Juan Camilo Portela, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in Spanish in “Debates en Sociología”. Abstract: This article addresses the processes of interpretation in the public sphere about the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in Colombia, and especially the way in which the protesters were considered authentic and legitimate. Based on a cultural sociology approach,…
Category: CASAS’ members publications
Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
When agribusiness is interested in organic production: the contradictions of the sugar cane sector in the South of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, have published with a colleague a paper in Portuguese in Boletim de Geografia. Abstract: As a contradictory and limited response to the various environmental and social liabilities that agribusiness- the current face of agrarian capitalism– has generated in recent decades, we are currently witnessing the emergence of organic production experiences by…
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in South Africa
Check the conversation with Andrew Bennie, CASAS’ member on food sovereignty and the land question in South Africa in Rosa Luxemburg Stifung: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/52081/the-struggle-for-food-sovereignty-in-south-africa
How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana
New publication alert! Leon Brenya Yeboah, CASAS’ member, has published with Abubakari Abdulai, Frank Kwaku Agyei & Dzigbodi Adzo Doke an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder conflicts are an important source…
Transforming food systems in the Global South: a radical approach
New publication alert! Chukwuma Ume, CASAS’ member has recently published with Andres Suarez in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Abstract: Sustainability within food systems (FS) transcends approaches that only consider FS transformation via changing agricultural practices or consumption patterns. The essence lies in addressing the root causes of current unsustainable FS and their associated social…