Are you an early-career scholar from the Global South? Do you work on issues linked to Critical AgrarianStudies? Would you like to get support and feedback to improve your publishing skills? Don’t think it twice and join our 4th Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism that will take place on December 5-10, 2022,…
Carol Hernandez’s new article in Geoforum on Seed Sovereignty and Conflict in Chiapas
Carol Hernandez, CASAS member, has just published “Without Food there is No Resistance: The Impact of the Zapatista Conflict on Agrobiodiversity and Seed Sovereignty in Chiapas, Mexico” with coauthors Hugo Perales and Daniel Jaffee. This paper is part of a special issue titled Agrobiodiversity Change in Violent Conflict and Post-Conflict Landscapes, coordinated by Gabriel Tamariz and Megan…
Meet the JPS Writeshop 2021 participants!
It is a great pleasure to introduce the Third Cohort of the JPS – CASAS – CODH – YARA – PLAAS Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism. After a challenging selection process, the organisers invited 67 participants, 35 women, 32 men, from 24 countries in the South, mostly PhD researchers and postdocs,…
Free Access Articles from J. of Peasant Studies 2021
The list includes papers by CASAS members who participated in past JPS writeshops! From the Journal of Peasant Studies: The Web of Science Journal Citation Reports 2021 was released on 30 June 2021. The 2-year Impact Factor of Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) is 6.4 (and its 5-year Impact Factor is 7.2.), ranking JPS 1/88 in Anthropology and 3/41 in…
Oil Palm Workers Confront a Fatal Blow Against Unions in Colombia
On November 1st, 2019, Indupalma, one of the pioneer companies in the Colombian palm oil industry, announced its voluntary dissolution. This company is not bankrupt and owns 10,000 hectares of productive oil palm crops. Why does a productive and financially-viable company decide to enter a voluntary dissolution process? In Colombia, palm oil corporations have implemented,…