Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Obermaier, Martin
• Cesano, Daniele
• Corral, Thais
• Maroun, Maria Regina
• Rovere, Emilio Lèbre La
• Barata, Martha
• Wachsmann, Ulrike
• Pfliegner, Kerstin

Titel

Dryland adaptation in Northeast Brazil: Lessons from a community-based pilot project

Ist Teil von

• Field actions science reports, 2014-12

Ort / Verlag

Institut Veolia

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Family farmers in Brazil’s semi-arid region (the Sertão) are highly vulnerable to climate change. In this context, the community-based Adapta Sertão (“adapt Sertão” or “adapt the Sertão”) pilot project aims to strengthen the adaptive capacity of such families in the region of Pintadas, State of Bahia, through integration of immediate livelihood needs with community empowerment and market-based incentives. This short paper discusses the project’s main components, its results and constraints since implementation in 2006. The project is found to have contributed to rural livelihood improvement of its beneficiaries, especially where related to local capacity building. However, the impacts of the strongest drought recorded in the last 50 years continue to affect beneficiaries. CBA in semiarid Brazil may thus need to interact more broadly with those public policies, plans and programs help reduce vulnerability to climatic, social, environmental and economic stressors in general, in order to help family farmers better to sustainably adapt to future climate change.