scholarly journals Facing food security and climate change adaptation in semi-arid regions: lessons from the Brazilian Food Acquisition Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Patrícia Mesquita ◽  
Carolina Milhorance
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Food Acquisition ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
Semi Arid

Family farmers of semi-arid regions are especially vulnerable to climate change, due to the reliance on rain-fed production systems and the limited capacity to cope and adapt to impacts. The Brazilian Food Acquisition Program (PAA), as an example of a food procurement program that also functions as a food-based safety net for vulnerable populations, is analysed in a context of extreme drought in the Cariri region (Ceará state, Brazil).  Limitations that prevent the full range of potential PAA benefits are examined as perceived by institutional actors involved with the program, while measures to foster the full potential positive impacts on beneficiaries are discussed. Findings indicate that more consideration of the importance of governance and institutional factors on functioning of food acquisition programs, as well as the importance of the role of climate change on this equation, are essential for program sustainability, especially in a scenario of climate change.   

scholarly journals Role of water infrastructure programs for family farmers in strengthening adaptive capacities to climate change: lessons from the Cisterns Program in Semi-arid Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Patrícia dos Santos Mesquita ◽  
Louise Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
National Level ◽  
Specific Capacity ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
Water And Food Security ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Semi Arid

The semi-arid region of Brazil, marked by low human development indicators, has historically suffered from water scarcity, being the focus of public policies to reduce socioeconomic, water, and climatic vulnerabilities for more than a century. Among the recent initiatives, the Cisterns Program stands out as an attempt to guarantee water and food security for family farmers through the construction of social technologies for water storage, such as cisterns production. Thus, the research objective was to analyse the perception of farmers and institutional actors involved with the Program about the impact of the 2011-2018 drought on the functioning of cisterns and to discuss how water infrastructure programs can improve the adaptive capacity of farmers affected by climate change. Through semi-structured interviews with institutional actors at the regional/national level and with farmers in semi-arid Brazil in the years of 2017/2018, the results indicate that access to the social technology seems to strengthen the relationship between water and food security, and the specific capacity of farmers in dealing with climatic risks. We conclude with lessons and recommendations from the Brazilian experience that can be useful for actors from other semi-arid regions involved in water infrastructure programs.

Food Security in a Changing Climate

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (4II) ◽  
pp. 815-816
Author(s):  
M. E. Tusneem
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Marginal Production ◽  
Temperature Regimes ◽  
Production Areas ◽  
Semi Arid

Agriculture sector is more vulnerable to climate change than other sectors of the economy as climate change is expected to cause higher variability in rainfall pattern, general reduction in precipitation in the arid and semi-arid regions and increase in the frequency of extreme events such as drought, floods, heat and frost. Agriculture production systems, therefore, have to cope with more variability in river water flows and temperature regimes, making food security susceptible to these variation. The less privileged people/farmers who are often located in the marginal production areas such as rainfed, coastal, and mountenace, are likely to be affected more by climate variability whether drought or floods, heat or frost. These changes in climate enhance the risk of crop failures and livestock morality thereby causing financial and economic losses and the risk of food insecurity.

scholarly journals Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitya Rao ◽  
Elaine T. Lawson ◽  
Wapula N. Raditloaneng ◽  
Divya Solomon ◽  
Margaret N. Angula
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Semi Arid

scholarly journals As Experiências da Coalizão Adapta Sertão na Disseminação de Tecnologias e Estratégias de Adaptação à Mudança Climática para o Agricultor Familiar do Semiárido Brasileiro (The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change...)

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Cesano ◽  
Emilio Lèbre La Rovere ◽  
Martin Obermaier ◽  
Thais Corral ◽  
Laise Santos da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Semi Arid

Este artigo descreve a experiência da coalizão Adapta Sertão na experimentação e disseminação de sistemas produtivos que possam tornar o agricultor familiar do Semiárido mais resiliente aos impactos da variação climática atual e da mudança do clima no futuro. Durante as experimentações, a coalizão teve que enfrentar várias barreiras ligadas à falta de integração entre políticas públicas existentes e projetos pilotos em comunidades locais. Hoje, a adaptação à mudança do clima não está sendo considerada na implementação de obras hídricas de pequeno e médio porte, que são de grande importância porque, geralmente, conseguem beneficiar as faixas de população mais pobres e mais suscetíveis aos impactos climáticos. As experiências mostram que é preciso desenvolver, com urgência, políticas públicas inovadoras que consigam integrar o acesso à água com a disseminação de tecnologias de adaptação e de sistemas produtivos mais resilientes à seca.  Palavras - chave: medidas de adaptação, agricultura familiar, semiárido, tecnologia.  The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change Adaptation Technologies and Strategies for Family Farmers in Semi Arid Brazil  ABSTRACTThis paper describes the experience of the Adapta Sertão coalition in testing and experimenting production systems that have the potential to make small farmers of semi-arid Brazil more resilient to current and future climate change impacts. During the different testing, the coalition had to overcome several barriers linked to a lack of integration between current public policies. For example, today climate change is not considered in the design and implementation of small and medium hydraulic infrastructures. This limits the benefits to the target groups (small farmers) that are more likely to be affected by climate change. The experiences show that it is urgent and necessary to develop public policies to better integrate access to water, dissemination of climate resilient technologies and implementation of production systems more adequate to the semi arid conditions.  Keywords: adaptation measures, family farming, semi-arid, technology.

Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Inland Fisheries of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-216
Author(s):  
Imefon Udo Udo ◽  
Imekan Isaac Akpan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Inland Fisheries ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Planned Adaptation ◽  
Semi Arid ◽  
Fish Yields ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Inland fisheries of arid and semi-arid regions of Africa are seriously threatened by negative impacts of climate change. Literature and several models show increase in temperature of 1.1oC in some areas. Sea level rise is projected to increase to 0.8 m by the year 2100. Fish yields have increased almost linearly by around half a million metric tons per decade over the past 60 years, while clear cyclical variations in the residuals of about 20 years' periodicity above and below the trend line have been observed. Although fisher folks, their communities, and local institutions are already constantly adapting to various forms of change, flimsiness in the wider governance and macro-economic environment has weakened the overall adaptive capacity of these regions and fishers are vulnerable to projected climate change. For significant benefits of inland fisheries to be accomplished, planned adaptation at scales from the local to the regional is very necessary.

Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Inland Fisheries of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Africa

2022 ◽  
pp. 1572-1591
Author(s):  
Imefon Udo Udo ◽  
Imekan Isaac Akpan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Inland Fisheries ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Planned Adaptation ◽  
Semi Arid ◽  
Fish Yields ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Inland fisheries of arid and semi-arid regions of Africa are seriously threatened by negative impacts of climate change. Literature and several models show increase in temperature of 1.1oC in some areas. Sea level rise is projected to increase to 0.8 m by the year 2100. Fish yields have increased almost linearly by around half a million metric tons per decade over the past 60 years, while clear cyclical variations in the residuals of about 20 years' periodicity above and below the trend line have been observed. Although fisher folks, their communities, and local institutions are already constantly adapting to various forms of change, flimsiness in the wider governance and macro-economic environment has weakened the overall adaptive capacity of these regions and fishers are vulnerable to projected climate change. For significant benefits of inland fisheries to be accomplished, planned adaptation at scales from the local to the regional is very necessary.

scholarly journals Can climate change influence agricultural GTFP in arid and semi-arid regions of Northwest China?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 837-853
Author(s):  
Jian Feng ◽  
Lingdi Zhao ◽  
Yibo Zhang ◽  
Lingxiao Sun ◽  
Xiang Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Semi Arid
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