Harvesting Water for Living with Drought: Insights from the Brazilian Human Coexistence with Semi-Aridity Approach towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Harvesting Water for Living with Drought: Insights from the Brazilian Human Coexistence with Semi-Aridity Approach towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

The Semi-Arid region of Brazil (SAB) has been periodically affected by moderate to extreme droughts, jeopardizing livelihoods and severely impacting the life standards of millions of family farmers. In the early 1990s the Human Coexistence with Semi-Aridity (HCSA) emerged as a development approach....

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Main Authors: Diego Pereira Lindoso, Flávio Eiró, Marcel Bursztyn, Saulo Rodrigues-Filho, Stephanie Nasuti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
semi-arid
drought
sustainable development goals
rainwater harvesting
family farming
living with drought
bottom-up governance
climate adaptation
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/3/622

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