Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
CASAS convenes special issues in journals which seek to discuss current issues in critical agrarian studies in dialogue with social movements.
Our most recent special issue, Food Sovereignty and Systems Change, is a Forum published in the Journal of Peasant Studies which accompanies the Nyeleni process to strengthen food sovereignty struggles around the world.
These are the first seven papers:
Sharma, A., Sekine, Y., Ahmad, P. R., Hussain, S. B., Turi, H., Belay, M., … Ahmed, Y. (2026). Violent conflict, capitalism and insurgent food sovereignty. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2026.2617431
Betancourt, M., Camacho Benavides, C. I., Gutiérrez Navarro, A., & Jiang, P. (2026). From metabolic rift to food sovereignty: strengthening the socioecological justice struggle in food systems. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2026.2617440
Hassan, R., Ejarque, M., Malhotra, A., Córdova, C. B., Yeboah, L. B., & Wachira, J. (2026). Pastoralism and food sovereignty: struggles for land, livelihoods and recognition. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2584781
Camacho-Benavides, C. I., Navas, G., Batool, F., Rodríguez Lezica, L., Gyapong, A. Y., & Karimasari, N. (2026). Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2026.2617438
Castro-Vargas, S., Hernández Rodríguez, C., Navas, G., Castañón Ballivián, E., Xu, Y., & Marini, D. A. (2025). Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2549340
CASAS’ members Amrita Sharma, Yukari Sekine, Peerzada Raouf Ahmad , Sardar Babur Hussain, Hassan Turi , Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, José Sobreiro Filho, Carol Hernández, Sergio Coronado & Yasmine Ahmed have collectively published this paper in the Journal of Peasant Studies’ Special Issue on Food sovereignty and systems change. Abstract: Historically, war-making and state-making…
CASAS’ members Mauricio Betancourt, Claudia I. Camacho Benavides, Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro and Pei Jiang have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: The metabolic rift concept highlights capitalism’s disruption of socioecological metabolism, extracting soil nutrients from rural areas for urban…
CASAS’ members Claudia I. Camacho-Benavides, Grettel Navas, Fizza Batool, Lorena Rodríguez Lezica, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong & Nadya Karimasari have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Despite the intrinsic connection between food and health, industrialised global food systems produce hunger,…
CASAS’ members Rahma Hassan, Mercedes Ejarque, Aayushi Malhotra, Carlos Bolomey Córdova, Leon Brenya Yeboah & Jackson Wachira have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Pastoral systems are globally significant for their invaluable contributions to food systems and socio-economic and environmental…
Soledad Castro-Vargas, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Grettel Navas, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, Yunan Xu & Daniela Ayelén Marini, CASAS’ members have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pesticide use, with significant growth over the past three…