Approaches to Economic Empowerment of Rural Women for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Implications for Policy

Ajani, E. N.; Onwubuya, E A; Mgbenka, R. N.

doi:10.4314/jae.v17i1.3

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“…An understanding of how women are affected by climate change and their capacity to contribute to climate adaptation strategies is essential for their effective involvement in climate change responses and for harnessing their capacity for appropriate mitigative and adaptive actions (Women's Environment & Development Organization, 2007). Studies have shown various examples in different countries where women's knowledge and actions have helped to control erosion, prevent flood damage, and improve access to water (Ajani, Onwubuya, & Mgbenka, 2013;Wuyep, Dung, Buhari, Madaki, & Bitrus, 2014). Women should therefore be an important part of decision-making processes regarding land and resource management in order to allow their knowledge to benefit entire communities.…”

Section: Climate Change and Rural Lifestylementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring potential climate-related entrepreneurship opportunities and challenges for rural Nigerian women

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Entrepreneurship is a tool for facilitating rural economic development, which is becoming increasingly needed to respond to the growing impacts of accelerating climate change on rural women's livelihoods in less developed countries creating constraints on sustainable development. This study examines the awareness of and impacts of climatic changes as perceived by women in South West Nigeria in diverse vegetation zones. It elicits the challenges facing women and which constrain their entrepreneurial activities. It therefore identifies potential adaptation strategies and opportunities, including drawing on a review of wider developments in at international development level, such as technological, institutional and infrastructural innovations. The study employed explorative, mixed approaches, including quantitative and qualitative methods. Five hundred and ninety-five questionnaires were administered to selected respondents through multi-stage sampling technique, while Focused Group Discussions (FGDs) were used to solicit qualitative data from two hundred and forty women. Quantitative data were analysed with SPSS for descriptive and analysis of variance, and Atlas ti. was used to thematically analyse qualitative data. Findings showed that women have high levels of awareness of changes in their climate. Analysis of variance revealed that most of the women involved in crop farming in the vegetation zones showed better understanding than women in other livelihood. They strongly agreed (with mean of approximately 5) that climate change had greatly affected soil fertility, caused less predictable, and prolonged the dry season. Over 90% of the women perceived significant impacts of these changes on their livelihood activities. Overall, there were no clear divergences in women's attitudes towards innovation and entrepreneurship between the vegetation zones and a relatively high expectation of government support. Wider review of current practice and innovations highlights a wide range of new opportunities for building women's adaptive capacity which could directly or indirectly catalyse increased entrepreneurship amongst women. Furthermore, the involvement of local authorities and community-based organisations, as well as diverse public and private actors, in the development of adaptation strategies is crucial to achieving this.

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Section: Climate Change and Rural Lifestylementioning

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Exploring potential climate-related entrepreneurship opportunities and challenges for rural Nigerian women

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“…Empowering and valuing women in their societies increases their capacity to improve food security under climate change and make substantial contributions to their own well-being, to that of their families and of their communities (Langer et al 2015;Ajani et al 2013 andAlston 2014) (high confidence).…”

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Climate Change and Land

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as a proxy (percentage of pregnant women whose haemoglobin level is less than 110 grams per litre at sea level and percentage of non-pregnant women whose haemoglobin level is less than 120 grams per litre at sea level). a Body mass index between 25 kg m -2 and 29.9 kg m -2 . b Body mass index greater than 30 kg m -2 . c Prevalence of overweight/obesity among adults (age ≥18) in year 2016. Data from NCD Risc data source. d UNICEF WHO Joint Malnutrition. e In 2011.f Anaemia prevalence in girls and women aged 15 to 49.

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“…MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol 6 No 6 S4 December 2015 252 Ajani et al, (2013), in a research pointed out that rural women's economic activities can be promoted in several ways because their potentialities as agents of change to community development through their participation in economic and income generating activities are untapped, but, their theoretical and practical knowledge to the environment and resource is not given due consideration. Bashir et al, (2014) examines the microfinance as a strategy for poverty reduction and a prime to achieve sustainable community development.…”

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Rural Women’s Economic Contribution towards Community Development in Rural Communities of Kano State, Nigeria

Abdullahi¹,

Ghani²,

Dalhatu³

2015

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Approaches to Economic Empowerment of Rural Women for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Implications for Policy

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Cited by 17 publications

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Exploring potential climate-related entrepreneurship opportunities and challenges for rural Nigerian women

Exploring potential climate-related entrepreneurship opportunities and challenges for rural Nigerian women

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Rural Women’s Economic Contribution towards Community Development in Rural Communities of Kano State, Nigeria

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