CASAS’ members publications
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MST’s Arvoredo app: Family farmers and grassroots environmental data-driven governance in Brazil
CASAS’ member Estevan Coca and his colleague Ricardo Barbosa Jr. have published this article in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Abstract: The pervasive use of digital technologies in agriculture has drawn substantial critical attention, predominantly focusing on how industrial agriculture leverages digital tools and services to exert control and maximize profits across food…
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Work, care and community: women in agroecological transitions
CASAS’ member Andrea Sosa has published this article in Spanish with Daiana Perez & Mariana Palumbo in Tiempo de gestión. Abstract: In this article, we delve into the intricate dynamics of the contributions made by cisgender women within the family farming sector to agroecological transition processes. Our exploration commences by dissecting and critically examining the…
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Tracking pesticides from upstream plantations to native bivalves in a tropical wetland habitat in Costa Rica
Soledad Castro-Vargas (CASAS’ member) has published with Santiago Alvarez-Fernandez, Fernando Ramírez-Muñoz, Clemens Ruepert & M. Laura Martin-Diaz an article in Marine Pollution Bulletin. Abstract: Mangrove forests are highly productive tropical and subtropical ecosystems providing ecosystem services and supporting local livelihoods, while being influenced by contamination both from land and sea. In the tropics, high temperatures…
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From metabolic rift to food sovereignty: strengthening the socioecological justice struggle in food systems
CASAS’ members Mauricio Betancourt, Claudia I. Camacho Benavides, Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro and Pei Jiang have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: The metabolic rift concept highlights capitalism’s disruption of socioecological metabolism, extracting soil nutrients from rural areas for urban…