Check out this article by Claudia I. Camacho (UAM & CASAS Member) and coauthors Alejandra Sánchez, Marlen Saldaña and Erika Carcaño in Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica. Abstract: Los movimientos por la soberanía alimentaria y el escalamiento de la agroecología, son propuestasdesde pueblos y comunidades campesinas e indígenas que aportan esperanzadoras alternativas paramejorar la calidad…
Category: Blogs
timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.
SOBERANÍA ALIMENTARIA Y AGROECOLOGÍA:
Frontier territories: Countering the green revolution legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
IDS Bulletin. (2023), Volume 54, N. 1, Feb 2023. Edited by Lídia Cabral, Sérgio Sauer and Alex Shankland, with contributions by CASAS members Anderson Antonio Silva and Karla Rosane Aguiar Oliveira. Abstract: Brazil is recognised as a world leader in the production of agri-food commodities in large, highly mechanised farms, but also as a centre…
Who is who in CASAS? Rahma Hassan
I’m a social-economic researcher from Kenya, currently a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen within the Rights and Resilience in Kenya Project, a collaboration between Danish and Kenyan researchers. My research interests include land reforms, pastoralist resilience, governance, and the inclusion of minorities and marginalized people. My Ph.D. research…
Documentary Caliata: A window to the memory, Kichwa-Puruwá people of Ecuador
Amaya Carrasco (CASAS member & University of Vermont) shares with us this beautiful short documentary recorded by the members of Caliata, an international initiative integrating community members, farmers, students, researchers and educators focused on agroecology, food and seed sovereignty and Indigenous knowledge preservation. The film “is ‘a window to the memory’ and to the agri-food…
In Addressing Climate Change, Business as Usual Is Climate Injustice
Check out this article in Just Security by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) and Genshaft-Volz. “As the world looks forward from COP27, the next steps in global climate change action must center on the urgent needs of the global South. Climate change is a global emergency, and in times of emergency, careful consideration must be given…