CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, CASAS’ member, has published a chapter in the book “Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems: Learning from International Case Studies” with Esther Katz, Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío & Adela Caranqui-Pintag. Abstract: Currently, worldwide, there is a rising interest in edible insect consumption. Insects constitute about 80% of the animal kingdom, and…
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Earth System Governance with her colleagues Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío, Mario A. Moncayo-Altamirano, Andrea Terán-Valdez, Gustavo Redin-Guerrero, Carlos Varela, & Stephen Posner Abstract: Pachamama, Mother Earth, faces a mass extinction threat. A radical transformation in human systems is essential, guided by equity and justice at local and…
Natalia Landivar, CASAS’ member, has published a new article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyzes the barriers that peasant associations faced to access seized land in Hacienda Las Mercedes through the Plan Tierras. I argue that the mobilization for land transited between an undemocratic state that has historically served the agrarian…