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Weathering the storm or storming the norms? Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11760/
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02612-5
doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02612-5
 
Title Weathering the storm or storming the norms? Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture
 
Creator Huyer, S
Partey, S
 
Subject Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Climate Resilient Technologies
Climate Change
Gender Research
 
Description Much is known about the effects of climate change on women, and most research on the topic
focuses on women’s greater vulnerability as a result of their reliance on natural resources,
lower access to resources and information, and gender and social norms which inhibit their
ability to take action and participate in making household and community decisions. Less
attention is given to women’s active role as agents of change, their knowledge and capacity to
respond to climate impacts, or tackling of the causes of vulnerability (Dankelman 2010;
MacGregor 2010; Perez et al. 2015; Huyer et al. 2015). In the area of agricultural climate
adaptation, Davidson (2016) noted that research on gender has primarily focused on barriers to
adaptation for women to date, finding that women-headed farming households tend to be more
vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and women in all types of households are
relatively more vulnerable as well.Women farmers are less likely to adopt adaptation strategies
due to financial and resource limitations and less control over land (see Jost et al. 2016; McKinley et al. 2018; Mishra and Pede 2017), while agricultural organizations tend to exclude
female farmers from many of the benefits of extension, including access to information, tools,
seed, fertilizers, and improved livestock. Davidson concludes that as a result, women are often
excluded from participation in adaptation decision-making, so that their unique knowledge and
needs associated with their specific roles in farming tend not to be reflected in those decisions.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2019-12
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11760/1/ulzUD.pdf
Huyer, S and Partey, S (2019) Weathering the storm or storming the norms? Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture. Climatic Change (TSI), 158 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0165-0009