Where women in agri-food systems are at highest climate risk: A methodology for mapping climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspots

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Rice Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationAccelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africaen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Banken
cg.contributor.crpGender
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeDigital Innovation
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.countryMali
cg.coverage.countryPakistan
cg.coverage.countryZambia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ML
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PK
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ZM
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierEls Lecoutere: 0000-0002-1025-742Xen
cg.creator.identifierJawoo Koo: 0000-0003-3424-9229en
cg.creator.identifierCarlo Azzarri: 0000-0002-0345-1304en
cg.creator.identifierRanjitha Puskur: 0000-0002-9112-3414en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1197809en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Innovation Policy and Scaling Uniten
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Natural Resources and Resilience Uniten
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Transformation Strategiesen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2571-581Xen
cg.journalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systemsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.volume7en
dc.contributor.authorLecoutere, Elsen
dc.contributor.authorMishra, Avnien
dc.contributor.authorSingaraju, Niyatien
dc.contributor.authorKoo, Jawooen
dc.contributor.authorAzzarri, Carloen
dc.contributor.authorChanana, Nityaen
dc.contributor.authorNico, Gianluigien
dc.contributor.authorPuskur, Ranjithaen
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-17T20:41:27Zen
dc.date.available2023-10-17T20:41:27Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132309
dc.titleWhere women in agri-food systems are at highest climate risk: A methodology for mapping climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspotsen
dcterms.abstractClimate change poses a greater threat for more exposed and vulnerable countries, communities and social groups. People whose livelihood depends on the agriculture and food sector, especially in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), face significant risk. In contexts with gendered roles in agri-food systems or where structural constraints to gender equality underlie unequal access to resources and services and constrain women's agency, local climate hazards and stressors, such as droughts, floods, or shortened crop-growing seasons, tend to negatively affect women more than men and women's adaptive capacities tend to be more restrained than men's . Transformation towards just and sustainable agri-food systems in the face of climate change will not only depend on reducing but also on averting aggravated gender inequality in agri-food systems. In this paper, we developed and applied an accessible and versatile methodology to identify and map localities where climate change poses high risk especially for women in agri-food systems because of gendered exposure and vulnerability. We label these localities climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspots. Applying our methodology to LMICs reveals that the countries at highest risk are majorly situated in Africa and Asia. Applying our methodology for agricultural activity-specific hotspot subnational areas to four focus countries, Mali, Zambia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, for instance, identifies a cluster of districts in Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions in Bangladesh as a hotspot for rice. The relevance and urgency of identifying localities where climate change hits agri-food systems hardest and is likely to negatively affect population groups or sectors that are particularly vulnerable is increasingly acknowledged in the literature and, in the spirit of leaving no one behind, in climate and development policy arenas. Hotspot maps can guide the allocation of scarce resources to most at-risk populations. The climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspot maps show where women involved in agri-food systems are at high climate risk while signaling that reducing this risk requires addressing the structural barriers to gender equality.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.available2023-10en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLecoutere, Els; Mishra, Avni; Singaraju, Niyati; Koo, Jawoo; Azzarri, Carlo; Chanana, Nitya; Nico, Gianluigi; and Puskur, Ranjitha. 2023. Where women in agri-food systems are at highest climate risk: A methodology for mapping climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspots. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7: 1197809. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1197809en
dcterms.isPartOfFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systemsen
dcterms.issued2023-11-06en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiersen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8913en
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectagrifood systemsen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectgender equalityen
dcterms.subjectless favoured areasen
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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