Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
CASAS’ member Boaventura Monjane has published this article in Tensões Mundiais in Portuguese. Abstract: This article examines how agrarian movements in Southern Africa – particularly in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa – confront the corporate model of food production and trade. It highlights La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa and the Rural Women’s Assembly…
CASAS’ member Fizza Batool shares a note from her fieldwork in Pakistan: While sitting in the Ministry of National Food Security in Islamabad, the Food Commissioner said during the interview: “There is something called food security, and there is something else too, called food sovereignty and we have to understand both of these things.” I…
CASAS’ members Amrita Sharma, Yukari Sekine, Peerzada Raouf Ahmad , Sardar Babur Hussain, Hassan Turi , Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, José Sobreiro Filho, Carol Hernández, Sergio Coronado & Yasmine Ahmed have collectively published this paper in the Journal of Peasant Studies’ Special Issue on Food sovereignty and systems change. Abstract: Historically, war-making and state-making…
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,…