Rama Salla Dieng, CASAS’ member has hosted an interview with Morgan Ody. This interview with Morgan Ody is part of a bilingual channel, created in 2016 by Rama Salla Dieng, CASAS’ member. It contains 30-minute interviews halfway between education & entertainment on current issues for the African continent. The conversations are multidisciplinary with inspiring academics,…
Boaventura Monjane, CASAS’ member, has published this article with Peter Rosset in the journal Food Studies. Abstract: Agroecology is a word with multiple definitions. Some define it as a narrow set of technologies to make farming more sustainable, while in a broader sense it is multifaceted and seen as: (a) critical thought —offering critical analysis…
Check the conversation with Andrew Bennie, CASAS’ member on food sovereignty and the land question in South Africa in Rosa Luxemburg Stifung: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/52081/the-struggle-for-food-sovereignty-in-south-africa
Carol Hernandez, CASAS member, has just published “Without Food there is No Resistance: The Impact of the Zapatista Conflict on Agrobiodiversity and Seed Sovereignty in Chiapas, Mexico” with coauthors Hugo Perales and Daniel Jaffee. This paper is part of a special issue titled Agrobiodiversity Change in Violent Conflict and Post-Conflict Landscapes, coordinated by Gabriel Tamariz and Megan…
Mexico is a diverse country and as such, each region is coping with COVID19 in different ways with the resources they have. Today, I will describe the coping mechanisms of my hometown, Tamazulapam Mixe, a little indigenous community located in the mountains of “Sierra Norte” in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many people know us as ‘the never…