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…
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…
New publication alert! Claudia Oviedo-Rodriguez, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in Revista de Historia, a history journal. Abstract: This paper characterizes the evolution of Mexican coffee policies, addressing howthe state’s interest and its mechanisms for supporting coffee production have changedsignificantly over time. Three major phases of coffee policies were identified. First,during the late…
CASAS’ Collective paper is now published in Spanish in Revista Alter-Nativa. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity…
New publication alert! Discover the new book chapter by Isabel Güiza Gómez (CASAS member) and Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes. Abstract: In its prevailing, core understanding, transitional justice is conceived of as a range of extraordinary judicial and non-judicial mechanisms directed to redressing gross and massive human rights violation legacies in societies marked by political transition—e.g., either…