Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Conference 2022 Registration Open: 26-29 September

The Journal of Peasant Studies, the Collective of Scholar Activists from the South, TNI and PLAAS announce the international online conference on Climate Change and Agrarian Justice

Climate Change and Agrarian Justice

Dates: 26-29 September 2022 Time: 13.00 – 15.30 CAT/ CET each day

Registration is now open and free!

Keynote Conversations:

Critical Agrarian Studies and the Politics of Climate Change Responses Sept 26th

  • Ruth Nyambura, African Ecofeminist Collective, Kenya
  • Ian Scoones, Institute for Development Studies, UK
  • Myint Zaw, journalist, activist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Myanmar
  • Antolin Huascar Flores, President of Confederación Nacional Agraria del Perú (CNA), La Via Campesina International
  • Chair: Jacobo Grajales, University of Lille, France, Journal of Peasant Studies

Diverse Impacts and Responses to Climate Change in the Rural World Sept 27th

  • Natacha Bruna, Observatório do Meio Rural, Mozambique
  • Jason Moore, Binghamton University, United States
  • Amita Baviskar, Ashoka University, India
  • Chair: Ruth Hall, Journal of Peasant Studies & PLAAS, University of the Western Cape

Agrarian Struggles and Resistance – Sept 28th

  • Beyza Üstün, HDP Ecology Commission, Turkey
  • Diana Aguiar, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
  • Boa Monjane, PLAAS, South Africa/Mozambique
  • Chair: Tania Martinez Cruz, CASAS & Université Libre de Bruxelles

Towards Agrarian Climate Justice: Strengthening Alliances for an Anti-Capitalist Approach to Climate Change – Sept 29th

  • Diana Ojeda, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
  • Mamadou Goïta, Institute for Research on Development Alternatives, Mali
  • Kasia Paprocki, London School of Economics, UK
  • Katie Sandwell, Transnational Institute, The Netherlands
  • Chair: Ricardo Jacobs, Journal of Peasant Studies and University of California, Santa Barbara

Full programme, registration and conference papers

Languages: We are making every effort to secure simultaneous translation for Spanish, French and Chinese for plenary sessions. Language interpretation will be confirmed shortly.
Host institutions: Journal of Peasant Studies, Transnational Institute, Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the Global South, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Conference fee: There is no conference fee.
Twitter: #climateagrarianjustice
Queries:climateagrarianconference@gmail.co

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Carol Hernandez holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Portland State University, U.S., and is a professor/researcher at the University Program of Bioethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her areas of interest focus on agriculture and climate change, seed sovereignty, and indigenous social movements.