Gender, Climate Change and Household Food Security: A South Asian Perspective

Ramachandran, Nira

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6719-5_5

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“…Literature show that women count among the most vulnerable sections that have been impacted by climate change, and climate change has a varying impact on women and men owing to existing gender inequalities. The impact of climate change can aggravate existing gender inequalities, and the ability to adapt to climate change is also affected by inequality (UNDP, 2013;IUCN, 2015), as women are disproportionately affected by disasters (Ramachandran, 2013;IUCN, 2015). Inequalities exist in the form of sexual division of labour in poor communities such that women traditionally have many responsibilities, which increase owing to climate change effects.…”

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“…However, the focus on gender is not clear so far and has not been given due attention. South Asia has always been a hotspot for natural calamities due to its geographical location dependence on agriculture, weather dependency, extreme poverty and other factors (UNDP, 2013;Ramachandran, 2013). Indeed, there is a gap regarding women-centric dimensions of climate change in the previous research works.…”

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“…Climate change increases the time taken by women to access essential resources, which takes a toll on the caring function, since malnutrition is generally attributed to lack of caring. All these factors have severe implications on food security (Ramachandran, 2013). A study showed that in Bangladesh, women were harassed when they went to collect relief and food after cyclones for their families.…”

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Climate change and women in South Asia: a review and future policy implications

Patel

Agrawal²,

Mathew

et al. 2019

WJSTSD

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Purpose South Asian region is a focal point owing to its vulnerabilities to climate-sensitive diseases, dependence on climate-sensitive livelihoods, projected levels of crop decline in the region, and high rates of poverty and malnutrition. Women are particularly vulnerable to climate change and this affects women disproportionately during different extreme events. The purpose of this paper is to understand the issue of climate change and its impact, and climate resilience among women in South Asia. Further, it also identifies the gaps and suggests future policy implications. Design/methodology/approach Climate change is increasingly being recognised as an alarming issue and the present review is important when South Asian countries are facing the brunt of climate change impacts. This paper tries to understand the issue by review of the literature and conceptual framework methodology. To understand women’s vulnerability due to climate change and its aftermath, the authors conducted both offline and online desk reviews for this study. Findings The findings of this study show a clear linkage between climate change and women’s vulnerabilities in South Asia. Climate change has significant socio-economic impacts on women, and it affects them disproportionately in various domains of agriculture, livelihood, food security, both physical and mental health, water and sanitation in the South Asia region. Practical implications The paper also highlights that the programmes that aim at combating the effects of climate change require a gender-sensitive approach so that climate change does not obstruct the development and reduction of poverty in the region. Social implications The findings of this paper will add value in helping families to come out of poverty by undertaking adaptive measures with proactive assistance from the government and grassroots level organisations. Originality/value The present study also advocates for more gender- and climate-sensitive measures from governments, and implementation of intervention- and evidence-based research in the South Asian countries.

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Climate change and women in South Asia: a review and future policy implications

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Agrawal²,

Mathew

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“…At the end, some parameters were measured including plant height, stem diameter, corncob length, corncob diameter, and production. The analysis of variance was used to determine whether there are any statistically differences between the means of parameters at 95% confidence level [19]. Then followed by Duncan's Multiple Range Test (DMRT) to measure specific difference between pairs of means [20].…”

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Identifying Land Resource Potency and Introducing New Varieties to Support Sustainable Maize Production in Simalungun Regency

Siagian¹,

Purba²,

Sipahutar³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Management and Innovation, ICoSMI 2020, 14-16 September 2020, Bo

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As the third highest of harvested area for maize among regencies in North Sumatera Province, Simalungun Regency shares significant contribution for the total production. Unfortunately, there is a declining trend of production for five years influencing by total harvested area and productivity. These two factors are the justification to conduct this study with the aims to identify the potency of land resource for maize by measuring land-limitation factors and to introduce new varieties. Soil physic and chemical data were collected from field survey and laboratory analysis, and GIS and Evaluation System for Land Suitability tools were operated to detect the land potency. Meanwhile, Random Block Design with three replications performed to determine the well-adapted varieties. The results show that Simalungun Regency has 165,311 ha of high potency of land for maize and 238,834 ha and 26,952 ha has low and no potency of land, respectively. Nutrient retention and erosion hazard are the predominant limitation factors. Especially for adaptive-variety testing, this study found that Srikandi Kuning provides the highest productivity, 7.79 t/ha, that insignificantly difference with Bisma, Gumarang, Arjuna and Sukmaraga by 7.44, 7.27, 7.06 and 6.89 t/ha respectively. Conversely, Krisna has the lowest productivity, 4.98 t/ha, which is lower than provincial level. Applying land conservation measures and adopting new/tolerant variety be able to support sustainable maize production.

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