Fronteira agrícola e green grabbing: apropriação digital de terras nos Cerrados Piauienses.

The article examines the intertwined strategies of land and green grabbing in Southern Piauí, focusing on how the Sistema Nacional de Cadastro Ambiental Rural (SICAR) has been used as a normative and informational instrument for the illegal appropriation of land. We analyze the overlap of rural property areas and legal reserves with the territory of the Melancias Community (PI). Primary and secondary data, obtained through fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and technical visits to communities, agricultural companies, and governmental and civil society organizations, were employed. The study concludes that land and green grabbing in Southern Piauí do not occur without land grabbing. Instead of containing the advance of Cerrado deforestation, SICAR has become a mechanism for expanding the agricultural frontier, by facilitating fraudulent land appropriation under the guise of environmental preservation and as a means for large landowners to address environmental liabilities and access public agricultural financing policies. Moreover, fraudulent land registration in SICAR has hindered the demarcation of lands belonging to traditional peoples and communities, as exemplified by the situation of the Melancias Community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]