Agricultural dynamics in the semi-arid Northeast region of Brazil: issues for natural resources management and territorial governance
2025
Tritsch, Isabelle | Scopel, Eric | Alves, Rafaela, da Silva | Silva Nascimento Diniz, Rousilene | Souza Linhares, Samiramisthaís | Pontes Filho, João, Dehon de Araújo | Passos Fontenele, Diogenes | Vasconcelos Júnior, Francisco, das Chagas | Mitroi, Veronica | Burte, Julien | Augusseau, Xavier | Martins, Eduardo, Sávio Passos Rodrigues | CREDA - Centre de Recherche Et de Documentation sur les Amériques - UMR 7227 (CREDA) ; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Forêts et Sociétés (UPR Forêts et Sociétés) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Agroécologie et intensification durables des cultures annuelles (UPR AIDA) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Université de Montpellier (UM) | Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos = Research Institute of Meteorology and Water Resources (FUNCEME) | Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-AgroParisTech-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II (IAV Hassan II) | Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale (UMR TETIS) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Universidade Federal do Ceará = Federal University of Ceará (UFC)
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اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]إنجليزي. Ceará State (Northeast Brazil) was recently affected by a severe multi-year drought (2012-2018) that had drastic societal consequences. The agricultural sector was particularly impacted and agricultural trajectories have evolved accordingly. The dairy sector has been strongly consolidated among family farmers, as seeming to offer greater resilience to drought than irrigated crops. However, the consequences of these important agricultural dynamics on natural resource management, and particularly water, have not been adequately studied. This study aimed to explore how agricultural trajectories have been transformed and how this has affected the sustainability of water, land, and forest resource management. It then suggests a territorial governance organization to discuss related issues and collectively try to solve them. This study emphasizes two main agricultural transformations: (i) the increase in mechanized permanent cropping systems substituting the traditional shifting agriculture system with forest fallow rotation, and (ii) increased fodder production through 'passive irrigation' in lowlands and infiltration areas around dams. These processes support a strong dynamic of individual small dam building. The main issues of these transformations in terms of natural resource management concern soil health in a regional context of high vulnerability to desertification, and the strong mobilization of water in lowlands and small individual dams. Since these dams are located upstream of the State's strategic dams, they weaken its water security and open the challenge of finding trade-offs between upstream-downstream regions, macro-micro water infrastructures and agricultural development-water supply. To contribute to meeting this challenge, three participatory governance platforms articulated from the State to the local territories are being tested in an attempt to negotiate collective trade-offs on the use of natural resources, decompartmentalize public action targeting rural territories, and promote a bottom-up approach to territorial development.
اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]الكلمات المفتاحية الخاصة بالمكنز الزراعي (أجروفوك)
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