Sinem Kavak (CASAS’ member) has published this article with Mine Işlar & Lennart Olsson in World Development. Abstract: This research explores the climate vulnerability of migrant farmworkers within the climate-sensitive commercial agriculture of the Mediterranean Basin, through a case study of Turkey. In Turkey a vast majority of the farmworkers belong to Kurdish and Arab…
Fizza Batool, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Geographien Südasiens. Abstract: Food security is presented as a major challenge for mountain communities in the Global South. In order to address food insecurity, the Government of Pakistan introduced the policy of subsidized wheat in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) in 1970s. What has been the…
Deniz Pelek, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Agriculture and Human Values with Cemil Yıldızcan & Ethemcan Turhan. Abstract: Migrant seasonal agricultural workers around the world constitute the backbone of labor-intensive agriculture while facing the most grim consequences of societal, economic and environmental changes from slow and rapid on-set hazards. Here we examine the…
CASAS’ member, Duygu Avci, has published this paper in English and Turkish with Fikret Adaman, Hande Paker, and Gökçe Yeniev. Abstract: In traditional land grabbing, an area is expropriated under the pretext of “common good. ”It is then typically sold or leased to for profit enterprises. You are left without your land, your home, or…
Deniz Pelek, CASAS’ member has reviewed the book “Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey:Work, Precarity, Survival” authored by Saniye Dedeoğlu in Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies. Dedeoğlu’s book seeks to understand the evolving dynamics of the labor market and gender relations in rural areas following the involvement of…