Estevan Coca is an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Natural Sciences at the Federal University of Alfenas, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate Geography, and a Research Associate of the Territorial Development in America Latin America and the Caribbean (TerritoriAL) Graduate Program at São Paulo State University. Estevan’s research is focused on Critical Agrarian…
A–Z of cost-effective adaptation strategies to the impact of climate change among crop farmers in West Africa
Check out this new article by NwaJesus Anthony Onyekuru, Robert Marchant, Julia M Touza, Chukwuma Ume (CASAS member), Chinedu Chiemela, Chukwemeka Onyia, Eric C Eboh, Christopher C Eze Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Changes in precipitation and temperature patterns will result in long-term declines in production and short-term crop failures. These short- and…
School food at home: Brazil’s national school food programme (PNAE) during the COVID-19 pandemic
Check out this new article by Ricardo Barbosa Jr, Estevan Coca (CASAS member), and Gabriel Soyer. School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have hindered students’ food access, particularly low-income students who rely on schools for their primary daily meals. School food programmes have adapted to pandemic conditions by providing school food at home (SF@H). We…
Who is Who in CASAS? Carol Hernández
I was part of the 2020 JPS writeshop (a fantastic experience!) and have collaborated with CASAS since then. I hold a PhD in Sociology from Portland State University and was a professor at the Department of Sociology from 2016 to 2019. Since 2021, I have been an associate researcher at the University Program of Bioethics…
Identity and Organization Processes, and Experiences of Persistence of Fairs and Markets in the Argentinean Patagonia
Check out this new article by Mercedes Ejarque (CASAS member), María Guadalupe Lamisón and María Virginia Nessi. To face increasingly exclusive development models, collective and self-managing forms of production, work and access to food have appeared. In this article, we seek to understand how identity and organizational processes contribute to the persistence of these experiences…