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Gender-Based Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana: What Lessons for Nationally-appropriate Mitigation Actions Exist? (Chapter in "Climate Change and Sub-Saharan Africa")
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If the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO's) evidence that women produce over 70% of sub-Saharan Africa's food is true, then targeting women during agriculture-related research,…
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
Briefs & Development
The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous…
Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Briefs & Development
On any given morning in the locality of Al-Rahad in Sudan, women like Hawa Abdullah, dressed in bright colours, can be seen turning up the…
Shoring Up Stability: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks in the Lake Chad Region
Briefs & Development
The people of Lake Chad are caught in a conflict trap. Violent conflict between state security forces and armed opposition groups, poor governance, endemic corruption,…
Inégalités de Genre et Insécurité Alimentaire: Dix Ans après La Crise des Pris des Denrées Alimentaires, Pourquoi Les Agricultrices Souffrent-Elles Encore de la Faim?
Briefs & Development
La crise des prix des denrées alimentaires de 2007-2008 et une deuxième flambée des prix en 2010-2011 ont eu des effets dévastateurs sur les populations…
Gender Inequalities and Food Security: Ten Years after the Food Price Crisis, Why Are Women Farmers Still Food-Insecure?
Briefs & Development
The food price crisis of 2007–08 had devastating impacts for the world’s poorest people, especially for smallholder farmers and in particular for women, who face…
Tackling Global Challenges to Equality and Inclusion through the Gender-Responsive Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Spotlight on SDGs 10, 13 and 16
Briefs & Development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development carries huge transformative potential. Its vision of putting people and planet first, focusing on sustaining peace, putting gender equality…
Gendered Vulnerabilities to Climate Change: Insights from the Semi-Arid Regions of Africa and Asia
Briefs & Development
Emerging and on-going research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered. Still, policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities’ adaptive capacity largely…
Discursive Translations of Gender Mainstreaming Norms: The Case of Agricultural and Climate Change Policies in Uganda
Briefs & Development
While the international norm on gender mainstreaming, UN-backed since 1995, has been widely adopted in national policies, gender inequalities are rarely systematically addressed on the…
Activity Report: Gender Integration in Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change Policy: A Framework Proposal
Briefs & Development
Effective gender integration in policy has been proposed in many sectors and policies. CCAFS FP1 LAM has endorsed to favor mainstreaming of gender issue within…
Deconstructing Resilience: Why Gender and Power Matter in Responding to Climate Stress in Bangladesh
Briefs & Development
Resilience is increasingly becoming the new buzz word. This paper examines the utility of the concept of resilience for understanding the gendered experiences of women…
Inclusive Management Through Gender Consideration in Small-Scale Fisheries: The Why and the How
Briefs & Development
In a world in which ocean degradation is widespread and aggravated by the effects of climate change, there is a need to contribute with new…
How Violence against Women and Girls Undermines Resilience to Climate Risks in Chad
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What consequences does ‘everyday violence’ have on the abilities of survivors to protect themselves from further risks? This paper seeks to establish the linkages between…
Women, Water and ‘Wicked Problems’: Community Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change in Northern Pakkoku, Myanmar
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In a very poor, very dry area of NW Myanmar, Northern Pakkoku exhibits numerous ‘wicked problems’—the interplay between lack of water, too much water when…
UN Security Council Resolution 2467
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This was a resolution on sexual violence in conflict, passed with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions (China and Russia).
Citizen Engagement in Climate Adaptation Surveyed: The Role of Values, Worldviews, Gender and Place
Briefs & Development
Local governments' limited mandate and capacity to adequately deal with increasing climate risk and impacts means that citizen engagement is becoming increasingly important for adapting…
Gender and Climate Change: Do Female Parliamentarians Make Difference?
Briefs & Development
This paper investigates whether female political representation in national parliaments influences climate change policy outcomes. Based on data from a large sample of countries, we…
Conducting Gender Analysis to Inform National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Reflections from Six African Countries
Briefs & Development
As countries advance their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, they are increasingly focused on issues of effectiveness, aiming to put into practice the principles and…
Gender and Environment Statistics: Unlocking Information for Action and Measuring the SDGs
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This report seeks to provide a framework to measure the nexus between gender and the environment. It proposes 18 gender-environment indicators for inclusion in the…
Climate Change, Conflict, and Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands
Briefs & Development
This paper considers the conflict impacts of climate change and outlines potential opportunities for peacebuilding in Solomon Islands, a small independent state in the region…
Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: A Guide for Development Organizations Based on the Sustainable Development Goals
Briefs & Development
Gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture remain pressing challenges across the Global South. Food insecurity; unequal access to land, productive resources and education; the…
Gender and Environment Statistics: Unlocking Information for Action and Measuring the SDGs
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Gender equality and women’s empowerment are globally recognized priorities, matters of fundamental human rights, and prerequisites for sustainable development (IUCN, 2018; World Economic Forum, 2015).…
Protecting the Environment and Women in Darfur through Fuel-Efficient Stoves
Briefs & Development
The protracted conflict since 2003 in Darfur, Sudan, has resulted in massive loss of human lives and assets, disrupted livelihoods and led to severe food…
Armed Conflict, Women and Climate Change
Briefs & Development
The gender-differentiated and more severe impacts of armed conflict upon women and girls are well recognised by the international community, as demonstrated by UN Security…
Climate Change: Dangers without Borders: Military Readiness in a Warming World
International
In a little over a decade, climate change could make the installation and other military sites on Kwajalein uninhabitable. A 2018 study commissioned by the…
Climate Change: Integrating Gender in the Mitigation of Climate Change
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The Focal Point of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for Liberia at the EPA says the issue of climate change continues to…
Climate Change: Integrating Gender in the Mitigation of Climate Change
International
The Focal Point of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for Liberia at the EPA says the issue of climate change continues to…
Iraq: Iraq’s Oil Production Problem
International
Iraq’s oil production will only grow marginally over the next 10 years despite its potential capacity, which stands at as much as 7 million bpd,…
Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Women and Climate Change Adaptation
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According to a 2015 Georgetown University report on women and climate change, “the impacts of climate change – droughts, floods, extreme weather, increased incidence of…
A More Just Migration: Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Displacement
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“It is often expected that women care more, and therefore women are going to volunteer, and be the saviors” in times of crisis, said Eleanor Blomstrom,…