New publication alert! Dhouha Djerbi, CASAS member has just published an article in Noria Research about the Tunisian politics on food supply.

Communitarian Enterprises (CEs), referred to as Sharikat Ahlia in Arabic, have emerged as a focal point of attention in Tunisia, representing the promise of a new developmental model in a nation grappling with an economic crisis. President Kais Saied has championed these enterprises as a solution to rural poverty and landlessness, integrating them into his comprehensive agenda of alternative development, anti-corruption measures, and the pursuit of food sovereignty. This essay delves specifically into women-led CEs, examining both their potentialities and limitations. while also analyzing Saied’s alignment of women-led CEs with the political objective of achieving food sovereignty.

You can read the full article at this link: https://noria-research.com/mena/the-age-of-communitarian-enterprises-rural-women-in-kais-saieds-vision-for-alternative-development/

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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.