Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
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This article by Gabriel Souza Bastos[i], CASAS’ member, has originally been published in Portuguese in Boletim Memória No. 2, May 2025, a monthly outreach publication of the Research, Documentation, and Reference Center on Social Movements and Public Policies in Rural Areas (NMSPP), part of the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture, and Society…
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…
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has organised this book with Adriano Santos. Abstract: The south and south-west of Minas Gerais is known worldwide for its arabica coffee production, but the region’s agriculture goes far beyond that. Here, land disputes, struggles against agribusiness, agroecological experiments, fairs, academic events and social movements that challenge the capitalist model of…
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…
Diana Aguiar, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Portuguese in “Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura”. Abstract: This article analyzes how transformation of the global geography of soy and the subsequent retracing of trade routes for this commodity encounters previously established interests and speculative flows in frontier regions, generating disputes and strategies for local and regional…