We are pleased to announce the Asia Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism 2025 1-12 July 2025, China Agricultural University, Beijing. Call for Applications The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Beijing Innovation Center for Rural Revitalization and Integrated Rural-urban Development (BIC-RRID), Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the…
Prosper Turimubumwe, CASAS’ member, has published an article with Saidi VianeyBaseka in African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences Abstract: Climate change in Africa complicates the existing problems related to improving the livelihood of rural settlers who rely on land as major capital. Drought, floods, pests, and crop diseases are among the major climate…
Diana Aguiar, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Portuguese in “Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura”. Abstract: This article analyzes how transformation of the global geography of soy and the subsequent retracing of trade routes for this commodity encounters previously established interests and speculative flows in frontier regions, generating disputes and strategies for local and regional…
CASAS’ member, Mercedes Ejarque, has just published a book review in the Journal of Agrarian Change. The book reviewed proposes a reconstruction of the history of the southernmost extremity of the continent (currently Argentinean and Chilean territories) by examining the impact of the commodification of animals (native and exotic) on the relations between society and…
Yikwab Yikwabs, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Zenodo with Usman Umoru, Arokoyo Jacob Eniola & Moses Danjum Musa. Abstract: Nigeria has been thrown into a quagmire by a vicious cycle manifested in different forms of criminalities. The appalling carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram in the north and the wanton mayhem unleashed by militants…