Land use planning, road planning policies and watershed management in Pampa del Indio, Chaco province (Argentina)

Abstract

During the last decades, policies for territorial planning and watershed management have been implemented in Pampa del Indio, a locality in the province of Chaco, Argentina. These policies -from the linkage of government agencies and international funding agencies- are implemented in the territory with the explicit objective of increasing productivity and marketing of the agricultural and livestock sector. In this article we propose to describe a road project and a water project, both financed by the World Bank and implemented by the different levels of government in the above-mentioned locality. To do so, we will focus on the policies carried out in the territory, from a critical perspective that takes into account that both the planning and implementation of the projects in many cases tend to ignore the local issues and the rights of indigenous peoples.