Angela Serrano Zapata, CASAS’ member, has published this article with M. Sofía Luna Siachoque in Journal für Entwicklungspolitik. Abstract: This study reveals a fundamental driver for the reconfiguration of global value chains: the deliberate appropriation of unpaid women’s labour by corporations. Through 12 months of ethnographic research across different segments of the palm oil value…
Yukari Sekine, Bruno Prado and Bhoopendra Kuma are members from Food Sovereignty Coordination Committee who are representing CASAS at the 3rd Global Nyéléni Forum in Sri Lanka which is taking place from September 6th-13th, 2025. We are also delighted to share that the Working Group (which includes Jun Borras and Morgan Ody) on the engagement…
CASAS’ members Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu & Mnqobi Ngubane have published with Melanie Sommerville in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab…
CASAS’ member Sinem Kavak has produced this documentary with her colleagues from Lund University. Abstract: In the face of a changing climate and global market volatility, farmers in Colombia are increasingly adopting specialty coffee techniques. Although still a market niche, specialty coffee poses a significant economic and environmental opportunity for farmers to incorporate sustainable practices…
CASAS’ member Loveness Msofi Mgalamadzi has published this article with Masautso Chimombo in Cogent Social Sciences journal. Abstract: Land pawning, is a relatively understudied practice in Malawi’s agrarian landscape and broader land scholarship. Our research contextualizes this practice within debates of domestic and global land grabbing. Focussing on smallholder farmers, we analysed how land pawning…