Brazil
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Between the Human Right to Adequate Food, Food and Nutritional Security, and the Development of Food Sovereignty: Community Solidarity Kitchens as an example of access to food justice
CASAS’ member Carolina De Toledo Braga has published this chapter with Renata Pinho Studart Gomes; Pedro Henrique Izidro da Silva; David Guerra Souza; Alef Henrique Guerra Vieira in the book ‘Constitutionalism found on the street and the epistemologies of the South’. Abstract: This essay presents an analysis of the Human Right to Adequate Food (DHAA)…
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil
New Publication Alert! CASAS member Estevan Coca has just published this article with Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large-scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land…
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Activism and stories around agroecology and climate justice for new ways to inhabit the planet
CASAS’ member Bruno Prado has published this article with Helena Lopes in Global Environment. Abstract: This paper examines how activism on agroecology in Brazil contributes to climate justice by responding to climate change through territorially grounded practices. Drawing on empirical stories, it shows how agroecological movements develop locally situated strategies that address the social and…
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Who is who in CASAS: Bruno Prado
Bruno Prado is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA) at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). He works as programme coordinator in AS-PTA Agroecology and Family Farming and is a member of the Working Group in Climate Justice & Agroecology within the…