Check out this article at AGRO É FOGO by Diana Aguiar (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and CASAS member) and Mauricio Torres. From the infamous “Day of Fire” in August 2019 – when rural producers orchestrated a joint attack with fire against the forest – to the fires covering the sky of São Paulo with…
Check out this open-access paper (2022) in the Journal of Agrarian Change by Boaventura Monjane (PLAAS & CASAS member). This article is part of a future Special Issue: Populism, Agrarian Movements and Progressive Politics. Abstract: After nearly two and a half decades with a Land Law widely considered progressive, Mozambique is preparing to revise its…
Purpose To inform the Human Rights Council report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, focusing on the nature, degree, and cause of violence present in food systems. Key questions and types of input/comments sought For more information: https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/call-input-violence-and-right-food
Dear colleagues, Professor Ruth Hall, at PLAAS (University of the Western Cape), is looking for an African woman postdoc candidate for 2023 and 2024. It’s Rands 200k a year. Focus flexibly across the four thematic SARChI workstreams and activities to be negotiated. Here are the workstreams: https://www.plaas.org.za/sarchi-chair/ If you are interested, please get in touch with Ruth…
The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS), Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA), Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), and the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS, the emerging…