Recently, Emilinah Namaganda of Utrecht University and CASAS member, alongside Kirtana Chandrasekaran from Friends of the Earth International (India/Scotland), was part of a podcast questioning: What is the relationship between climate change and agrarian struggles? The podcast was presented by Professor Ruth Hall and Boaventura Mojane, CASAS member. The talk was about their work on…
Another palm is possible: small-scale palm oil farmers exercising autonomy in northeast Colombia
New publication alert! Check out this recent article by Angela Serrano, CASAS member: Abstract: This paper investigates how some small-scale palm oil growers in northeast Colombia have managed to exercise partial autonomy from global markets while still participating in them. By comparing the varied experiences of these farmers, I find that, state-led land access and…
The Chinese Presence in Africa’s Agriculture: A Synopsis
Check out this just-published book chapter by the CASAS members George Mudimu and Boaventura Mojane. Abstract: Because of the growing Chinese presence on the continent – from agriculture to construction and mining among others – China has been accused of being Africa’s new imperialist power. But what is the evidence for this claim? In other…
Call for Applicants: 5th Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism
1- 7 August, China Agricultural University Beijing The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) ofChina Agricultural University (Beijing), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South(CASAS), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the WesternCape and the Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) at…
Rethinking ‘just transitions’ from coal: the dynamics of land and labour in anti-coal struggles
Amod Shah, CASAS` member, has a chapter in the just-released book Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. Abstract: Communities resisting large coal mining projects navigate the significant tensions between imperatives of urgent climate action and economic growth in complex and contingent ways. Drawing on empirical research in a mining region of Central-Eastern India, this paper…