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…
Category: CASAS Members
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…
Who is who in CASAS? Isabel Güiza-Gómez
My name is Isabel Güiza-Gómez and I’m a PhD candidate in Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame (U.S.), a doctoral affiliate to the Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab hosted at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and a research associate to Dejusticia (Colombia). My research agenda includes rural-poor…