Check out this Geoforum article by Carol Hernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). Abstract Violent conflicts are frequently associated with detrimental or neutral effects on economic, social, and environmental development; by extension, one might expect similar effects on agrobiodiversity. However, as this study suggests, the impacts of conflicts are not necessarily all…
My name is Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach, I’m a brazilian social scientist graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP), and a PhD student in the Graduate Program of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society, at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA/UFRRJ), where I also got my masters degree. I am a researcher at the Center of Power Studies…
Written by more than 30 members of the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the Global South, we want to share this piece published as part of the JPS 50th Anniversary Issue! This is an expanded version of CASAS original manifesto created in 2019 after the first JPS Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism,…
Ali D. Kaba is a Ph.D. student at American University. His research interests include the political economy of customary land and resource governance, with a focus on territoriality, identity, peace, conflict, and sustainability. Ali previously worked as a Program Director and Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), a Liberian-based NGO committed to transforming…
María del Rocío Juárez Nogueira is a historical anthropologist with a master´s degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies, where she is currently a doctoral student. Since then, she has worked on socio-environmental issues from a historical and structural perspective that…