Colombia
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From One River to Another
CASAS’ member Juliana Forigua has produced a Video Messages Collection with Catalina Rey-Hernández, Lieke Kiekebosch, Jhonny Vargas, Daniele Tubino de Souza, and Arcadio M. Lanz. From One River to Another is a collection of video messages from people defending the Indrayani River in India, the Magdalena River in Colombia, and the Berkel River in Germany.…
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The Political Economy of Land Grabbing and Deforestation in Times of Peace and War: Lessons from the Colombian Amazon (2016–2024)
CASAS’ member Sammy Sánchez Garavito has published this article in Spanish with Sebastián Gómez Zúñiga, Daniela Mosquera-Camacho & Daniel Ortiz Gallego in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Abstract: This article analyzes land grabbing and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon from a political economy perspective, focusing on the changes that occurred after…
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Cane Does Not Make Soup
Cane Does Not Make Soup is a film by Lorena Arias Solano (CASAS’ member), as a is part of her doctoral research project “Violent Landscapes, Sugar Plantations in Southwest Colombia”, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden. Cane Does Not Make Soup tells the story of Afro-descendant communities living surrounded by sugarcane plantations in the…
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Defend Colombia’s Agrarian Reform and the 4Rs from the far-right backlash
Help us Defend the Colombian Agrarian Reform CASAS, a network of over 400 academics from around the world, is launching a global campaign supporting Colombia’s Agrarian Reform against far-right backlash. The Colombian Agrarian Reform achieved historical gains: 280,000 ha restituted, 779,000 ha redistributed, 2 million ha formalized, and 25 peasant territories recognized. Through restitution, redistribution,…