DLDD and climate change

1. Stéphanie Nasuti, Diego P. Lindoso, Catherine A. Gucciardi Garcez, Marcel
Bursztyn, Izabel Ibiapina, Gabriela Litre, Raquel Fetter, Carlos Henke de
Oliveira, Saulo Rodrigues Filho
April, 2013 – Bonn

2. Source: RedeCLIMA │©S. Nasuti, 2012

3. Sub-Network: Regional Dev. & Climate
Change
Source: IBGE and sub-network RD&CC │©S. Nasuti, 2012
Photos: Raquel Fetter and Carolina Pedroso

5. Characterization of the sample
 80% rain-fed agriculture
 High dependence on climatic conditions
 Vulnerability to lack of water and drought (Bahia, Piauí,
Ceará) / excess rainfall (Seridó-RN)
 Generalized perception of changing precipitations regimes
 Perception of displacements and unpredictability
 Congruent with data collected from weather stations
Photos: Diego Lindoso, Stéphanie Nasuti, and Carolina Pedroso

6. Do family farmers have the
capacity to plan their crops?
 Little access to adequate weather forecast
 Mainly “We do the same thing every year”
Gilbués-
PI
Seridó-
RN
Juazeiro-
BA
Illiterate or poor
level of education
74% 73% 85%
No technical
assistance
95% 62% 69%

7. Responsive adaptation is observed
 Abandoning the most fragile crops (rice, cassava, corn);
adapting the size of the field;
 Selling the animals; improvising “fodder” (mixture
cassava, corn, cactus)
 Little to no storing of fodder
 Migration strategies (people and cattle)
Gilbués-PI Seridó-RN Juazeiro-BA
Abandoned a crop 54% 45% 8%
Photos: Stéphanie Nasuti

8. Conclusion
 Policies focus on reducing the symptoms of
vulnerability, not the causes of vulnerability
 Agriculture and animal breeding remains highly
vulnerable to rains conditions
 Lack of alternatives: technical, financial, cultural challenges
 Adaptation actions responsive (to extreme events),
individual/domestic scale
 Aim is to guarantee economic/food security
 Characteristic of developing nations
Gilbués-PI Seridó-RN Juazeiro-BA
Receive at least one social
benefit
95% 93% 90%

9. Policy Recommendations
 Access to appropriate technical and
meteorological information
 Alternatives to agricultural production:
 Payment for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (i.e.
Bolsa Verde “Green Grant” for the Caatinga)
 Income from (solar and wind) energy production; public
and private investments
 Poverty reduction and reduced inequalities:
 Education to combat low literacy rates; technical
training to support human capital and improve
livelihoods

10. Future steps
 Aggregating data from the 4th case study; Ceará
 Planning return visits to allow for temporal
comparisons (contingent upon securing funding)
 Preparing booklets for outreach for the
communities
 Comparisons between biomes
Photos: Stéphanie Nasuti and Carolina Pedroso

11. Thank you!
Special appreciation to:
 www.cds.unb.br
 redeclima.ccst.inpe.br
 Funding:
 Travel support: OAS
CNPq CAPES Banco do Nordeste