Nikhil Deb, CASAS’ member, has edited the Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South with Manjusha Nair, and Glenn W. Muschert. As they established in the Preface, “we aim to establish a bold and uncompromising agenda for social justice research, praxis, and discourse in the Global South. We are on the cusp of change…
Aayushi Malhotra has published this report with her colleagues in the CGIAR Issue Brief Series for Informing COP 29. Abstract: Women can be drivers of climate change responses when solutions like climate-smart agriculture are co-designed, for better productivity, adaptation and mitigation outcomes. Inclusive climate action needs more gender-disaggregated data. Gender data gaps severely limit design…
By Muhammad Arfan, CASAS’ member The 5th International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies & Scholar-Activism took place from July 27 to August 8, 2024, in Beijing, China. This event was a collaborative effort by various institutions, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, China Agricultural University’s College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD), Beijing Innovation Center…
New publication alert! Tania Eulalia Martínez-Cruz, CASAS’ member, has just published with Levi Adelman, Luisa Castañeda Quintana and Darío Mejía-Montalvo an article in Social Sciences & Humanities Open. Abstract: Dominant narratives and policy processes addressing water insecurity, such as the Water Action Decade 2018–2028, usually neglect the power asymmetries underlying that insecurity. In this paper, we argue that the water…
New publication alert! Chukwuma Ume, CASAS’ member has recently published with Andres Suarez in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Abstract: Sustainability within food systems (FS) transcends approaches that only consider FS transformation via changing agricultural practices or consumption patterns. The essence lies in addressing the root causes of current unsustainable FS and their associated social…