Carol Hernández
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International Conference: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century. 10-12 October, 2023, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China (deadline: 5, May, 2023)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), JPS together with the College of Humanities and Development Studies at China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) are convening an international gathering in October in Beijing, China to critically analyze ecological…
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Land grabbing ten years on: a Call for Applications for small research grants (deadline: 31 May, 2023)
More than a decade ago, the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) was launched as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations. A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and displacement…
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La Via Campesina at 30: a special grassroots voices collection
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, we have put together a special “grassroots voices” collection, comprising interviews with key leaders of the movement: Morgan Ody, Francisca ‘Pancha’ Rodríguez, Geum Soon Yoon, Ibrahima Coulibaly, and Paul Nicholson, as well as reflection pieces by Nettie Wiebe, Rita Calvário and Annette…
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Who is who in CASAS? Rocio Juárez
María del Rocío Juárez Nogueira is a historical anthropologist with a master´s degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies, where she is currently a doctoral student. Since then, she has worked on socio-environmental issues from a historical and structural perspective that…