Dear colleagues, Professor Ruth Hall, at PLAAS (University of the Western Cape), is looking for an African woman postdoc candidate for 2023 and 2024. It’s Rands 200k a year. Focus flexibly across the four thematic SARChI workstreams and activities to be negotiated. Here are the workstreams: https://www.plaas.org.za/sarchi-chair/ If you are interested, please get in touch with Ruth…
Author: Carol Hernández
4th Annual Writeshop 5-10 December 2022, Cape Town
The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS), Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA), Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), and the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS, the emerging…
JPS climate change articles free access
Some of the papers presented and discussed during the Climate Change & Agrarian Justice online conference have already been published in JPS, as part of the JPS Special Forum on Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. In order to help expand and deepen the conversation, we are offering 14 of these articles free access from…
Changing Conditions for Local Food Actors to Operate Towards Agroecology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Check out this open-access paper (2022) by Mercedes Ejarque (CASAS member & INTA) et al. in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Abstract: Given the novel character of disturbances caused by the pandemic in food systems, initial studies have been conducted to stress the reinforced urgent need for food systems’ transformation toward sustainability. First assessments, conducted…
Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Conference 2022 Registration Open: 26-29 September
The Journal of Peasant Studies, the Collective of Scholar Activists from the South, TNI and PLAAS announce the international online conference on Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Dates: 26-29 September 2022 Time: 13.00 – 15.30 CAT/ CET each day Registration is now open and free! Keynote Conversations: Critical Agrarian Studies and…




