José Sobreiro Filho, CASAS’ member, has published a book in Portuguese with Fernando Luiz Araújo Sobrinho, Maria do Socorro Ferreira da Silva, Aline Albuquerque Jorge, Maria Luiza Araújo Lopes, Pedro Mendonça Carvalho Santos. Abstract: This publication addresses a set of elements that contribute to understanding not only the reality of populations affected by dams in…
C.R Yadu, CASAS’ member, has published a Working Paper in CSE Working Paper. Abstract: This article examines rural transformation in India through a review of longitudinal village studies conducted over the past three decades. It argues that rural India is not undergoing structural transformation in the classical sense. While labour is steadily moving out of…
Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo has published this article in Africa Review. Abstract: This article examines how small-scale (A1 villagised model) farmers in Zimbabwe’s Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) are using social capital as a form of resilience in the context of an economic precarity. With limited state support, fiscal instability and the near absence of formal…
CASAS’ member Yunan Xu has published with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco & Tsegaye Moreda this article in the journal Globalizations. Abstract: The spectacular land rush is over, but land grabbing continues. It is likely to gain greater momentum in the near future. In this paper, we caution against conflating several key terms…
CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…