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…
Category: CASAS’ members publications
Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
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…
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…
El problema del “expertise” y la necesidad de crear dialogos interculturales en desarrollo internacional
This opinion article was written for LASA Forum in Spanish, a version in English will come soon “the problem with expertise and the need to create intercultural in international development”. This reflection is based on the author’s experiences for more than 10 years working for different international development organisations on Indigenous issues. Click below to…
Carol Hernandez’s new article in Geoforum on Seed Sovereignty and Conflict in Chiapas
Carol Hernandez, CASAS member, has just published “Without Food there is No Resistance: The Impact of the Zapatista Conflict on Agrobiodiversity and Seed Sovereignty in Chiapas, Mexico” with coauthors Hugo Perales and Daniel Jaffee. This paper is part of a special issue titled Agrobiodiversity Change in Violent Conflict and Post-Conflict Landscapes, coordinated by Gabriel Tamariz and Megan…