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Author: Carol Hernández
Carol Hernandez holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Portland State University, U.S., and is a professor/researcher at the University Program of Bioethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her areas of interest focus on agriculture and climate change, seed sovereignty, and indigenous social movements.
Rethinking the political economy of rural struggles in Turkey: Space, structures, and altered agencies
Check out this open-access article in the Journal of Agrarian Change by Sinem Kavak (Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, Sweden, & CASAS member). Abstract: By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run-of-the-river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or…
Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists
Check this article in JPS (Oct. 2022) by Rahma Hassan (Ph.D. Fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen, and CASAS member), Iben Nathan (Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen) & Karuti Kanyinga (Research Professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi). Abstract:…
Inside an enclave: the dynamics of capitalism and rural politics in a post-land reform context
Check out this paper in The Journal of Peasant Studies by George T. Mudimu (CASAS member & PLAAS) et al. Abstract: There is no doubt that Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program resulted in repeasantization. As several studies point out, it also resulted in accumulation from below by a majority of the resettled peasantry. Our…
The role of custom farming in agribusiness expansion in Argentina
Check out this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies by Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti ( CONICET & CASAS member). 2021. Abstract: This article aims to examine the role of custom farming in the expansion of the agribusiness model in Argentina, and more specifically, of machinery contractors incorporated into productive ‘networks’ led by large-scale sowing…