CASAS’ members publications
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Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector
New publication alert! Michael B. Dwyer and Vong Nanhthavong (CASAS member) have a new article in World Development titled ‘Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector’. Abstract: Under-taxation has been a prominent feature of the global land rush, figuring centrally in early concerns that transnational land deals constitute a new…
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No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya
Rahma Hassan, CASAS’ member, and colleagues have just published a new article in Nomadic People. Their article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance. Drawing on fieldwork among pastoralists living in Samburu County in…
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Al-ʿUcha: A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco
New publication alert! Fayrouz Yousfi, CASAS’ member, has published a new article in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, called “Al-ʿUcha: A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco”. In this paper, she examines how women agricultural workers mobilize for their right to fair, and fairly compensated, work. Check this article: https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-abstract/19/1/112/343820/Al-UchaA-Women-Farmworkers-Strategy-for-Gendering
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A–Z of cost-effective adaptation strategies to the impact of climate change among crop farmers in West Africa
Check out this new article by NwaJesus Anthony Onyekuru, Robert Marchant, Julia M Touza, Chukwuma Ume (CASAS member), Chinedu Chiemela, Chukwemeka Onyia, Eric C Eboh, Christopher C Eze Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Changes in precipitation and temperature patterns will result in long-term declines in production and short-term crop failures. These short- and…