Check the conversation with Andrew Bennie, CASAS’ member on food sovereignty and the land question in South Africa in Rosa Luxemburg Stifung: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/52081/the-struggle-for-food-sovereignty-in-south-africa
Author: CASAS
The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.
How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana
New publication alert! Leon Brenya Yeboah, CASAS’ member, has published with Abubakari Abdulai, Frank Kwaku Agyei & Dzigbodi Adzo Doke an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder conflicts are an important source…
Transforming food systems in the Global South: a radical approach
New publication alert! Chukwuma Ume, CASAS’ member has recently published with Andres Suarez in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Abstract: Sustainability within food systems (FS) transcends approaches that only consider FS transformation via changing agricultural practices or consumption patterns. The essence lies in addressing the root causes of current unsustainable FS and their associated social…
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South (in Spanish)
CASAS’ Collective paper is now published in Spanish in Revista Alter-Nativa. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity…
Truth, justice and memory: human rights and transitional justice in Mexico
New publication alert! Discover the new book chapter by Isabel Güiza Gómez (CASAS member) and Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes. Abstract: In its prevailing, core understanding, transitional justice is conceived of as a range of extraordinary judicial and non-judicial mechanisms directed to redressing gross and massive human rights violation legacies in societies marked by political transition—e.g., either…