Gender and Climate Change
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Item Gender [im]balance in productive and reproductive labor among livestock producers in Colombia: Implications for climate change responses(Brief, 2017-02-17) Arora, Diksha; Arango, Jacobo; Burkart, Stefan; Chirinda, Ngonidzashe; Twyman, JenniferRoles and responsibilities in livestock production and household maintenance are segregated along gender lines. Men’s and women’s participation in the livestock sector varies by tasks. Women combine livestock production, particularly, milk processing activities with the responsibility of household and care work. Men’s and women’s indirect contribution with regard to maintenance of the household and care provision to family members is also crucial for healthy and smooth functioning of livestock productive activities and therefore, must be accounted for in policy decisions, including those related to changing climate. As a response to climate change induced drought, men, and particularly women, are investing their labor in alternative sources of income to pay for water provision services to meet the water demands of their animals. For women who already face the double burden of productive and reproductive work, this coping mechanism may deepen their time poverty.Item Barriers to successful climate change policy implementation in Tanzania(Brief, 2016-12-16) Ampaire, Edidah L.; Okolo, Wendy; Acosta, Mariola; Jassogne, Laurence T.P.; Twyman, Jennifer; Muindi, Pauline; Mwongera, CarolineThe agricultural sector is central to Tanzania’s economy, natural resources and livelihoods. Climate change and climate variability presents adverse effects to the growth of the agriculture sector and the livelihoods of 80 percent of Tanzanians (MAFC, 2014). Owing to this, the Tanzania government has ratified several climate-resilient strategies, policies and plans geared towards climate adaptation and mitigation. This Info Note assesses how and to what extent climate change concerns have been mainstreamed in the existing and most recent national strategies, policies, plans and legal legislations of Tanzania. Furthermore, the Info Note focuses on the climate change formulation levels from national to local, and implications on policy implementation in Tanzania.Item Smallholder farmers and climate smart agriculture: Technology and labor-productivity constraints amongst women smallholders in Malawi(Journal Article, 2016-01) Murray U; Gebremedhin Z; Brychkova, Galina; Spillane, CharlesItem Connecting women, connecting men: How communities and organizations interact to strengthen adaptive capacity and food security in the face of climate change(Journal Article, 2016-01) Cramer, Laura K.; Förch, Wiebke; Mutie I; Thornton, Philip K.Item Climate change, “technology” and gender: “adapting women” to climate change with cooking stoves and water reservoirs(Journal Article, 2016-01) Gonda, N.Item The diversity of gendered adaptation strategies to climate change of Indian farmers: a feminist intersectional approach(Journal Article, 2016-12) Ravera, F.; Martín López, B.; Pascual, U.; Drucker, Adam G.This paper examines climate change adaptation and gender issues through an application of a feminist intersectional approach. This approach permits the identification of diverse adaptation responses arising from the existence of multiple and fragmented dimensions of identity (including gender) that intersect with power relations to shape situation-specific interactions between farmers and ecosystems. Based on results from contrasting research cases in Bihar and Uttarakhand, India, this paper demonstrates, inter alia, that there are geographically determined gendered preferences and adoption strategies regarding adaptation options and that these are influenced by the socio-ecological context and institutional dynamics. Intersecting identities, such as caste, wealth, age and gender, influence decisions and reveal power dynamics and negotiation within the household and the community, as well as barriers to adaptation among groups. Overall, the findings suggest that a feminist intersectional approach does appear to be useful and worth further exploration in the context of climate change adaptation. In particular, future research could benefit from more emphasis on a nuanced analysis of the intra-gender differences that shape adaptive capacity to climate change.Item Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania: A Gender Policy Review(Brief, 2016-11-17) Acosta, Mariola; Ampaire, Edidah L.; Okolo, Wendy; Twyman, Jennifer; Jassogne, Laurence T.P.More than twenty years have passed since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where gender mainstreaming was acknowledged as an indispensable global strategy for achieving gender equality. Since then, Tanzania has undoubtedly made efforts in mainstreaming gender in its national policies and strategies (MCDGC, 2012). However, to date some of its policies and strategies still remain gender blind or have not prioritized gender as an area for immediate action. This insufficient consideration to gender in some policy documents, coupled with limited enforcement of the policies that were drafted as gender sensitive, might hinder progress towards gender equality in the country. With climate change increasingly threatening rural livelihoods in Tanzania (Orindi and Murray 2005; Yanda et al. 2013), the need to incorporate gender considerations in the policies and programs dealing directly and indirectly with climate change issues becomes even more apparent. Indeed, if