Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Crops and Agrarian Reform
dc.contributor.author | Coca, Estevan | |
dc.contributor.author | Soyer, Gabriel | |
dc.contributor.author | Barbosa Jr, Ricardo | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Brazil | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-01T15:56:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-01T15:56:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-02-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Coca, E.; Soyer, G. and Barbosa Jr, R. (2023) 'Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Crops and Agrarian Reform', IDS Bulletin 54.1: 33–56, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2023.104 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-5436 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17855 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 region has yet to be studied. How has the establishment of Matopiba affected commodity crop production and agrarian reform in the region? This article analyses historical trends in soybean and corn production, and recent developments across Matopiba microregions. These are then juxtaposed with data on agrarian reform at microregion level. The findings help to clarify the ways in which agricultural frontier expansion has been reliant on government support and reveal conflicting agricultural development at work in Matopiba. While commodity crop production has increased in Matopiba as expected, agrarian reform has halted. The few agrarian reform settlements that have been created are in areas with lower agricultural potential within the limits of Matopiba’s frontier. | 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 | Politics and Power | en |
dc.subject | Security and Conflict | en |
dc.subject | Trade | en |
dc.title | Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Crops and Agrarian Reform | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Rural Futures | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2023.104 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-02-06 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.19088/1968-2023.104 | en |
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