scholarly journals Climate Change Vulnerabilities in South Asia: Prospects of Water and Food Security

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (III) ◽  
pp. 451-463
Author(s):  
Iram Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Water And Food Security

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.

scholarly journals An integrated assessment model for food security under climate change for South Asia

Heliyon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. e06707
Author(s):  
Shahzad Alvi ◽  
Roberto Roson ◽  
Martina Sartori ◽  
Faisal Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Integrated Assessment Model ◽  
Assessment Model
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