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Food Curtailed: Austerity, Socioeconomic Crises and Ghana’s School Feeding Programme

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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…

Drop by drop, a sea of actions: theoretical-methodological contributions to the study of socio-spatial and socioterritorial movements of water in Brazil

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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….

Nothing to Eat but Cherries and Apples. Politics of Wheat Subsidies in Ishkoman Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

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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 (G￾B) in 1970s. What has been the…

Building public policies for the agroecological transition of food systems: Lessons from the south

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Andrea Sosa, CASAS’ member, has published this article with Eric Sabourin, Carolina Milhorance, María Mercedes Patrouilleau, Stéphane Guéneau, Paulo Niederle, Claire Dedieu, Catia Grisa, Jean-François Le Coq and Sara Mercandalli in Revista Brasileira de Agroecologia. Abstract: This article presents the results of the first stage of the TAFS project (Agroecological transitions for sustainable food systems:…

Governance at the margins of the state: contextualising the spatial and temporal realities of illegal mining in contemporary South Africa

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Kennedy Manduna, CASAS’ member, has published this article in The Extractive Industries and Society journal. Abstract: This paper profiles the everyday experiences of illegal miners (zama zamas) in South Africa, with special emphasis on their efforts to govern at the margins of the state. Through deploying forms of peasant resistance against the state, zama zamas…