The influence of community-based resource management institutions on adaptation capacity: A large-n study of farmer responses to climate and global market disturbances |
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| Institution: | 1. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Building Z Campus UAB 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola), Barcelona, Spain;2. Escuela Graduada de Planificación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, 00925, Puerto Rico;3. Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, 513 N. Park Ave., 47408, Bloomington, IN, United States;1. Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Socio-Economics, Eberswalder Strasse 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany;2. University of São Paulo (USP), Prof. Luciano Gualberto Ave. 1289, Cidade Universitária, 05508-010 São Paulo, Brazil;3. Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management (IDC), Mumbgasse 6/27, 1020 Vienna, Austria;1. McGill University, Department of Geography, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Room 705, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9, Canada;2. Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology and Restoration, Ministry of Agriculture, 120 Wulanchabu East Street, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010010, China;1. “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, Department “AGRARIA”, Località Feo di Vito, I-89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy;2. Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, CSIC, Alameda del Obispo, E-14004 Córdoba, Spain;1. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA;2. Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA;3. Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA |
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| Abstract: | An underlying understanding among adaptation and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) scholars is the existence of important feedbacks between local resource management institutions and individual adaptive capacity. The relationship between CBNRM and individual adaptive capacity is of global concern given the ubiquity of CBNRM worldwide, the patent impacts of global changes at local levels, and the recent calls for the integration of climate and rural development policies. So far, however, there have not been formal, large-n studies of that relationship. This study aims to fill that gap by testing whether the performance of community-based water management institutions and communal land regimes have an impact on the effectiveness of farmers’ adaptation responses to climatic and global market disturbances. For this purpose, the study relies on a unique dataset of individual and collective features obtained from water user associations (WUAs) and ejidos in Mexico. According to the regression results, well-functioning community-based water management institutions have a positive and significant impact on individual farmers’ self-reported response effectiveness. The impact of communal land property is also significant but negative. These effects, which hold only in the context of climate disturbances but not market disturbances, can be explained by looking at the support given by the associations to farmers, and issues of communal land marginalization, respectively. Policies that strengthen the autonomy and capacity for cooperation of WUAs and ameliorate structural deficits in communal land regimes shall not only guarantee a long-advocated path for rural development but also help farmers deal with some of the climatic uncertainties that increasingly threaten agriculture. |
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| Keywords: | Adaptation capacity Community-based natural resource management Institutional analysis Ejido Water user associations Mexico |
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