Skip to content
Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Who is who in CASAS?
  • Resources
    • CASAS’ members publications
    • ICAS Books Series
  • Writeshops
  • Contacts
  • Network
Menu

Category: Blogs

timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.

Rural Transformation in India: What can we learn from village studies?

Posted on January 22, 2026January 16, 2026 by CASAS

C.R Yadu, CASAS’ member, has published a Working Paper in CSE Working Paper. Abstract: This article examines rural transformation in India through a review of longitudinal village studies conducted over the past three decades. It argues that rural India is not undergoing structural transformation in the classical sense. While labour is steadily moving out of…

Navigating Economic Challenges. The Role of Social Capital in Economic Challenges among Small-Scale Farmers in Zimbabwe

Posted on January 19, 2026January 16, 2026 by CASAS

Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo has published this article in Africa Review. Abstract: This article examines how small-scale (A1 villagised model) farmers in Zimbabwe’s Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) are using social capital as a form of resilience in the context of an economic precarity. With limited state support, fiscal instability and the near absence of formal…

Pastoralism and food sovereignty: struggles for land, livelihoods and recognition

Posted on January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 by CASAS

CASAS’ members Rahma Hassan, Mercedes Ejarque, Aayushi Malhotra, Carlos Bolomey Córdova, Leon Brenya Yeboah & Jackson Wachira have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Pastoral systems are globally significant for their invaluable contributions to food systems and socio-economic and environmental…

Epistemic Erasure in Participatory Research

Posted on December 20, 2025December 16, 2025 by CASAS

CASAS’ member Dimas D Laksmana has published this chapter in the book “Revisiting Reflexivity Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond”. Abstract: Why is reflexivity needed to transform coloniality in participatory research? In this chapter I critically reflect on my shifting positionalities as an Indonesian field researcher and a doctoral researcher in Germany to argue that…

Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements

Posted on October 9, 2025January 6, 2026 by CASAS

Soledad Castro-Vargas, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Grettel Navas, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, Yunan Xu & Daniela Ayelén Marini, CASAS’ members have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pesticide use, with significant growth over the past three…

Posts pagination

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 31
  • Next

Recent Posts

  • Talking Indonesia: Indonesian ecological thinking
  • Radical ecological economics: A paradigm from the global south
  • The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
  • Painful hopes? The health and well-being impacts of land expropriation in Chinese villages
  • Responsiveness of urban land administration systems in managing wetlands in the rapidly urbanizing Bujumbura city, Burundi

Categories

  • Blogs (152)
  • CASAS Members (36)
  • Multimedia (4)
  • News (168)
  • Resources (262)
    • CASAS' members publications (237)
  • Who is who in CASAS? (38)
  • Writeshops (9)

Archives

  • March 2026 (3)
  • February 2026 (7)
  • January 2026 (11)
  • December 2025 (7)
  • November 2025 (12)
  • October 2025 (9)
  • September 2025 (9)
  • August 2025 (7)
  • July 2025 (7)
  • June 2025 (9)
  • May 2025 (13)
  • April 2025 (7)
  • March 2025 (12)
  • February 2025 (15)
  • January 2025 (12)
  • December 2024 (10)
  • November 2024 (7)
  • October 2024 (8)
  • September 2024 (8)
  • August 2024 (8)
  • July 2024 (9)
  • June 2024 (8)
  • May 2024 (12)
  • April 2024 (5)
  • March 2024 (7)
  • February 2024 (9)
  • January 2024 (3)
  • December 2023 (13)
  • November 2023 (4)
  • October 2023 (3)
  • September 2023 (14)
  • August 2023 (2)
  • July 2023 (12)
  • May 2023 (5)
  • April 2023 (9)
  • March 2023 (5)
  • February 2023 (10)
  • January 2023 (7)
  • December 2022 (2)
  • November 2022 (7)
  • October 2022 (3)
  • September 2022 (2)
  • August 2022 (3)
  • May 2022 (2)
  • February 2022 (1)
  • July 2021 (2)
  • April 2021 (3)
  • March 2021 (3)
  • February 2021 (2)
  • January 2021 (1)
  • December 2020 (1)
  • November 2020 (4)
  • October 2020 (3)
  • August 2020 (4)
  • July 2020 (1)
  • June 2020 (3)
  • May 2020 (4)
  • April 2020 (5)

Recent Comments

  • Mercedes Ejarque on Call for applicants: Writeshop 2026
  • tranquil865a3fc7cd on Call for applicants: Writeshop 2026
  • Important new launch: CASAS Research Talks – Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South on Who is who in CASAS? George T. Mudimu
  • El acaparamiento de agua por parte de la industria alimentaria deja a las comunidades sin una gota | afriKando on Agrarian workers’ long struggle for labor justice in Peru: progress and an uncertain future
  • Mercedes Ejarque on Call for Applicants: 5th Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism

Tags

Africa agribusiness agriculture Agroecology Argentina Asia authoritarianism Bolivia Brazil Chile China climate change COHD collective action Colombia conflict COVID-19 Critical Agrarian Studies Development Studies Ecuador Extractivism food sovereignty gender Global South India Indonesia JPS land grabbing Land reform land rush Latin-america mexico pandemic pastoralism political ecology scholar-activism Social Movements social reproduction South Africa South America sustainability Turkey Violence writeshop Zimbabwe

Connect with CASASouth

RSSTwitterFacebook

Subscribe to CASASOUTH by Email

Subscribe to casasouth.org by Email

CASASouth Facebook

CASASouth Facebook
Tweets by Casas_South

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
©2026 Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South | Built using WordPress and Responsive Blogily theme by Superb