Reinventing the Forquilha Valley in Ceará, Brazil: Transforming a semi-arid territory through the introduction of a new sociotechnical irrigation system

Resilience of semi-arid rural socio-environmental systems - Crossed points of view from Brazil and Africa / Résilience des systèmes socio-environnementaux ruraux semi-arides - Regards croisés Brésil et Afrique. Coordonnateurs : Julien Burte, Eduardo SPR Martins, Marcel Kuper, Sami Bouarfa, Jean-Yves Jamin

Open Access

Issue		Cah. Agric. Volume 35, 2026 Resilience of semi-arid rural socio-environmental systems - Crossed points of view from Brazil and Africa / Résilience des systèmes socio-environnementaux ruraux semi-arides - Regards croisés Brésil et Afrique. Coordonnateurs : Julien Burte, Eduardo SPR Martins, Marcel Kuper, Sami Bouarfa, Jean-Yves Jamin


Article Number		10
Number of page(s)		13
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/cagri/2025042
Published online		23 avril 2026

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