Investigators from International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Zero in on Climate Change (Disaster Risk Management, or Adaptation To Climate Change? the Elaboration of Climate Policies Related To Agriculture In Colombia): Climate Change

2022 JUN 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Climate Change have been published. According to news reporting out of Cali, Colombia, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “If climate policies are the result of transnationalization of public policies, how are they reinterpreted at the national level? This study has examined the context in which climate policy is formulated in Colombia from an actor-oriented perspective. Using a traveling model approach,we analyzed the role of actors at international and national levels in raising climate issues and shaping climate policies.”

Financial supporters for this research include French National Research Agency (ANR), CGIAR, CGIAR.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), “The results showed that the translation chains from several governmental and non-governmental actors increase the visibility of climate issues in Colombia and how such consultations help defining and addressing these issues. The analysis arising from the climate traveling model exposes power struggles between competing agencies: the National Planning Department (DNP), which promoted climate-change adaptation, and the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD), which favored disaster risk management. At the end of the translation chains, governmental actors reappropriated the international consultants’ interpretations of the issues and solutions within an economic perspective. Hence, adaptation to climate change came to be seen as an economic opportunity or as a way to avoid economic loss.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “International dominance in the elaboration of climate policies combined with scant involvement of local actors could constitute a challenge for policy implementation and potentially inhibit achieving successful outcomes.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Disaster Risk Management, or Adaptation To Climate Change? the Elaboration of Climate Policies Related To Agriculture In Colombia. Geoforum, 2022;131:163-172. Geoforum can be contacted at: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Geoforum - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/geoforum/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Fanny Howland, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Km 17 Recta Cali Palmira, Apartado Aereo 6713, Cali, Colombia.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.02.012. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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