CASAS’ members Huiying Ng & Dimas D. Laksmana have published this article with Christina Maria Cecilia M. Sayson in “Grassroots. Journal of Political Ecology”. Abstract: This visual essay offers a closer look at the relations shaping nature’s transformation into a commodity. By tracing reproductive relations of struggle, death, and resurgence, we underscore how commodity production…
Tag: Agroecology
Science, movement and practice? Analytical keys to identifying the “social dimension” of agroecology
CASAS’ member Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach has published this article in Portuguese in Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura. Abstract: Although it has been agreed that agroecology can be understood as a movement, science and/or practice, this classification is insufficient in sociological terms. We sought to identify the political and ideological content of what is claimed…
From metabolic rift to food sovereignty: strengthening the socioecological justice struggle in food systems
CASAS’ members Mauricio Betancourt, Claudia I. Camacho Benavides, Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro and Pei Jiang have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: The metabolic rift concept highlights capitalism’s disruption of socioecological metabolism, extracting soil nutrients from rural areas for urban…
Building public policies for the agroecological transition of food systems: Lessons from the south
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:…
Women smallholders build an agroecology food system: the construction of empowerment and food sovereignty
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…





