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…
Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti is an Argentine food sociologist specialising in political ecology and economic sociology with an emphasis on Latin American studies, concerned about the future of food systems and gender equality in transitions to sustainability. Since 2008, she has obtained numerous scholarships, grants and awards to study and conduct research in Argentina, Brazil,…