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Understanding Vulnerbilities to Impacts of Climate Change Among Women: New Findings from Bangladesh
Are women more vulnerable to climate change then men? If so, what are the factors which contribute to these increases and what measures can be taken to help increase the resiliency of both women and men to climate change?
These are a few of the questions being addressed in a new report by the World Bank's Nilufar Ahmad. The report, titled Gender in Climate Change in Bangladesh: The Role of Institutions in Reducing Gender Gaps in Adaptation, is the latest work to focus on the differentiated impacts posed by the potential impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector and beyond. By focusing on 18 vulnerable sites across both urban and rural areas, this innovative report provides in-depth qualitative and quantitative analyses of some of the major gender-differentiated impacts faced by populations throughout Bangladesh.
In tandem with the upcoming publication of the full report, the author recently met with the Washington-based Gender Responsive Agriculture Development and Enterprise (GRADE) group to present the findings from this work and answer questions on her findings (available here).
FAO Launches Gender & Climate Training Guide: Better research for better programmes and policies
Smallholder men and women farmers play different roles in agriculture and have different levels of access to resources: For example, women farmers tend to take care of smaller livestock and grow food crops while men have control over larger animals and cultivate cash crops. As a result, they develop different strategies to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. For better results, these respective strategies need to be equally taken into consideration in the formulation of programmes and policies that support climate-smart agriculture.
FAO’s Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) recently launched the Training Guide for Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development for agricultural development professionals. The guide provides users with tools to collect and analyze gender-sensitive information about agricultural communities facing climate change, and to use this knowledge to create better policies and programmes that equally support men and women farmers to shift to climate-smart practices. More...
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