Adaptation in Brazil: In 1996, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in cooperation with scientific institutions, launched a program called “agricultural zoning for climatic risk”. Its main objective is to define areas and periods with lower climatic risks for the cultiva-tion of different crops. The main stakeholders involved in the process were public institutions supporting agricultural production at state and municipal level (such as Ministry of Agriculture, State Enterprise
for Technical Assistance and Rural Development (EMATER), National Institute of Meteorology etc.), associations of farmers and rural credit banks. The results of agricultural zoning have a strong influence on future land use as they guide agricultural credit and rural insurance. For a detailed example on land use planning as a tool to adapt to climate change see annex A5 presenting a case from Tonga. See also 3.1 for an example from Peru.