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In Chile’s Petorca province, a combination of climate change and water acquisitions by large agribusiness has put a strain on an already overwhelmed water system, forcing many residents to leave or buy water at high prices. “In a context of climate change and global water scarcity, agribusiness and investors are seeing access to water as a major asset and are increasingly targeting land with freshwater and coastal access, as well as forests, aiming to rapidly extract value from these resources,” Sofía Monsalve Suárez, a co-author of the IPES-Food report and panel expert at the think tank, told Mongabay.
Water grabs are therefore a huge concern, Monsalve Suárez said, “as they take scarce resources away from local farmers and reinforce the intensive farming practices that are contributing to water scarcity and land degradation.”from other sources. Water has been hard to come by in Chile for a long time. But in recent years the shortages have been especially severe because of the
The privatization of Chile’s water resources has become a huge problem for small-scale campesino farmers like Catrileo, who say the“Nothing is like it was before all the extractivism existed and these companies came and bought all the water,” she said. “We could produce food all year round and now it is no longer possible.”own more water rightsthe area.
In 2020, researchers at Chile’s University of the Americas published a study on inequality in the distribution of water in Chile. They concluded thatown 79.02% of the water. Chile’s water is owned by the productive sector, with more than 90% in the hands of agribusiness and mining.