Agriculture, Environment and Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Underscoring Agribusiness Failures, Environmental Controversies, and Growing Food Uncertainties

   • Antonio A. R. Ioris

   Pages 1-31

3. Water Governance and Agricultural Management: Collaboratively Dealing with Complex Policy Problems

   • Robert D. Fish, Antonio A. R. Ioris, Nigel M. Watson

   Pages 33-58

4. Revisiting Food Studies from a Political Ecology Perspective: Lessons from Mediterranean Agri-Food Systems

   • Ana Moragues-Faus

   Pages 59-90

5. On the Climate of Scarcity and Crisis in the Rainfed Drylands of India

   • Zareen P. Bharucha

   Pages 91-121

6. Water, Land, Socioterritorial Movements, Labour, and Capital: Territorial Disputes and Conflictuality in Brazil

   • José Sobreiro Filho, Bernardo M. Fernandes, Tassio B. Cunha

   Pages 123-148

7. Environmental Impacts of Fruit Production in Brazil

   • Diana M. S. Feliciano

   Pages 149-179

8. Water Incorporated in Agricultural Production: Water Balance Considerations

   • Renato de Toledo Peres, José Gilberto de Souza

   Pages 181-195

9. Politics of Scale and Water Governance in the Upper Xingu River Basin, Brazil

   • Vanessa L. Empinotti

   Pages 197-219

10. Controversial Frontiers of Agricultural Development and Environmental Change

    • Antonio A. R. Ioris

    Pages 221-250

11. Back Matter

    Pages 251-264

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This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes and the impacts of global agri-food chains. The various chapters include conceptual and empirical material from research carried out in Brazil, India and Europe. The assessment takes into account the dilemmas faced by farmers, companies, policy-makers and the international community related to growing food demand, water scarcity and environmental degradation. The book also questions most government reactions to those problems that tend to reproduce old, productivist approaches and are normally under the powerful influence of global corporations, mega-supermarkets and investment funds. Its overall message is that the trajectory of agriculture, rural development and environmental management are integralelements of the broader search for justice and novel socio-ecological thinking.

• agri-food sector
• water management
• environmental management
• water policy
• political ecology
• food security
• energy security
• Agriculture
• Natural Resource Management
• climate change

• Lecturer in Environment and Society, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Antonio A.R Ioris

Antonio A. R. Ioris is Lecturer in Environment and Society and Director of the MSc in Environment and Development at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a political geographer and agricultural engineer and is an international scholar with an extensive research portfolio and numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Recent books include Water, State and the City (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).

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