The articles in this issue grapple with how climate-resilient approaches including climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can more effectively promote gender equality and women’s empowerment1. How can CSA be implemented in ways that improve the situation and empowerment of women as well as men. CSA has ...
Huyer, Sophia
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Partey, Samuel T
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[Weathering the storm or storming the norms? Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture - Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender Equality in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Approaches and Opportunities]
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Weathering the storm or storming the norms? Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture - Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender Equality in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Approaches and Opportunities
Agriculture is the largest employment sector for 60% of women in Oceania, Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and women make up 2/3 of the world’s 600 million small livestock managers. Despite this, women’s activities in agriculture are characterised by a global gender gap in vulnerabilities, ac...
The review assesses the empirical knowledge base on gender-based differences in access, use and benefits from rural climate services to analyse gender equality challenges and identify pathways for making climate services more responsive to the needs of rural women and men. While existing research...
Gumucio, Tatiana
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Huysen, Tiff van
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[Gender-responsive rural climate services: a review of the literature]
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Gender-responsive rural climate services: a review of the literature
Women face barriers that significantly constrain their production and entangle them in a low productivity trap. These barriers encompass societal norms, the gender division of labour (GDOL), resource constraints (access to and use of land), no or low use of inputs (egdrought-adapted seeds), and ...
Nyasimi, Mary
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Huyer, Sophia
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[Closing the gender gap in agriculture under climate change]
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Closing the gender gap in agriculture under climate change
Increasing weather risks threaten agricultural production systems and food security across the world. Maintaining agricultural growth while minimizing climate shocks is crucial to building a resilient food production system and meeting developmental goals in vulnerable countries. Experts have pro...
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Kinyangi, James
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Recha, John W.M.
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Huyer, Sophia
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Hansen, James
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Álvarez Toro, Patricia
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Aguilar-Ariza, Andrés
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Arango-Londoño, David
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Patiño-Bravo, Victor
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Rivera, Ovidio
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Yen, Bui Tan
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[The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrative strategy for scaling up adaptation options in agriculture]
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The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrative strategy for scaling up adaptation options in agriculture
The gender perspective of climate information use is not well studied although
necessary for developing gender-responsive climate information services (CIS). This study
determined how CIS use by men and women farmers may be influenced by their perceptions
about climate change (CC), farm activitie...
Partey, Samuel T.
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Dakorah, Angela D.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Nikoi, Gordon K
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Huyer, Sophia
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[Gender and climate risk management: evidence of climate information use in Ghana]
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Gender and climate risk management: evidence of climate information use in Ghana