Boutroue, Bétina <br/><br/>
Governing the adaptation of agriculture to climate change by project? The limits of climatized agricultural policies in Senegal 

 -  2022.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The article feeds into the reflections of this special issue on the normalization of climate policy studies and on the differentiated “climatizations” of public policies by questioning the dynamics of how climate issues have been integrated within Senegal’s agricultural policies. This country is characterized by its high vulnerability to the effects of climate change and is marked by a long tradition of extraversion and dependence on international aid donors. We use Candel and Biesbroek’s processual analysis model of integration, which includes four variables: policy framing, policy goals, policy subsystem involvement and policy instruments. We also draw on the socio-anthropology of development literature to reshape the instrumental variable of the processual analysis model in order to adapt it to the context of a country “under aid regime”. We find that adaptation to climate change is an issue that is formally well integrated into agricultural policies in Senegal, due to the circulation of this public policy norm within international negotiations (the “policy framing” variable). Moreover, its appropriation at the level of the Senegalese state (the “policy goals” variable) and by administrative agencies within the framework of an institutional competition for resources for agricultural adaptation (the “subsystem involvement” variable) are also relatively well integrated. However, the difficulties of the Senegalese government in financing its own instruments for adapting agriculture to climate change, together with the imposition by donors of a project-based mode of governance for adaptation (the model’s adapted instrumental variable), in practice limit actual levels of policy integration.