To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), JPS together with the College of Humanities and Development Studies at China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) are convening an international gathering in October in Beijing, China to critically analyze ecological…
More than a decade ago, the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) was launched as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations. A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and displacement…
31 CASAS members co-authored this piece just published by the Journal of Peasant Studies in its Commentary section! It’s our contribution on a much needed debate for transforming critical agrarian studies through solidarity, scholar-activist and emancipatory agendas! Abstract: This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global…
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, we have put together a special “grassroots voices” collection, comprising interviews with key leaders of the movement: Morgan Ody, Francisca ‘Pancha’ Rodríguez, Geum Soon Yoon, Ibrahima Coulibaly, and Paul Nicholson, as well as reflection pieces by Nettie Wiebe, Rita Calvário and Annette…
María del Rocío Juárez Nogueira is a historical anthropologist with a master´s degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies, where she is currently a doctoral student. Since then, she has worked on socio-environmental issues from a historical and structural perspective that…