Public policies for adapting agriculture to climate change in semi-arid...
Eric Sabourin | Lucia Marizy Ribeiro Oliveira | Frédéric Goulet | Eduardo Sávio Martins
5 Preface
Lucia Marisy Ribeiro de Oliveira, Julien Burte, Eduardo Martins, Jean Luc Battini
CHAPTER 1
7 Implementing public policies and public action for adapting to droughts in the semi-arid Northeast
Eric Sabourin
CHAPTER 2
27 Drought or just a Dry season? Describing two meanings for the same climate phenomenon
Luis Claudio Mattos, Ana Paula Ferreira and Peter Herman May
CHAPTER 3
45 Agroecology and family farming: vulnerabilities, resilience, and adaptation to climate change in the Brazilian semi-arid region
Allan Milhomens, Mário Lúcio Ávila, Eduardo de Lima Caldas
CHAPTER 4
61 Sustainable agriculture as an adaptation measure for Araripe Plaster Pole
Francislene Angelotti, Anderson Ramos de Oliveira, Vanderlise Giongo, Juliane Rafaele Alves Barros, Miguel Júlio Machado Guimarães
CHAPTER 5
77 Public policies for adaptation to prolonged drought in the Northeast: The role of PRONAF and the Crop-Insurance Program
Joacir Rufino de Aquino, Maria de Fátima Vidal, Maria Odete Alves
CHAPTER 6
99 The role of street-level bureaucrats in implementing cross-sectoral policies: combining social and water access strategies in Brazil’s semi-arid region
Patricia S. Mesquita, Carolina Milhorance, Louise Cavalcante
CHAPTER 7
117 Cross-views at the relationship between gender, water security, and adaptation: the case of cisterns for rainwater harvesting in the semi-arid regions of Paraiba and Pernambuco
Daniela Nogueira, Carlos Hiroo Saito
CHAPTER 8
135 Challenges of constructing and implementing the Agroecology and Organic Production Policy in the State of Sergipe
Flaviane Canavesi, Edson Diogo Tavares, Mário Lúcio Ávila
CHAPTER 9
151 On seeds, land, water, and public policies: stories, translations, and practices in the constitution of Casas de Sementes in Ceará
Helena Rodrigues Lopes, Claudia Job Schmitt
CHAPTER 10
167 Agroecological transition in the Mandacaru settlement, Petrolina/Pernambuco, and Brazilian semi-arid region: collective action, organic production, and socio-technical networks
Helder Ribeiro Freitas, Lúcia Marisy Souza Ribeiro de Oliveira, Rita de Cássia Rodrigues Gonçalves-Gervásio, Cristiane Moraes Marinho, Denes Dantas Vieira, Elson de Oliveira, Lucas Ricardo Souza Almeida
CHAPTER 11
183 Fartura tem de montão: Public policies and socio-ecological resilience in traditional communities of pastureland in the Sertão do São Francisco, Bahia
Denis Monteiro, Luciano Silveira, Paulo Petersen
CHAPTER 12
211 Peasants, agroecology, and territorial policy in the “dry diagonal” of the semi-arid region of Paraíba: encounters, processes, and challenges
Márcio Caniello, Mireya Valencia Perafán
229 About the authors
