Andrew Bennie is a Senior Researcher in Climate Policy and Food Systems at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has extensive background in civil society research, organising and activism, related to land, agrarian struggles, climate justice, and food justice. He previously worked as a researcher, organiser and popular educator with township and…
Gabriel Bastos, from Brazil, holds Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Development, Agriculture, and Society from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Currently, he serves as a researcher at Germinal, an interdisciplinary research association that facilitates a dialogical exchange between popular and scientific knowledge, fostering an emancipatory process within popular groups and social movements. …
The latest volume in the ICAS small book series has just been released today: Borras and Franco (2023) Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles. It’s in paperback but also in Open Access ebook edition.This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best…
Chequen esta publicación por Saturnino Borras, Martha Carvajalino, Sergio Coronado (miembro de CASAS), Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín e Itayosara rojas Herrera (miembro de CASAS). Link: https://www.cinep.org.co/producto/reformar-la-reforma/ La reforma agraria vuelve a ser tema central en el debate político colombiano. Con un gobierno de izquierda por primera vez, existe la posibilidad de tomar medidas efectivas contra la concentración…
Check out this JPS article by Carol Hernández (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). How do subsistence communities conceptualize their seed sovereignty? What do peasants perceive to be the principal threats to their seed sovereignty and how do they respond to these threats?; and How do local seed sovereignty initiatives relate to the…