CASAS’ members publications
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Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements
Soledad Castro-Vargas, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Grettel Navas, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, Yunan Xu & Daniela Ayelén Marini, CASAS’ members have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pesticide use, with significant growth over the past three…
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Illicit drug crop economies and food sovereignty
CASAS’ members Miryam Nacimento & Sinwa Naw has published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: This article explores the intersections between food sovereignty and illicit drug crop (IDC) economies, centering the experiences of coca, cannabis, and poppy growers. We argue that…
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Neoliberal Reformism and the Resilience of the Agrarian Irrigation Bureaucracy: A Case Study of Pakistan
Muhammad Arfan, CASAS’ member, has published this article in World Water Policy with Muhammad Ali, Asmat Ullah and Kamran Ansari. Abstract: In 1980, the World Bank began to promote participatory irrigation management (PIM) reforms to overcome disparities in the distribution of public irrigation water for agricultural uses. Yet, in Pakistan as in other countries, PIM…
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The landscape and conjuncture of the land rush in the Colombian Amazon: failed and pin-prick land deals
CASAS’ member Itayosara Rojas-Herrera has published this article in Globalizations. Abstract: I argue that by using the concept of the ‘land rush’, I am able to bring into the analysis two more categories of land deals in addition to corporate large-scale operational land deals, namely, non-operational or failed corporate land deals, as well as the…