It is a great pleasure to introduce the Third Cohort of the JPS – CASAS – CODH – YARA – PLAAS Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism. After a challenging selection process, the organisers invited 67 participants, 35 women, 32 men, from 24 countries in the South, mostly PhD researchers and postdocs,…
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Special Issue: New Insights on Land Grabs in the BRICS and Global South
Guested edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Ben M. McKay and Juan Liu The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the “global land grab”, and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international…
JPS 2020 Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism
The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS), Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA), Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), and the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Studies Scholars – CASAS (the…
Moments in Beijing, July 2019
The 2019 JPS-COHD writeshop was organized on 1-7 July in Beijing. After the writeshop, the attendees formed the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Scholars and drafted “Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A manifesto”.