1. On the margins of soy farms: traditional populations and selective environmental policies in the Brazilian Cerrado
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Ludivine Eloy, Catherine Aubertin, Fabiano Toni, Marion Bosgiraud, Silvia Laine Borges Lúcio, Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement (UMR ART-Dev), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM), Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement (GRED), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), 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), Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] (UnB), ISTOM, 'Visões contemporâneas do cerrado e intersecção de politicas sociais e ambientais' (RESBIO)/CNPQ, CNRS INSHS: soutien à la mobilité internationale, European Project: 266710,SSH,FP7-SSH-2010-3,ENGOV(2011), and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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FORET ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,AGROPASTORALISME ,02 engineering and technology ,LUTTE CONRE LE FEU ,AIRE PROTEGEE ,Environmental policy ,DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL ,political ecology ,RESERVE NATURELLE ,SYSTEME D'INFORMATION GEOGRPAHIQUE ,Agroforestry ,05 social sciences ,Cerrado ,021107 urban & regional planning ,[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,Ground level ,INDUSTRIE ,Geography ,050703 geography ,ECOLOGIE ,Cultural Studies ,0507 social and economic geography ,POLITIQUE AGRICOLE ,LEGISLATION ,Competition (economics) ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,POLITIQUE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ,Deforestation ,fire policies ,GRANDE PROPRIETE ,GESTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ,deforestation ,Production (economics) ,soybean ,AGRICULTURE TRADITIONNELLE ,PARC NATIONAL ,SOJA ,business.industry ,PETITE PROPRIETE ,15. Life on land ,Political ecology ,Agricultural frontier ,SOCIETE TRADITIONNELLE ,13. Climate action ,Agriculture ,Anthropology ,DEFORESTATION ,business ,NORME ,environmental norms - Abstract
International audience; In the Cerrado, the expansion of soybean cultivation since the 1990s has coincided withthe strengthening of environmental regulations. We analyze how the two mainenvironmental policies – Protected Areas and the Forest Code – have played out at theground level in western Bahia state. These policies in Cerrado have not been designedto curb the expansion of this agricultural frontier. These norms have, on the contrary,accommodated this expansion because the way environmental managers selectivelychoose environmental problems and publicize them through specific informationsystems depreciates traditional fire-dependent production systems. These ‘politics ofselection’ are likely to increase competition for resources in the margins of soybeanagriculture, which is where traditional populations have now become confined.
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- 2015
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