Research shows that paying attention to gender matters not only for the equity of climate change adaptation programs but also for their efficiency and effectiveness. Many organizations working to increase resilience to climate change with local communities also recognize the importance of gender ...
Bryan, Elisabeth
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Bernier, Quinn
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Espinal, Marcia
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Ringler, Claudia
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[Integrating Gender into Climate Change Adaptation Programs: A Research and Capacity Needs Assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Integrating Gender into Climate Change Adaptation Programs: A Research and Capacity Needs Assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper presents the initial data analyses of the CCAFS gender survey implemented in four sites in Africa. Using descriptive statistics we show gender differences in terms of perceptions of climate change, awareness and adoption of climate smart agricultural (CSA) practices, and types and sour...
This paper analyses gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices. It examines what factors are associated with the likelihood of adoption of a wide range of CSA practices for 376 women and 375 men in two different areas of Kenya. This information is a...
Bernier, Quinn
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Haglund, E
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Kovarik, C.
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Bryan, Elisabeth
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Ringler, Claudia
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Silvestri, Silvia
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[Gender and Institutional Aspects of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Kenya]
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Gender and Institutional Aspects of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Kenya
This brief focuses on the constraints that women face to more equitable participation in smallholder carbon and climatesmart initiatives. It highlights the important role that a flexible learning approach plays in advancing equity goals, and offers recommendations for concrete actions that can em...
Bernier, Quinn
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Franks P
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Otzelberger A
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Foster K
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[Addressing Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture]
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Addressing Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture
Crop and climate models predict how climate change will impact yields of various crops in different regions. However, it is difficult to predict the impact of climate change on individuals’ lives. Different groups and types of people experience the impacts of climate change differently depending ...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Bernier, Quinn
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Bryan, Elisabeth
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Ringler, Claudia
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Badiane Ndour, Ndèye Yacine
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[Implications of gender-focused research in Senegal for farmer's adaption to climate change]
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Implications of gender-focused research in Senegal for farmer's adaption to climate change
Les modèles agricoles et climatiques sont capables de pré-dire l’impact du changement climatique sur les rende-ments de différentes récoltes dans diverses régions. Cet impact est toutefois difficile à prévoir sur la vie des indivi-dus. Chaque groupe ou type de personnes vivra différemment les con...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Bernier, Quinn
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Bryan, Elisabeth
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Ringler, Claudia
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Badiane Ndour, Ndèye Yacine
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[Implications de la recherche centrée sur le genre au Sénégal pour l’adaptation au changement climatique]
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Implications de la recherche centrée sur le genre au Sénégal pour l’adaptation au changement climatique
Bernier, Quinn
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Public private partnerships for irrigation: Expanding access or increasing inequality.]
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Public private partnerships for irrigation: Expanding access or increasing inequality.
Twyman, Jennifer
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Bernier, Quinn
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Muriel, Juliana
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Paz, Liliana
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Ortega, Luis A.
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Koningstein, Manon
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[Ensuring climate-smart agriculture is gender-smart: a participatory method for local adaptation planning with a gender focus]
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Ensuring climate-smart agriculture is gender-smart: a participatory method for local adaptation planning with a gender focus
This paper describes an action research process undertaken with four African agricultural carbon projects—CARE’s Sustainable Agriculture in Changing Climate Initiative in Western Kenya; World Vision’s Assisted Natural Regeneration Project in Humbo, Ethiopia; Vi Agroforestry’s Western Kenya Agricu...
Shames, Seth
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Bernier, Quinn
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Masiga, Moses
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[Development of a participatory action research approach for four agricultural carbon projects in East Africa]
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Development of a participatory action research approach for four agricultural carbon projects in East Africa
Agricultural development efforts that do not address persistent gender gaps miss opportunities for greater impact. This synthesis reflects on key findings from integrated quantitative and qualitative analyses at the nexus of gender, agricultural development, and climate change. Linked farm househ...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Bryan, Elisabeth
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Bernier, Quinn
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Kieran, Caitlin
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Ringler, Claudia
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Jost, Christine
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Doss, Cheryl
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[Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: where are we and where should we be going?]
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Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: where are we and where should we be going?