Volume 54. Issue 1
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Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)Brazil is recognised as a world leader in the production of agri-food commodities in large, highly mechanised farms, but also as a centre of resistance movements advocating for land rights and food sovereignty. Brazil’s ... -
Notes on Contributors – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 54.1 – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado. -
Introduction: Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)As global agri-food systems come under increasing stress, debates on their future have become highly polarised, exposing fundamental differences in understandings and priorities: industrial production versus traditional ... -
Transformations of the Agricultural Frontier in Matopiba: From State Planning to the Financialisation of Land
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article explores how the agricultural frontier in Brazil is conceived and how it has been historically shaped by broader socioeconomic changes. It considers the planning process linked to the Cerrado occupation during ... -
Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Crops and Agrarian Reform
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)Matopiba’s agricultural frontier has been at the centre of political and scientific debates since its establishment in 2015. However, the impact of agribusiness expansion and intensification on land distribution in the ... -
Green Grabbing in the Matopiba Agricultural Frontier
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article discusses grilagem (land grabbing) in the Cerrado, particularly in Matopiba territory, which is seen as the newest and largest global agricultural frontier. It examines how the Rural Environmental Cadastre ... -
Brazilian Agricultural Frontier: Land Grabbing, Land Policy, and Conflicts
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article sheds light on the forms of land appropriation in the agricultural frontier regions of Brazil in line with the concepts of land and green grabbing. With less stringent environmental laws, the Cerrado presents ... -
Environmental Policy Reform and Water Grabbing in an Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)The spread of soy monoculture in the Brazilian Cerrado relies on land and water grabbing, although water appropriation is a least studied issue in the current literature. A mixed-methods approach was used to study changes ... -
Mapping Fire: The Case of Matopiba
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article examines fire as a political tool to advance the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil and proposes a methodology for working with affected communities to protect their territories. Historically, ... -
Brazilian Civil Society and South–South Cooperation: Countering the Green Revolution from Abroad
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)Having transformed its hinterland to become a major exporter of agricultural commodities, Brazil has, since the mid-2000s, set up a range of South–South cooperation (SSC) initiatives to export its agri-food policies and ... -
Glossary – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 54.1 – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado.
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