CASAS’ members Mauricio Betancourt, Claudia I. Camacho Benavides, Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro and Pei Jiang have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: The metabolic rift concept highlights capitalism’s disruption of socioecological metabolism, extracting soil nutrients from rural areas for urban…
CASAS’ members Claudia I. Camacho-Benavides, Grettel Navas, Fizza Batool, Lorena Rodríguez Lezica, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong & Nadya Karimasari have published this article as a part of the Special Issue “Food Sovereignty and Systems Change” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Despite the intrinsic connection between food and health, industrialised global food systems produce hunger,…
Within the framework of ICARRD+20, the academics and scholar-activists that participated in the Land, Life and Society Academic Coference developed the Cartagena Declaration.CASAS’ members participated in the writing of the Cartagena Declaration with representatives of other universities, research institutions and organizations from across the world.The declaration is a call for systemic transformation around land rights…
I left Augsburg on the 20th of February, with the Bavarian winter clinging on a stubborn grey sky pressing down on the red roofs. Leaving Germany in winter always feels like leaving a world held in stasis: a world of order, schedules, and heavy, quiet introspection. It’s a world where, politically, the air feels thick…
CASAS’ members Rahma Hassan, Mercedes Ejarque, Aayushi Malhotra, Carlos Bolomey Córdova, Leon Brenya Yeboah & Jackson Wachira have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Pastoral systems are globally significant for their invaluable contributions to food systems and socio-economic and environmental…