Check out this article at AGRO É FOGO by Diana Aguiar (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and CASAS member) and Mauricio Torres. From the infamous “Day of Fire” in August 2019 – when rural producers orchestrated a joint attack with fire against the forest – to the fires covering the sky of São Paulo with…
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Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique
Check out this open-access paper (2022) in the Journal of Agrarian Change by Boaventura Monjane (PLAAS & CASAS member). This article is part of a future Special Issue: Populism, Agrarian Movements and Progressive Politics. Abstract: After nearly two and a half decades with a Land Law widely considered progressive, Mozambique is preparing to revise its…
Postdoc Opportunity at PLAAS 2023-24
Dear colleagues, Professor Ruth Hall, at PLAAS (University of the Western Cape), is looking for an African woman postdoc candidate for 2023 and 2024. It’s Rands 200k a year. Focus flexibly across the four thematic SARChI workstreams and activities to be negotiated. Here are the workstreams: https://www.plaas.org.za/sarchi-chair/ If you are interested, please get in touch with Ruth…
JPS climate change articles free access
Some of the papers presented and discussed during the Climate Change & Agrarian Justice online conference have already been published in JPS, as part of the JPS Special Forum on Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. In order to help expand and deepen the conversation, we are offering 14 of these articles free access from…
Changing Conditions for Local Food Actors to Operate Towards Agroecology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Check out this open-access paper (2022) by Mercedes Ejarque (CASAS member & INTA) et al. in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Abstract: Given the novel character of disturbances caused by the pandemic in food systems, initial studies have been conducted to stress the reinforced urgent need for food systems’ transformation toward sustainability. First assessments, conducted…