policies fail to acknowledge the different roles, opportunities, perspectives and challenges that women and men have in the face of climate change, the adaptation and mitigation measures proposed in the policies will likely fail or may even ultimately exacerbate gender inequalities (Ncube et al., 2011).Item Gender differences in climate change perception and adaptation strategies: A case study on three provinces in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta(Brief, 2016-07-30) McKinley J; Adaro, C.; Pede, Valerien O.; Setiyono T; Tran CT; Do LH; Nguyen TK; Quicho E; Sheinkman, Michael; Wassmann, ReinerThis brief summarizes the findings of a project output for the Policy Information and Response Platform on Climate Change and Rice in ASEAN and its Member Countries (PIRCCA), being implemented by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). The report focuses on the results of the survey conducted in the first half of 2015 on climate change perception and adaptation strategies of male and female farmers in three selected provinces across the Mekong River Delta (MRD) region in Vietnam: An Giang, Bac Lieu, and Tra Vihn. The survey gathered information on current climate change perceptions and adaptation strategies and gaps between the identified male and female respondents.Item Gender in climate-smart agriculture: module 18 for gender in agriculture sourcebook(Working Paper, 2015-08-25) World Bank; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; International Fund for Agricultural DevelopmentThis module provides guidance and a comprehensive menu of practical tools for integrating gender in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The module emphasizes the importance and ultimate goal of integrating gender in CSA practices, which is to reduce gender inequalities and ensure that men and women can equally benefit from any intervention in the agricultural sector to reduce risks linked to climate change. Climate change has an impact on food and nutrition security and agriculture, and the agriculture sector is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. It is crucial to recognize that climate change affects men and women differently. The content is drawn from tested good practice and innovative approaches, with an emphasis on lessons learned, benefits and impacts, implementation issues, and replicability. These insights and lessons related to gender in CSA will assist practitioners to improve project planning, design, monitoring, and evaluation; to effectively scale up and enhance the sustainability of efforts that are already underway; or to pursue entirely different solutions. This module contains five thematic notes (TNs) that provide a concise and technically sound guide to gender integration in the selected themes. These notes summarize what has been done and highlight the success and lessons learned from projects and programs.Item Climate change, policy change: Five policy lessons to support women farmers in a changing climate(Brief, 2015) Huyer, Sophia; Twyman, Jennifer; Koningstein, Manon; Vermeulen, Sonja J.; Hill, CatherineClimate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change to adapt to and mitigate the effects of changing conditions. Addressing gender inequality is key to ensuring this outcome. Agriculture is a fundamental part of women’s livelihoods globally, most markedly in least developed countries, where four-fifths of economically active women report agriculture as their primary economic activity1 . More women are moving into agriculture as men move elsewhere for seasonal or paid labor. Yet women farmers have less access to inputs and resources that could improve their farming and meet climate change challenges2 . Policies, institutions and services aimed at helping farmers develop approaches to tackle climate change will need to produce results for men and women farmers. This brief provides five policy lessons to support this process, based on evidence from research in low- and middle-income countries.Item Gender implications of climate change for an eco-efficient agriculture(Brochure, 2009) Gómez, JulianaThe PRGA Program has launched a new initiative focused on mitigation efforts to adapt breeding techniques to the effects of Climate Change. These efforts are carried out in partnerships with ICARDA and stakeholder organizations in various regions.Item Climate-induced migration in South Asia: Migration decisions and the gender dimensions of adverse climatic events(Journal Article, 2015-11-23) Bhatta, Gopal Datt; Aggarwal, Pramod K.; Poudel, S.; Belgrave DAThere is significant interest in determining the role of climate-induced shocks as a prominent driver on migration decisions of different groups of farmers in South Asia. Using data from a survey of 2,660 farm-families and focused group discussions in Bihar (India), Terai (plains) (Nepal) and coastal Bangladesh, we employed logistic regression to investigate household response towards migration and gender dimensions of adverse climatic events. The results suggest that migration decisions depend on farmers' unique resource profiles: (a) households that use migration to improve their resilience, mostly resource rich households; (b) households that have no alternative but to migrate, mostly poor farmers; and (c) households who cannot migrate due to different socio-economic obligations, mostly farmers with intermediate level of income that also includes women, children and elderly of different income profiles. These profiles represent a spectrum with households within