New paper by former LENDEV lab member Patrice Matthews! In "Troubled Waters", Patrice shows how agricultural expansion in the Gran Chaco is leading to the marginalization of smallholders through reduced water access. Many smallholders in the Chaco critically depend on access to surface water, such as rivers, for themselves and their livestock. In the Pilcomayo basin, Patrice shows that the average distance to surface water for smallholder living in homesteads in the forest has increased a lot between 2000-2018, mostly due to agricultural expansion. Read the paper here!

In a new paper published in the Geographical Review, Yann explores the land-use history of the Pilcomayo River basin in the Paraguayan Chaco over the last century. Mobilizing the concept of "land-use regimes", he shows that the region has one through a series of distinct regimes with different logics, functions, and actors over its history. This leads to a discussion of the notion of regimes as a heuristic to discuss long-term land-use change. Check it out here!