Andrea Sosa, CASAS’ member, has published this article with Eric Sabourin, Carolina Milhorance, María Mercedes Patrouilleau, Stéphane Guéneau, Paulo Niederle, Claire Dedieu, Catia Grisa, Jean-François Le Coq and Sara Mercandalli in Revista Brasileira de Agroecologia. Abstract: This article presents the results of the first stage of the TAFS project (Agroecological transitions for sustainable food systems:…
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 Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach has published an article in Em Tese, a journal in Portuguese. Abstract: In Brazil, many studies analyze agroecology on a local scale. However, there is a lack of sociological studies that analyze the effects of its adoption in a broader geopolitical context, and complexify the power relations present…
Lorena Rodríguez Lezica works as an assistant professor at the University of the Republic (UDELAR) in Uruguay, with tasks related to teaching, research, and outreach (extensión) focused on agrarian issues from feminist and ecological perspectives. Her research areas include family farming, agroecology, rural wage labor, and socio-environmental health in agroextractivist contexts. She holds a degree…
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese with Maria Laura Carvalho & Adriano Santos in Boletim DataLuta. Abstract: In the region of South and Southeast Minas Gerais, building agroecology evolves the protagonism of popular representations. “Bottom-up” initiatives produce political spaces for organization and social mobilization. The region is marked by the historical…