Networking for Gender Equitable Climate-Smart Agriculture
Publisher: Climate and Development
Author(s): Rachel S. Friedman, Ellis Mackenzie, Tom Sloan, and Nicole Sweaney
Date: 2023
Topics: Gender, Renewable Resources
Climate change presents a grave and growing threat to the productivity and resilience of smallholder farming systems, impacts on which are already being felt in Pacific Island nations. Climate information plays a critical role in adaptation to these threats. Yet its accessibility and use may differ dramatically between groups of farmers, highlighting the need to understand the different paths of information exchange within communities. In this study, we examined weather and climate information sharing networks of both male and female farmers, and their perceived barriers to information access and use through a survey in three provinces in Papua New Guinea.