IDS Bulletin. (2023), Volume 54, N. 1, Feb 2023. Edited by Lídia Cabral, Sérgio Sauer and Alex Shankland, with contributions by CASAS members Anderson Antonio Silva and Karla Rosane Aguiar Oliveira. Abstract: Brazil is recognised as a world leader in the production of agri-food commodities in large, highly mechanised farms, but also as a centre…
Category: CASAS’ members publications
Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
In Addressing Climate Change, Business as Usual Is Climate Injustice
Check out this article in Just Security by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) and Genshaft-Volz. “As the world looks forward from COP27, the next steps in global climate change action must center on the urgent needs of the global South. Climate change is a global emergency, and in times of emergency, careful consideration must be given…
Rethinking the political economy of rural struggles in Turkey: Space, structures, and altered agencies
Check out this open-access article in the Journal of Agrarian Change by Sinem Kavak (Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, Sweden, & CASAS member). Abstract: By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run-of-the-river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or…
Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists
Check this article in JPS (Oct. 2022) by Rahma Hassan (Ph.D. Fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen, and CASAS member), Iben Nathan (Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen) & Karuti Kanyinga (Research Professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi). Abstract:…
Inside an enclave: the dynamics of capitalism and rural politics in a post-land reform context
Check out this paper in The Journal of Peasant Studies by George T. Mudimu (CASAS member & PLAAS) et al. Abstract: There is no doubt that Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program resulted in repeasantization. As several studies point out, it also resulted in accumulation from below by a majority of the resettled peasantry. Our…