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This paper explores access to climate change-related information through a gendered lens. Climate change is rapidly affecting the lives of farmers throughout the world, producing a need for adaptive agricultural livelihoods strategies. A central mechanism in the development of adaptive strategies...


McOmber CPanikowski AMcKune, SarahBartels, W.Russo, Sandra[Investigating climate information services through a gendered lens]Investigating climate information services through a gendered lens

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...


Twyman, JenniferGreen, MollyBernier, QuinnKristjanson, Patricia M.Russo, SandraTall, ArameAmpaire, Edidah L.Nyasimi, MaryMango, JoashMcKune, SarahMwongera, CarolineBadiane Ndour, Ndèye Yacine[Adaptation Actions in Africa: Evidence that Gender Matters]Adaptation Actions in Africa: Evidence that Gender Matters

This report details the results of research undertaken in Kaffrine, Senegal in May and June of 2015, which explored the possibility of utilizing rural health posts as a channel of communication of climate information to female farmers. The hypothesis was that since health posts often aim to reach...


Poulsen ESakho MMcKune, SarahRusso, SandraNdiaye, Ousmane[Exploring synergies between health and climate services: Assessing the feasibility of providing climate information to women farmers through health posts in Kaffrine, Senegal]Exploring synergies between health and climate services: Assessing the feasibility of providing climate information to women farmers through health posts in Kaffrine, Senegal

Climate change is projected to have profound effects on nutritional outcomes, particularly among children under five in developing countries, where small-scale, subsistence farming and livestock production supports a majority of livelihoods. An underlying mechanism by which climate change will ne...


McKune, SarahPoulsen, LizRusso, SandraDevereux, TarynFaas, SimoneMcOmber, ChesneyRyley, Therese[Reaching the end goal: Do interventions to improve climate information services lead to greater food security?]Reaching the end goal: Do interventions to improve climate information services lead to greater food security?

Women’s empowerment is a driving concept in feminist and gender scholarship and is seen as an indicator of a woman’s agency in social and economic spheres. Yet, there is much debate over what this term actually means, how it should be operationalized as a concept in development research. This has...


McOmber CD'Auria Riley, T.McKune, SarahRusso, Sandra[Community concept drawing: Application of a participatory tool for analyzing empowerment across African contexts]Community concept drawing: Application of a participatory tool for analyzing empowerment across African contexts

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