Gran Chaco Americano, Paraguay and land management at transnational discussión: the experience of locust infestations (1890-1952)

Abstract

Locust plagues were an environmental event in South America during the 19th and 20th centuries. The ways in which each person and social group interacted with these events varied regionally, ecologically and economically. State responses were also different. Paraguay had its region of the Chaco biome heavily affected by locusts, it was the country that least mobilized resources to combat locusts and is one of the countries that most concentrated the region of locusts in the period of remission. This article seeks to understand how the infestations occurred and how the actors of the meetings of the Permanent Inter-American Committee Anti-Acridian managed and discussed the Chaco territory when dealing with locusts.