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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…
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Land grabbing ten years on: a Call for Applications for small research grants (deadline: 31 May, 2023)
More than a decade ago, the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) was launched as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations. A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and displacement…
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La Via Campesina at 30: a special grassroots voices collection
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, we have put together a special “grassroots voices” collection, comprising interviews with key leaders of the movement: Morgan Ody, Francisca ‘Pancha’ Rodríguez, Geum Soon Yoon, Ibrahima Coulibaly, and Paul Nicholson, as well as reflection pieces by Nettie Wiebe, Rita Calvário and Annette…
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Fondecyt postdoctoral fellowships (from the Chilean government) is now open
The call for Fondecyt postdoctoral fellowships (from the Chilean government) is now open. In the following link you can see the requirements and deadlines (in Spanish). If you know someone who is interested in conducting research on agribusiness in Central / South America/ pesticides and public health, and public policies in Chile, Grettel Navas would…