a profile being closer to one or the other of the profiles on either side. They are not mutually exclusive and serve as a point of departure for further research to refine key explanatory variables. Given that some members of the household pursue migration as a result of adverse climatic events, government strategies are required to mitigate risks at destinations and create opportunities for the trapped populations.Item Women take the lead on climate change adaptation(Video, 2014-02-27) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityCCAFS South Asia partnered with Alternative Futures and the Bihar Mahila Samakhya to conduct a series of training-of-trainer workshops on the cross-cutting themes of gender, agriculture and food security. The trainings invited women elected leaders to learn about the overlaps between gender, climate change adaptation and governance and the differentiated abilities of men and women to tackle climate change. The idea is for them to be able to incorporate this information into regular village-level meetings and sensitize men and women in their communities about these cross-cutting issues. Related blogs on our training-of-trainer workshops: Taking the lead: local champions train farmers on climate change and gender issues http://ow.ly/u320h Training women to train others (Nepal) http://ow.ly/u324xItem Jennifer Twyman & Jacqueline Ashby bust myths about gender, farming and climate change(Video, 2015-03-23) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityAt the cutting edge: current knowledge on closing the gender gap in farming under climate change Keynote presentation by Jacqueline Ashby, CGIAR Senior Advisor on Gender and Research and Jennifer Twyman, Gender Specialist, CIAT, at the seminar on Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change held 19 March 2015 in Paris Read more about the event: http://bit.ly/18SCcGGItem Rachel Friedman on Vulnerability and adaptation strategies among women in Ghanaian cocoa(Video, 2015-03-23) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityWeathering change: Vulnerability and adaptation strategies among women in Ghanaian cocoa Presentation by Rachel Friedman from the University of Oxford at the seminar on Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change held 19 March 2015 in Paris Read more about the event: http://bit.ly/18SCcGGItem Prakesh C Tiwari on Women's adaptive innovations(Video, 2015-03-23) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityWomen's adaptive innovations in land and water management under climate change in Himalaya: An illustration of reducing gender gap in subsistence agricultural economy in marginalized environment Presentation by Prakesh C Tiwari from Kumaon University at the Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change event held 19 March 2015 in Paris. Read more about the event: http://bit.ly/18SCcGGItem Noemi Gonda on Patriarchy and climate change(Video, 2015-03-24) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityPatriarchy and climate change: a feminist political ecology of climate change adaptation in rural Nicaragua Presentation by Noemi Gonda, Central European University at the seminar Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change held 19 March 2015 in Paris. Read more about the event: http://bit.ly/18SCcGGItem Meghan Baily discusses the importance of co-validation within gender and climate change research(Video, 2013-10-31) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityOn October 2013, 22-25, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) theme Linking Knowledge to Action coordinated a Gender Training and Strategizing Workshop, in Nairobi, Kenya. The ambition was to fast-track CCAFS partners and gender-enthusiasts from the five CCAFS regions, to take the lead on developing organisational strategies that will help them integrate gender into climate change and agriculture research. Read about the workshop on the CCAFS blog: http://ow.ly/qoF2w Learn more about the conference: http://ow.ly/qmUfiItem Closing the gender gap for a food-secure future(Video, 2015-03-27) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityWhy do we need to close the gender gap in food and farming under climate change, and how can we do it? Inspiring women share their views! Featuring: - Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice - Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International - Jane Madgwick, CEO, Wetlands International - Evelyn Namubiru-Mwaura, Policy Officer, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) - Surabhi Mittal, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) - Mariola Acosta, Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) Filmed at the seminar Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change. 19 March 2015, Paris. http://bit.ly/18SCcGGItem Punya Prasad Regmi on the need to change people's mindsets on gender and climate change(Video, 2013-11-01) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityOn October 2013, 22-25, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) theme Linking Knowledge to Action coordinated a Gender Training and Strategizing Workshop, in Nairobi, Kenya. The ambition was to fast-track CCAFS partners and gender-enthusiasts from the five CCAFS regions, to take the lead on developing organisational strategies that will help them integrate gender into climate change and agriculture research. Read more about the workshop on our blog: http://ow.ly/qoF2w Learn more about the conference aim and get documents: http://ow.ly/qlVDi