Chukwuma Ume, CASAS’ member, has recently published this article in the journal International Food and Agribusiness Management Review with his colleagues Kelvin Nnaemeka Nwangwu, Chinasa Sylvia Onyenekwe, Patience Ifeyinwa Opata, and Nice Nneoma. Abstract: Digital technology holds significant potential for enhancing business efficiency in agricultural marketing. However, empirical research on the use of digital technology…
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Implications of peri-urban land reform programs on urban land markets: a case study of Harare, Zimbabwe
Johannes Bhanye, CASAS’ member, has published an article with Abraham R. Matamanda, Jennilee Kohima & Elmond Bandauko in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume. The article addresses how Zimbabwe implemented the Fast-Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in the year 2000. This program has had far-reaching implications on urban development, especially on urban land markets in…
Manifesto: Justice for Nega Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe – Indigenous emergency!
Our CASAS’ member, Mariana Reinach, is working on her PhD in Brazil, in the Caramuru Catarina Paraguaçu Indigenous Land, of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe indigenous people. The community has launched a Manifiesto demanding justice for the murder of their spiritual leader Nega Pataxó. At the beginning of 2024, a spiritual leader of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe people,…
Collective Political Amnesty in Brazil: The First Formal Recognition for Peasant Populations
Class struggle manifests in various forms, including strikes, protests, and the dispute for the institutional politics. It is also expressed through several forms of daily mobilization promoted by unions, social movements, political parties, associations, and collectives. In addition to these forms, class struggle also takes place in the struggle for memory. August 23, 2024, occurred…
International Conference: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century. 10-12 October, 2023, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China (deadline: 5, May, 2023)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), JPS together with the College of Humanities and Development Studies at China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) are convening an international gathering in October in Beijing, China to critically analyze ecological…