We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
Author: Natacha Bruna
Natacha Bruna is a Mozambican PhD student at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague. She holds a degree in Business Administration from Universidade Politécnica in Mozambique and a Masters in Economics from Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal). She is currently part of the Political Ecology research group in ISS and her research focus lies in the area of political economy of natural resources and environment. Her PhD research focus on agrarian political economy, extractivism and climate change politics and is currently entitled “Agrarian change in the context of extractivism and climate change policies in Mozambique”. She is also affiliated to a research institution in Mozambique, namely Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR), where she works as a researcher since 2012. In OMR, she worked in research projects related to agrarian political economy, models of rural development, extractive industry and forest plantations. Her country of residence is the Netherlands, but she is currently conducting her fieldwork in Mozambique. Her email address is natachabruna89@gmail.com and her institutional email is bruna@iss.nl