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 Boaventura Monjane has published this book review in South African Historical Journal. This book review states that: “In The Morality of Revolution, Benedito Luís Machava offers a groundbreaking and unsettling exploration of the carceral imagination of the Mozambican post independence state.(…) This work stands as a major contribution to Africal political history, the…
CASAS’ members Natacha Bruna & Yunan Xu have published with Saturnino Borras Jr. this article in Globalizations. Abstract: This paper argues that failed land deals are a key piece of the puzzle about global land grabbing. Co-constitutive of operational land deals, failed land deals profoundly impact social relations in affected communities and ecology, which are…
CASAS’ members Natacha Bruna & Boaventura Monjane has published with Ossi I. Ollinaho an article in Nature ecology & evolution. You can read the full text here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02665-z
Natacha Bruna and Boaventura Monjane, CASAS’ members, has written this chapter, which has been included in the book “Climate Justice and Participatory Research: building climate-resilient commons” edited by Patricia E. Perkins. This chapter seeks to highlight a new element in the rush for natural resources in countries like Mozambique: carbon. This new commodity, which is…