Agroecology
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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History of agroecology from the cores to the peripheries: genealogy, disputes and transformations
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…