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Who gets the information? Gender, power and equity considerations in the design of climate services for farmers

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Title Who gets the information? Gender, power and equity considerations in the design of climate services for farmers
 
Creator Tall, Arame
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
Chaudhury, M.
McKune, Sarah
Zougmoré, Robert B.
 
Subject climate change
food security
agriculture
gender
 
Description Central to understanding the usefulness of climate and weather forecasts in support of agricultural decision-making is addressing the issue of who receives what information. Many contend that improved climate forecasts since the late 1990s have had limited impact on smallholder farming communities in Africa and across the developing world. However, power and privilege may determine who has access to appropriate climate and advisory services within those communities.

In 2011-2012, we tested this hypothesis in three climate-vulnerable farming communities in the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security semi-arid research site of Kaffrine, Senegal. Therein, we assessed gender-specific vulnerabilities to climate-related shocks, endogenous adaptation strategies, and coping mechanisms. From the gap between vulnerability and local capacity, we deduced farmers’ climate service needs, and then assessed whether these systematically differed between distinct vulnerable sub-groups within the community – chiefly, between male and female farmers. In 2011 we introduced a seasonal climate forecast for the first time in the community, and explored perceptions of forecast access, usefulness and value, by both men and women.
 
Date 2014-10
2014-10-30T17:25:12Z
2014-10-30T17:25:12Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Tall A, Kristjanson P, Chaudhury M, McKune S, Zougmoré R. 2014. Who gets the Information? Gender, power and equity considerations in the design of climate services for farmers. CCAFS Working Paper No. 89. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49673
FP2_ForecastingEastAfrica
 
Language en
 
Relation CCAFS Working Paper
 
Rights Open Access
 
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