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,…
Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2
Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2Global food regimes and ChinaWednesday, 28 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Amsterdam (CET) The second episode in Agrarian Conversations webinar series will be on “Global food regimes and China”. What relationship does China have to current food regime transitioning, with the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption of global food commodities, and the…
JPS Forum on India’s Agrarian Question: Class, Caste and Agrarian Change
Jens Lerche (SOAS, London), Surinder Jodhka (JNU), and Satendra Kumar (Inst. of Advanced Studies, Shimla), in conversation with Michael Levien (Johns Hopkins University). The Forum is organised by the Journal of Peasant Studies in partnership with the Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, and the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
Journal of Peasant Studies 3rd Annual Writeshop-Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism 2021
Call for ApplicationsThe third JPS Annual Writeshop-Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism for PhD students and young researchers is looking for approximately 30-40 participants. This third JPS Annual Writeshop-Workshop is for PhD students and young researchers (up to 5 years from PhD completion) who are based in, or are originally from, the Global South. Due to the global…
Agrarian workers’ long struggle for labor justice in Peru: progress and an uncertain future
In December 2020, agrarian workers laboring for different agro-export companies in various coastal areas in Peru organized protests which soon spread out to multiple regions in the country. They demanded new labor regulations able to guarantee better working conditions and real salary increases. As conversations with state authorities stalled, manifestations continued throughout the month with…