New article alert! Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong and Faustina Obeng Adomaa, CASAS’ members, have published a new article in Feminist Africa. Abstract: In this article, we examine the contestations and struggles of women salt miners in Ghana within the context of the increasing privatisation of commons and enclosures. Using a qualitative approach based…
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The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in South Africa
Check the conversation with Andrew Bennie, CASAS’ member on food sovereignty and the land question in South Africa in Rosa Luxemburg Stifung: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/52081/the-struggle-for-food-sovereignty-in-south-africa
At Crossroads? Covid-19, State and The Peasantry: The Zimbabwean Case
On 30 March 2020 Zimbabwe, a country of 14.3 million people, the government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by imposing a mandatory lockdown for 21 days. This mandatory lockdown movement was only restricted to essential service providers; health care, security services and agriculture were designated as part of the essential services. Two days later the…