CASAS’ members publications
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The collective actions of agrarian socio-territorial movements and the relationship between the countryside and the cities in Brazil in 2020: the struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member has recently published this article in Portuguese in Punto Sur journal, with Leonardo Lencioni, Janaina Vinha, João Paulo Lopes, Oscar Triviño and Rangel Nascimento. Abstract: This paper discusses the socioterritorial movements’ collective action in Brazil, during the year 2020. For this, we organize and analyze the dataluta network database. In dialogue…
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Food Curtailed: Austerity, Socioeconomic Crises and Ghana’s School Feeding Programme
CASAS’ member, Dzifa Torvikey, has published a book chapter with Sylvia Ohene Marfo. Abstract: We study the effects of the programme’s discontinuation in 2020 on households, women and girls as well as the predominantly female farmers, vendors and caterers involved in the programme’s supply chain. We argue that the government’s responses exacerbated entrenched gender norms…
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Drop by drop, a sea of actions: theoretical-methodological contributions to the study of socio-spatial and socioterritorial movements of water in Brazil
CASAS’ member José Sobreiro Filho has published this article in portuguese with colleagues Nelson Gabriel, Luis Henrique Marques Rosa Buani, Miriam Moura, Ronaldo Barros Sodré, Wuelliton Felipe Peres Lima, Isabelle Avon Carolino Vanderlei & Márcia Renata Carvalho Santos in Punto Sur journal. Abstract: Territorial disputes over natural resources have marked the history of Latin America.…
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Nothing to Eat but Cherries and Apples. Politics of Wheat Subsidies in Ishkoman Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Fizza Batool, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Geographien Südasiens. Abstract: Food security is presented as a major challenge for mountain communities in the Global South. In order to address food insecurity, the Government of Pakistan introduced the policy of subsidized wheat in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) in 1970s. What has been the…