I’m Mercedes Ejarque, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina and a Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). I’m a sociologist and hold a Master’s Degree in Social Research and a PhD in Social Sciences. I participated in the 2020 JPS Writeshop and became a CASAS…
Boaventura Monjane (from Mozambique) holds a PhD on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Sociology), from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. He is based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, UWC) as a postdoctoral researcher and is also a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the RLS….
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui is from Ecuador and works twofold as an academic and practitioner. She holds a M.A. and a M.S., and is a Ph.D. Student in the Food Systems Program at the University of Vermont (UVM), USA. For her dissertation, Amaya is studying collective action in the context of agroecological transition. She has worked with…
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…
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…