Vong Nanhthavong, CASAS’ member, has published this article with Astrid Zabel & Michael Epprecht in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Abstract: This contribution seeks to fill knowledge gaps on what kinds of biodiversity impact investment models already exist, what factors are constraining biodiversity impact finance in the Global South, and what could be done to…
Tag: Global South
Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements
Soledad Castro-Vargas, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Grettel Navas, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, Yunan Xu & Daniela Ayelén Marini, CASAS’ members have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pesticide use, with significant growth over the past three…
Illicit drug crop economies and food sovereignty
CASAS’ members Miryam Nacimento & Sinwa Naw has published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: This article explores the intersections between food sovereignty and illicit drug crop (IDC) economies, centering the experiences of coca, cannabis, and poppy growers. We argue that…
CASAS at the 3rd Global Nyéléni
Yukari Sekine, Bruno Prado and Bhoopendra Kuma are members from Food Sovereignty Coordination Committee who are representing CASAS at the 3rd Global Nyéléni Forum in Sri Lanka which is taking place from September 6th-13th, 2025. We are also delighted to share that the Working Group (which includes Jun Borras and Morgan Ody) on the engagement…
‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
CASAS’ members Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu & Mnqobi Ngubane have published with Melanie Sommerville in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab…





