A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil
2022
Milhorance, Carolina | Le Coq, Jean-François | Sabourin, Eric | Andrieu, Nadine | Mesquita, Patrícia | Cavalcante, Louise | Nogueira, Daniela | Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement (UMR ART-Dev) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) [Cali] ; Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) [Rome] (Alliance) ; Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR)-Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR) | Universidade de Brasilia = University of Brasilia [Brasília] (UnB) | Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation (UMR Innovation) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR) | This work was supported by the Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie [ARTIMIX N° ANR-17-CE03-0005]; Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie [TYPOCLIM ANR-16-IDEX-0006]; Brazil’s CNPq/Capes/FAPDF [INCT no 16-2014 ODISSEIA]. | ANR-16-IDEX-0006,MUSE,MUSE(2016)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for a diversity of policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of comparable metrics are challenges that hinder the assessment of progress toward policy goals. This study draws on a policy mix approach to analyze adaptation efforts at the subnational level. It examines the complex pathways by which rural households in Northeast Brazil build resilience capacities and deal with drought with policy support. Particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of policy mixes composed of climate-related and broader development instruments as well as on the coordination of these instruments in the mix. The resilience of households benefiting from different instrument mixes is examined, and the results show a trend toward an intermediary value for our composite resilience metric highlighting the adoption of coping rather than transformative adaptive strategies. However, changing these trends toward enhanced resilience pathways depends on the improved implementation of the policy mixes and on political factors that include administrative issues, but also coordination and negotiation among policy actors.
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