Clidewo — climate, work and health in Brazil
Website · British Academy · CLIDEWO · Brazil
Brazilian agriculture employs millions of workers who are, by any reasonable measure, on the front line of climate change. Heat stress, flooding, and drought are getting worse. At the same time, labour rights violations in the sector are documented and ongoing. The CLIDEWO project tried to look at both problems together rather than separately – asking how climate exposure and labour vulnerability interact, and what the data actually show.
The project brought together researchers from the University of Nottingham, the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), and the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA).
What the site contains
The website is the public output of the project. It has the datasets used in the analysis, interactive visualisations (including the Constellation of Inspections), the R packages built during the project with documentation, a bilingual blog in English and Portuguese with project updates and plain-language summaries, and links to the papers and working documents.
The method
The team built a multi-layer climate risk and vulnerability assessment (CRVA) from climate model outputs, socio-economic data, and qualitative evidence from workers. The goal was a risk picture that is worker-informed, not just satellite-derived.
Funding
British Academy ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants 2024 Programme (IOCRG100945), via the UK Government’s International Science Partnerships Fund.