Agrarian South Research Bulletin: December to January 2021 Issue on Revisiting the Bandung Legacy

Revisiting the Bandung Legacy

This double issue of the Research Bulletin opens up the space for a renewed debate on Bandung´s legacy and its contributions for today and forward. We have chosen to reprint the “Final Communiqué of the Asian-African conference” signed by 29 countries on 24 April 1955 in Bandung (Indonesia), both for readers that are unfamiliar with this debate.  For more click on the following link: ASN_RB_Dec-Jan_2021

Sam Moyo Research Small Grants for MA & PhD Students

2020 Sam Moyo Student Small Research Grant Call_Final The Small Research Grants program is intended to support research projects with budgets of US$2,500.00 for dissertation writing. The SSRG Program seeks to encourage emerging young African scholars from the land and agrarian disciplines and other related professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of scholarship. This program support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing new and constructive ideologies in the areas of agrarian studies, particularly in Africa. Click the following link to apply: 2020 Sam Moyo Student Small Research Grant Call_Final

 

Agrarian Summer School 2020_ Concept Note & Call for Papers

The changes within the contemporary global political economy have had an uneven impact on different regions and social groups. This unevenness arises out of historical deprivation as well as diverse manifestations of the penetration of capitalist enterprise into hitherto non-capitalist territories. Such a process of expansion and adaptation of capital to new social settings is as old as colonialism itself since the voyages of Christopher Columbus and has resulted in the simultaneous underdevelopment of the countries of the South. It has also led to a reconfiguration of ecologies and spaces by capitalists so that they could benefit and profiteer to the detriment of a large mass of oppressed ‘indigenous’ people and other subjugated races and castes. Hence, any study of this phenomena should recognise that the categories of ‘indigenous’, ‘race’ and ‘caste’ are complex and have diverse meanings across countries and continents. One of the aims of this Summer School is to explore and provide a window of analysis into these complex meanings and processes. Clink link for more details  http://aiastrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Summer-School-2020__Concept-Note-and-Call-For-Papers.pdf

Call for papers for a Symposium on Food Security, Migration and Innovation in Senegal and Zimbabwe: Lessons for Africa

Attaining food security is one of the key aspects of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 buttressed by the Science Technology and Innovation Strategy (STISA) 2024 and the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). However currently not all African countries have attained sustainable food security, given that the continent has the highest undernourishment prevalence affecting almost 21 % of the population (World Bank 2018),and Zimbabwe fall in this class with a prevalence of 47%.Read more..http://aiastrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Food-security-Migration-and-Innovation-Call-for-Papers.pdf