agriculture
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Tracking pesticides from upstream plantations to native bivalves in a tropical wetland habitat in Costa Rica
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…
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Global Commodity Chains and the Pandemic: Labor-Power in Agricultural Sectors in Kenya and Chile
CASAS’ member Patricia Retamal has published this article with Lara M. Espeter in Journal of World-Systems Research Abstract: The availability of labor-power is a critical element of all commodity chains. This is especially true of labor-intensive production processes such as agriculture. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on this, as well as on many…
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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…
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The corona pandemic and Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan’s agriculture: Food imports, strong domestic cereal production and the resilience of small-scale farmers
In Iraq, including the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI), the current official number of people infected is 2,818 with 110 people dead. A curfew had been imposed that left no freedom to circulate other than for health workers and security forces. This is lifted to a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am with some…