Private adaptation in semi-arid lands: a tailored approach to ‘leave no one behind’

Gannon, Kate Elizabeth; Crick, Florence; Atela, Joanes; Babagaliyeva, Zhanna; Batool, Samavia; Bedelian, Claire; Carabine, Elizabeth; Conway, Declan; Diop, Mamadou; Fankhauser, Samuel; Jobbins, Guy; Ludi, Eva; Qaisrani, Ayesha; Rouhaud, Estelle; Simonet, Catherine; Suleri, Abid Qaiyum; Wade, Cheikh Tidiane

doi:10.1017/sus.2019.26

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“…More broadly this research highlights that MSMEs cannot respond effectively to climate risk alone, signalling an important role for national governments in SSA, along with their development partners and civil society, to play a wider role in providing enabling conditions and policies that support private sector adaptation to extreme climate events and associated resource disruption (c.f. Gannon et al , 2018). Results in this paper suggest a varied and uneven distribution of impacts experienced by businesses.…”

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Business experience of floods and drought-related water and electricity supply disruption in three cities in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2015/2016 El Niño

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Non-technical summaryThe El Niño event in 2015/2016 was one of the strongest since at least 1950. Through surveys and interviews with key informants, we found businesses in the capital cities of Zambia, Botswana and Kenya experienced major disruption to their activities from El Niño related hydroelectric load shedding, water supply disruption and flooding, respectively. Yet, during the 2015/2016 El Niño, fluctuations in precipitation were not extreme considering the strength of the El Niño event. Results therefore highlight that even fairly moderate precipitation anomalies can contribute to major disruption to economic activity. Addressing the risk of disruption – and supporting the private sector to adapt – is a development priority.

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Business experience of floods and drought-related water and electricity supply disruption in three cities in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2015/2016 El Niño

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“…Semi-Arid Lands, especially in Brazil, receive limited attention in international climate research and policy, as well as in proactive disaster preparedness and preparation at national and local levels (Huang et al, 2015;WMO/GWP, 2017;Gannon et al, 2020). Moreover, this is felt, mainly, in the limited availability of quality scientific production.…”

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“…Semi-Arid Lands (SALs) in developing and emerging countries are high-risk climate change hotspots, and of all subtypes of global drylands, Semi-Arid zones have the most significant area, which accounts for more than one-third of the total dryland area (UNCCD, 2011;De Souza et al, 2015;Tucker et al, 2015;Huang et al, 2015). Globally, SALs are home to roughly one billion people, especially some of the poorest and least food secure populations (Gannon et al, 2020). Additionally, two billion people live in the so-called drylands, which cover about 41% of the terrestrial land surface and produce 44% of the crops, and half of the world's livestock (UNCCD, 2011).…”

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“…Droughts are natural disasters, and their occurrence compromises water and energy security and subsistence agriculture in regions such as NEB (Marengo et al, 2018). Nonetheless, SALs, especially in Brazil, still receive little or limited attention in international climate policy and research, suffering remarkable insufficiencies concerning proactive disaster preparedness and prevention at the national and local levels 3 (CSNA; 2014; Huang et al, 2015;WMO/GWP, 2017;Gannon et al, 2020).…”

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Climate resilience building in Semi-Arid Lands (SALs): institutional weaknesses and strengths in subnational governments in Brazil

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Well established institutions are an essential factor for the successful realization of sustainable socio-economic and environmental potential in Semi-Arid Lands (SALs). SALs receive limited attention in international climate research and policies; thus, the institutional relationship between governance, policy, and implementation continues to suffer from inconsistencies across governance levels. This research carried out an analysis combining mixed-research methods to collect, record, and analyze data and information regarding institutional and organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and local level policy implementation challenges and scope to assess the effectiveness of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and implementation of adaptation policies at State and local levels in SALs. The inefficiencies observed in the DRM/CCA adaptation processes are concentrated in areas of high governance of state and municipal governments and stem from local communities' reduced organizational and technical capacity. It results in the negligent application of measures and resources to address climate risks. Therefore, this paper contributes to the increasing understanding of the institutional framework's role in the facilitation of local adaptation, revealing what seems to be working well, what is not, how things could improve in Brazilian SALs.

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“…We synthesize the literature selected for review through a vulnerability analysis that situates vulnerability and adaptive capacity within the context of the wider climate risk framework denoted in IPCC AR5 (IPCC, 2014a). We include small‐scale agricultural producers and pastoralists within our definition of entrepreneur (cf., Canevari‐Luzardo, 2019a, 2019b; Carabine & Simonet, 2018; Gannon et al, 2020). However, to keep our review focused on the elements of the business environment required for adaptation to climate change by entrepreneurs in rural and urban, and agricultural and nonagricultural, SMEs in Africa, we structure this vulnerability analysis through the framework of enabling conditions required to support SME adaptation to climate change developed in Crick, Gannon, et al (2018).…”

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The triple differential vulnerability of female entrepreneurs to climate risk in sub‐Saharan Africa: Gendered barriers and enablers to private sector adaptation

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The ability of businesses to adapt effectively to climate change is highly influenced by the external business enabling environment. Constraints to adaptive capacity are experienced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across sub-Saharan Africa, regardless of the gender of the business owner. However, gender is a critical social cleavage through which differences in adaptive capacity manifest and in Africa most entrepreneurs are women. We conduct a systematic review to synthesize existing knowledge on differential vulnerability of female entrepreneurs in Africa to climate risk, in relation to their sensitivity to extreme climate events and their adaptive capacity. We synthesize this literature using a vulnerability analysis approach that situates vulnerability and adaptive capacity within the context of the wider climate risk framework denoted in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. In doing so, we identify gendered barriers and enablers to private sector adaptation and suggest women entrepreneurs face a "triple differential vulnerability" to climate change, wherein they: (1) are often more sensitive to climate risk, as a result of their concentration in certain sectors and types of enterprises (e.g., micro SMEs in the agricultural sector in remote regions); (2) face additional barriers to adaptation in the business environment, including access to finance, technologies, (climate and adaptation) information and supportive policies; and (3) are also often concurrently on the frontline of managing climate risk at household levels. Since various forms of inequality often create compounding experiences of discrimination and vulnerability, we pay particular attention to how factors of differential vulnerability intersect, amplify, and reproduce.

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Private adaptation in semi-arid lands: a tailored approach to ‘leave no one behind’

Cited by 8 publications

References 77 publications

Business experience of floods and drought-related water and electricity supply disruption in three cities in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2015/2016 El Niño

Business experience of floods and drought-related water and electricity supply disruption in three cities in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2015/2016 El Niño

Climate resilience building in Semi-Arid Lands (SALs): institutional weaknesses and strengths in subnational governments in Brazil

The triple differential vulnerability of female entrepreneurs to climate risk in sub‐Saharan Africa: Gendered barriers and enablers to private sector adaptation

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