A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil

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...

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Autores principales: Milhorance, Carolina, Le Coq, Jean-François, Sabourin, Eric, Andrieu, Nadine, Mesquita, Patricia, Cavalcante, Louise, Nogueira, Daniela
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Publicado: Informa UK Limited 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115785
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author Milhorance, Carolina
Le Coq, Jean-François
Sabourin, Eric
Andrieu, Nadine
Mesquita, Patricia
Cavalcante, Louise
Nogueira, Daniela
author_browse Andrieu, Nadine
Cavalcante, Louise
Le Coq, Jean-François
Mesquita, Patricia
Milhorance, Carolina
Nogueira, Daniela
Sabourin, Eric
author_facet Milhorance, Carolina
Le Coq, Jean-François
Sabourin, Eric
Andrieu, Nadine
Mesquita, Patricia
Cavalcante, Louise
Nogueira, Daniela
author_sort Milhorance, Carolina
collection Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace)
description 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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spelling CGSpace1157852025-02-19T13:42:29Z A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil Milhorance, Carolina Le Coq, Jean-François Sabourin, Eric Andrieu, Nadine Mesquita, Patricia Cavalcante, Louise Nogueira, Daniela climate change adaptation food security agriculture climate change households resilience 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. 2022-07-04 2021-11-02T14:35:42Z 2021-11-02T14:35:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115785 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Milhorance C, Le Coq JF, Sabourin E, Andrieu N, Mesquita P, Cavalcante L, Nogueira D. 2022. A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 20(4):675-691.
spellingShingle climate change adaptation
food security
agriculture
climate change
households
resilience
Milhorance, Carolina
Le Coq, Jean-François
Sabourin, Eric
Andrieu, Nadine
Mesquita, Patricia
Cavalcante, Louise
Nogueira, Daniela
A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil
title A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil
title_full A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil
title_fullStr A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil
title_full_unstemmed A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil
title_short A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil
title_sort policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks insights from northeast brazil
topic climate change adaptation
food security
agriculture
climate change
households
resilience
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115785
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