ABSTRACT

Over the past three decades, agrarian reform areas have transformed urban and rural spaces across Brazil. Although these areas’ creation reduced inequalities and environmental problems, their residents still experience several constraints and vulnerabilities associated with water, energy, and food provision. Drawing on the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus’ critical and territorial perspectives, this paper aims to better understand the agrarian reform areas’ challenges in peri-urban interfaces towards social justice. We analyse a territory in the Northeast portion of the São Paulo State, where it is located the Sepé Tiaraju agrarian reform settlement in interface with two municipalities. We suggest that agrarian reform areas can activate a progressive and concrete environmental change at the local level where food is the key element to redefining the area’s nexus. However, socio-political and spatial dynamics involving water and energy for the sugarcane sector, the municipal government, and tense relationships among residents around food also reproduce unequal access to resources. This paper contributes to the emerging critical literature and its efforts to politicize the nexus debate, giving more nuanced views to the complex and contradictory dynamics involving environmental problems and social justice struggles.

摘要

在过去的三十年中，农业改革区改变了巴西的城乡空间。尽管这些地区的建立减少了不平等现象和环境问题，但其居民仍然遇到与水，能源和粮食供应相关的一些制约因素和脆弱性。本文借鉴水能食品（WEF）关系的批判性和地域性观点，旨在更好地理解农业改革地区在城郊结合社会正义中所面临的挑战。我们分析了圣保罗州东北部的一块领土，该领土位于与两个城市交界的塞帕·蒂亚拉茹农业改革定居点。我们建议，土地改革地区可以在地方一级促进逐步的具体环境变化，而食品是重新定义该地区联系的关键因素。但是，甘蔗业，市政府的用水和能源涉及的社会政治和空间动态以及围绕食物的居民之间的紧张关系也造成了资源获取的不平等。本文为新兴的批判性文献及其将联系辩论政治化的努力做出了贡献，对涉及环境问题和社会正义斗争的复杂而矛盾的动力提供了更为细微的看法。食物周围居民之间的紧张关系也使人们无法平等地获得资源。本文为新兴的批判性文献及其将联系辩论政治化的努力做出了贡献，对涉及环境问题和社会正义斗争的复杂而矛盾的动力提供了更为细微的看法。食物周围居民之间的紧张关系也使人们无法平等地获得资源。本文为新兴的批判性文献及其将联系辩论政治化的努力做出了贡献，对涉及环境问题和社会正义斗争的复杂而矛盾的动力提供了更为细微的看法。