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Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia

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Title Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia
 
Creator Arora, Diksha
 
Subject food security
agriculture
climate change
genero
gender
role of women
papel de la mujer
 
Description Research suggests that extreme weather events have a negative impact on agricultural
income and wellbeing of smallholder households. Climate change induced shocks can
also a ect people's ability to work, thereby, in
uence their decisions on labor or time
allocation. Very few studies have considered this impact, mainly at the economy-wide
level. There is a huge gap in the evidence of micro level impact of climate change
on time-use among agricultural households. In this paper, I analyze the impact of a
prolonged weather shock [drought] on labor allocation, primarily time-use of small-
scale livestock herders. Adopting a gender lens to the analysis, the paper examines
gender di erences in the e ects of the climate shock. The ndings suggest that
although both men and women became time poorer as a result of coping with the
e ects of the drought, women who already managed the double burden of productive
and reproductive activities became worse o .
 
Date 2019-02-25
2019-02-27T13:21:23Z
2019-02-27T13:21:23Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Arora, D. 2019. Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles: Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99725
PII-LAM_LivestockPlus
PII-LAM_CSVCauca
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf