I’m Mercedes Ejarque, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina and a Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). I’m a sociologist and hold a Master’s Degree in Social Research and a PhD in Social Sciences. I participated in the 2020 JPS Writeshop and became a CASAS…
Who is who in CASAS? Boaventura Monjane
Boaventura Monjane (from Mozambique) holds a PhD on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Sociology), from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. He is based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, UWC) as a postdoctoral researcher and is also a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the RLS….
Who is who in CASAS? Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui is from Ecuador and works twofold as an academic and practitioner. She holds a M.A. and a M.S., and is a Ph.D. Student in the Food Systems Program at the University of Vermont (UVM), USA. For her dissertation, Amaya is studying collective action in the context of agroecological transition. She has worked with…
SOBERANÍA ALIMENTARIA Y AGROECOLOGÍA:
Contribuciones desde y para la Economía Ecológica Radical
Check out this article by Claudia I. Camacho (UAM & CASAS Member) and coauthors Alejandra Sánchez, Marlen Saldaña and Erika Carcaño in Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica. Abstract: Los movimientos por la soberanía alimentaria y el escalamiento de la agroecología, son propuestasdesde pueblos y comunidades campesinas e indígenas que aportan esperanzadoras alternativas paramejorar la calidad…
Frontier territories: Countering the green revolution legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
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…