CASAS’ members publications
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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…
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Imagining agri-food futures across digital divides: Agribusiness and family farmers in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has published with Adriano Pereira Santos & Rodrigo Giacopini this article in Digital Geography and Society. Abstract: The widespread, uneven, and often contradictory use of digital technologies is transforming agri-food systems. Agriculture 4.0 is prompting producers to reimagine their farming futures, particularly in terms of environmental concerns, rural exodus and labor…
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Unpaid Women’s Labour driving Value Chain Disintegration in the Colombian Palm Oil Industry
Angela Serrano Zapata, CASAS’ member, has published this article with M. Sofía Luna Siachoque in Journal für Entwicklungspolitik. Abstract: This study reveals a fundamental driver for the reconfiguration of global value chains: the deliberate appropriation of unpaid women’s labour by corporations. Through 12 months of ethnographic research across different segments of the palm oil value…
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‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
CASAS’ members Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu & Mnqobi Ngubane have published with Melanie Sommerville in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab…