Environmental Policy Reform and Water Grabbing in an Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado
dc.contributor.author | Silva, Andréa Leme da | |
dc.contributor.author | Eloy, Ludivine | |
dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, Karla | |
dc.contributor.author | Coelho Filho, Osmar | |
dc.contributor.author | Santos, Marcos Rogério Beltrão dos | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Brazil | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-01T14:59:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-01T14:59:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-02-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Silva, A.L. da.; Eloy, L.; Oliveira, K.R.A.; Filho, O.C. and Santos, M.R.B. dos (2023) 'Environmental Policy Reform and Water Grabbing in an Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado', IDS Bulletin 54.1: 89–106, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2023.107 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-5436 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17852 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 in water use in western Bahia and the evolution of water and environmental standards over the last 20 years. The results show that the deregulation of environmental laws by the Bahia state Institute for the Environment and Water Resources (Instituto do Meio Ambiente e Recursos Hidricos, INEMA) has facilitated deforestation and water grabbing for large-scale irrigation by industrial agriculture. The social dynamics of struggles and resistance to this process was also analysed. The results show that water appropriation in the neoliberal agricultural frontiers of the Cerrado has changed not only water use and flows but also water governance systems, flows of power, and the representations that underpin them. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshops grant, ID 2019-RLWK11-10177 | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF), Brazil | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | British Council | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | UK Economic and Social Research Council, ID ES/R00658X/1 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;54.1 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Agriculture | en |
dc.subject | Environment | en |
dc.subject | Governance | en |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en |
dc.subject | Rights | en |
dc.subject | Water | en |
dc.title | Environmental Policy Reform and Water Grabbing in an Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Rural Futures | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2023.107 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-02-06 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.19088/1968-2023.107 | en |
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