CASAS
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Unpaid Women’s Labour driving Value Chain Disintegration in the Colombian Palm Oil Industry
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…
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CASAS at the 3rd Global Nyéléni
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…
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‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
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…
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The Beans Of/For Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Colombian Coffee Farming
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…