Antoinette Danebaï Lamana work focuses on the political economy of rural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. She currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, where she expands her research on land governance, agrarian change, and the ethics of development. Her doctoral research, conducted at…
CASAS’ member, Chukwuma Ume, has published with Stefan Wahlen, Ernst-August Nuppenau & Stéphanie Domptail in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: We investigate how a group of women smallholder farmers built a food system alongside the industrial and the corporate-state-led global agri-food system. The paper shows how the adoption of agroecological practices makes possible the…
CASAS’ member, Kennedy Manduna has published an article in Global Labour Column. The article analyses South Africa’s Expropriation Act enacted on 23 January 2025 and how it contrasts to Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy. Read the full text here: https://global-labour-university.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Manduna-South-Africa-PDF.docx.pdf
By Boaventura Monjane (CASAS’ member), associate researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape and co-founding member and Executive Director of Alternactiva (Acção Pela Emancipação Social). boa.monjane@gmail.com ** English version- Portuguese below** Between January and February of this year, I visited West Africa, dividing my time between…
Mokua Ombati, CASAS’ member, has published a chapter in the book Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South. Abstract: A revolutionary agricultural policy initiated by the British colonial government aimed to transform Kenya from a subsistence society into an economically viable nation through land adjudication, consolidation, and registration. This approach, adopted and intensified by…