Work, care and community: women in agroecological transitions

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CASAS’ member Andrea Sosa has published this article in Spanish with Daiana Perez & Mariana Palumbo in Tiempo de gestión. Abstract: In this article, we delve into the intricate dynamics of the contributions made by cisgender women within the family farming sector to agroecological transition processes. Our exploration commences by dissecting and critically examining the…

Tracking pesticides from upstream plantations to native bivalves in a tropical wetland habitat in Costa Rica

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Soledad Castro-Vargas (CASAS’ member) has published with Santiago Alvarez-Fernandez, Fernando Ramírez-Muñoz, Clemens Ruepert & M. Laura Martin-Diaz an article in Marine Pollution Bulletin. Abstract: Mangrove forests are highly productive tropical and subtropical ecosystems providing ecosystem services and supporting local livelihoods, while being influenced by contamination both from land and sea. In the tropics, high temperatures…

From metabolic rift to food sovereignty: strengthening the socioecological justice struggle in food systems

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CASAS’ members Mauricio Betancourt, Claudia I. Camacho Benavides, Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro and Pei Jiang have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: The metabolic rift concept highlights capitalism’s disruption of socioecological metabolism, extracting soil nutrients from rural areas for urban…

Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies

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CASAS’ members Claudia I. Camacho-Benavides, Grettel Navas, Fizza Batool, Lorena Rodríguez Lezica, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong & Nadya Karimasari have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Despite the intrinsic connection between food and health, industrialised global food systems produce hunger,…

Cartagena Declaration

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Within the framework of ICARRD+20, the academics and scholar-activists that participated in the Land, Life and Society Academic Coference developed the Cartagena Declaration.CASAS’ members participated in the writing of the Cartagena Declaration with representatives of other universities, research institutions and organizations from across the world.The declaration is a call for systemic transformation around land rights…