Brazil
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From Conflict to Reparation: Challenges and Meanings of the First Collective Amnesty for Peasants in Brazil
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…
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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…
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The agrarian question and agroecology in the South and South-West of Minas Gerais
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…
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The Southern and Southwestern Minas Gerais Agroecological and Organic Production Hub as a political space for agroecological transition
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…