IDS Bulletin. (2023), Volume 54, N. 1, Feb 2023. Edited by Lídia Cabral, Sérgio Sauer and Alex Shankland, with contributions by CASAS members Anderson Antonio Silva and Karla Rosane Aguiar Oliveira. Abstract: Brazil is recognised as a world leader in the production of agri-food commodities in large, highly mechanised farms, but also as a centre…
I’m a social-economic researcher from Kenya, currently a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen within the Rights and Resilience in Kenya Project, a collaboration between Danish and Kenyan researchers. My research interests include land reforms, pastoralist resilience, governance, and the inclusion of minorities and marginalized people. My Ph.D. research…
Amaya Carrasco (CASAS member & University of Vermont) shares with us this beautiful short documentary recorded by the members of Caliata, an international initiative integrating community members, farmers, students, researchers and educators focused on agroecology, food and seed sovereignty and Indigenous knowledge preservation. The film “is ‘a window to the memory’ and to the agri-food…
Check out this article in Just Security by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) and Genshaft-Volz. “As the world looks forward from COP27, the next steps in global climate change action must center on the urgent needs of the global South. Climate change is a global emergency, and in times of emergency, careful consideration must be given…
My name is Isabel Güiza-Gómez and I’m a PhD candidate in Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame (U.S.), a doctoral affiliate to the Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab hosted at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and a research associate to Dejusticia (Colombia). My research agenda includes rural-poor…