Andrew Bennie is a Senior Researcher in Climate Policy and Food Systems at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has extensive background in civil society research, organising and activism, related to land, agrarian struggles, climate justice, and food justice. He previously worked as a researcher, organiser and popular educator with township and…
Gabriel Bastos, from Brazil, holds Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Development, Agriculture, and Society from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Currently, he serves as a researcher at Germinal, an interdisciplinary research association that facilitates a dialogical exchange between popular and scientific knowledge, fostering an emancipatory process within popular groups and social movements. …
My name is Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach, I’m a brazilian social scientist graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP), and a PhD student in the Graduate Program of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society, at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA/UFRRJ), where I also got my masters degree. I am a researcher at the Center of Power Studies…
Ali D. Kaba is a Ph.D. student at American University. His research interests include the political economy of customary land and resource governance, with a focus on territoriality, identity, peace, conflict, and sustainability. Ali previously worked as a Program Director and Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), a Liberian-based NGO committed to transforming…
María del Rocío Juárez Nogueira is a historical anthropologist with a master´s degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies, where she is currently a doctoral student. Since then, she has worked on socio-environmental issues from a historical and structural perspective that…