As a result of several combined factors (climate, water availability, technology, etc.), production and income generated by family farmers in the Brazilian semi-arid region are relatively low. The climate changes projected for the Brazilian semi-arid region, if confirmed, will impact regional...

Climate change is an increasingly relevant topic in academic, diplomatic and government circles. The expected impacts of climate change on cities are varied. Such impacts may include: floods and damage caused by rising sea levels in coastal cities, damage to existing urban infrastructure caused...

A considerable part of the population in the area of influence (AI) of the São Francisco Integration Program (PISF) in the states of Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará survives from agricultural production in the approximately 500 thousand agricultural establishments scattered...

To try to minimize the adverse effects of low water availability on the population and on the economy of part of the semiarid region, the Federal Government put into practice, in 2007, the São Francisco Integration Project (PISF). The PISF, known simply as the São Francisco transposition,...

Agriculture constitutes an activity intrinsically linked, in the collective imagination, to the rural world. Such economic activities are also, however, carried out in cities, and their mediations. This study aims to provide a current overview of AUP in Brazil and evaluate the challenges...

Due to local climatic characteristics, water availability in the semi-arid region, a large territory that covers more than one thousand and four hundred municipalities in Brazil, is comparatively low. Initiatives by the federal public authorities to alleviate the consequences of low availability...

Brazil is one of the countries with the greatest availability of fresh water in the world. Despite this great abundance, the resource is unevenly distributed across the territory. Equally unequal is the population distribution across Brazilian regions. On the one hand, the North region, with...

The agricultural frontier known as Matopiba, has shown considerable growth in recent years. This dynamism results from the agricultural production of grains such as soybean, corn and cotton in large properties and with use of machinery and equipment. Thus, the work measures aspects of the...

The word Matopiba refers to the region that is formed by municipalities in the frontier of the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, which in the last two decades has been rapid transformations in its dynamics of land occupation due to expansion of the agricultural activity, a...

In 2012, as a result of the Rio+20 Conference of the United Nations (UN), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created, including access to drinking water and basic sanitation (challenge 6 of the SDGs). In Brazil, the semiarid region is the region where achieving the goals of SDG 6 is...