Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: SAULO SIDARTA HENRIQUE DE BRITO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SAULO SIDARTA HENRIQUE DE BRITO
DATE: 30/07/2021
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: GOOGLE MEETS
TITLE:

Vulnerability and resilience of peasant communities in the Brazilian semiarid region to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic

KEY WORDS:

Peasantry ; Adaptive Capacity ; Livelihood resilience ; Social-ecological systems; Agroecological transition

PAGES: 46
BIG AREA: Ciências Biológicas
AREA: Ecologia
SUMMARY:

Global climate change is causing changes in many physical and biological systems at various scales and is also reflected in local livelihoods. In semi-arid regions, the effects of climate change are associated with considerable increases in the levels of aridity, frequency and intensity of droughts. This scenario represents a great challenge for human populations that depend on the natural environment to carry out agricultural and livestock activities. Recently, the shock posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the rapid environmental changes that are taking place at local and global scales, may increase the vulnerability of local livelihoods and, consequently, reduce their resilience. Thus, the aim of this study is to understand the livelihood resilience of semi-arid peasant communities in the face of impacts caused by global climate change and the recent COVID-19 pandemic. We seek to understand how the resilience to these stressors varies depending on the financial, social, human, physical and natural assets, as well as the agricultural model used and rainfall in different periods. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 96 families in three rural settlements in RN and collected data on perceived changes related to climate and COVID - 19, its drivers and possible adaptive measures. We also quantified the livelihood resilience, family income and the degree of agroecological transition. Overall, both livelihood resilience and the degree of agroecological transition were low. Families with higher levels of agroecological transition showed greater adaptive capacity to climate change, while families with higher levels of livelihood resilience had greater adaptive capacity to COVID – 19. On the other hand, the agroecological transition and resilience did not influence the variation in family income after the shocks. The integration of the results presented will allow identifying the groups most vulnerable to the shocks studied, as well as suggesting ways to increase the resilience of local livelihoods in the Brazilian semiarid region.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 936.295.320-04 - CRISTINA BALDAUF - UFERSA
Interno - 1362202 - JOSE LUIZ DE ATTAYDE
Externa à Instituição - PATRÍCIA MUNIZ DE MEDEIROS - UFAL