Schluwa Sama

• November 1, 2020

  Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A Manifesto

  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…
• May 17, 2020

  The corona pandemic and Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan’s agriculture: Food imports, strong domestic cereal production and the resilience of small-scale farmers

  

  In Iraq, including the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI), the current official number of people infected is 2,818 with 110 people dead. A curfew had been imposed that left no freedom to circulate other than for health workers and security forces. This is lifted to a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am with some…