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"Projeto Arizona" in Ceará, Northeast Brazil
Development Studies
The University of Arizona and the Federal University
of Ceará (UFC) have had a close collaborative relationship
since the mid-1960s. In 1996, researchers from BARA initiated an interdisciplinary
research program funded by NOAA's Human Dimensions Program. A research
partnership was established at the University between BARA, the Department
of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Latin American Studies
and in Brazil with the Department of Agricultural Economics at UFC.
The initial objective of this research was to analyze the impacts
of a climate forecasting capacity on the vulnerability of small rainfed
farmers and to assess the way in which such scientific knowledge is
used in development policy-making. After 2001, the research focused
on community-level vulnerabilities to climate variability. It combined
participatory research with a GIS mapping technique to create local
level drought mitigation plans for rural municípios in Ceará.
This local planning methodology is now being adopted throughout the
state and is designed to reduce the amount of clientilism that has
traditionally been the mechanism of resource allocation. This research
is now known among state policy-makers and University colleagues as
the "Projeto Arizona".
BARA Researchers:
Tim Finan
Don Nelson
Fernando Mayorga
Publications
2001 Finan, TJ and DR Nelson "Making
rain, making roads, making do: public and private responses to drought
in Ceará, Brazil", Climate Research 19(2): 97-108.
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0.1 MB)
2002 Lemos, MC, TJ Finan, RW Fox, DR Nelson and J. Tucker "The
use of seasonal climate forecasting in policymaking: lessons from
Northeast Brazil" Climatic Change 55(4): 479-507.
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0.2 MB)
2002 Lemos, MC, DR Nelson, TJ Finan, RW Fox, Dario Mayorga and Irles
Mayorga. The social and policy implications of seasonal forecasting:
a case study of Ceará, Northeast Brazil. NOAA Report.
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(2002-Lemos-etal-NOAA.pdf, 1.5 MB)
2003 Finan, TJ, "Climate Science and the Policy of Drought
Mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil" in S. Strauss
and B. Orlove (eds.) Weather, Climate, Culture, New York: Berg Publishers,
pp.203-216.
2005 TJ Finan, Lemos, MC, RW Fox, A Leon,
and DR Nelson Use and Usefulness: a Comparative Study of Seasonal
Climate Forecasting Systems in Drought-affected Regions of Latin
America. Final Report to NOAA.
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PDF File (2005-Finan-etal.pdf, 0.5 MB)
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