boaventura Monjane is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (working with Professor Ruth Hall). He is a fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His PhD thesis (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra) is about the agency of Agrarian Movements and their political response to Agrarian Neoliberalism in Southern Africa. His areas of interest include agrarian social movements, rural politics, agroecology, food sovereignty and climate justice.

Burkina Faso and the New Sahelian Era/ Burkina Faso e a Nova Era Saheliana

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By Boaventura Monjane (CASAS’ member), associate researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape and co-founding member and Executive Director of Alternactiva (Acção Pela Emancipação Social). boa.monjane@gmail.com ** English version- Portuguese below** Between January and February of this year, I visited West Africa, dividing my time between…

Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A Manifesto

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We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…