In a new book review in The Journal of Modern African Studies, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong (CASAS member) discusses the new book by Joeva Sean Rock, about food sovereignty issues in Ghana. You can access the full review by clicking here.
The complex web of land use planning, legislation and urban mobility in Maseru, Lesotho
New publication alert! Johannes Bhanye, a CASAS member, alongside Rets’epile C. Kalaoane, and Abraham R. Matamanda has just published an article in the Discover Sustainability journal. Abstract: Applying an exploratory case study design, the study analyses urban mobility along the Main North 1 Road. We argue that urban mobility in Maseru, Lesotho is compromised by…
Impact of credit access of farmers in cooperative societies on financial performance: the predictive effect of financial literacy
Chukwuma Ume, a member of CASAS, and colleagues have recently published their latest article in The International Journal of Social Economics. Abstract: The goal of this study was to determine the impact of access to credit facilities on financial performance among farmers of cooperative societies. The study also tested the predictive power of financial literacy….
Who is who in CASAS? Bosman Batubara
Bosman Batubara is an Indonesian postdoctoral researcher at Human Geography and Spatial Planning Department, University of Utrecht. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “Floods in (post-) New Order Jakarta: A political ecology of urbanization” at Human Geography, Planning, and International Development Department, University of Amsterdam and Water Governance Department at IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education…
The Food System in the (Post-)Pandemic World: Disruptions, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Alternatives
New publication alert! Atakan Büke, a CASAS member, and colleagues have just published an article in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Abstract: COVID-19 sharply exposed the vulnerabilities of capitalist-industrial agri-food relations and significantly intensified them. At the same time, we have also seen that agri-food relations can be resilient, that some…