Pastoral coping and adaptation climate change strategies: Implications for women's well-being

Walker, Sarah; Bruyere, Brett L.; Solomon, Jennifer; Powlen, Kathryn; Yasin, Apin; Lenaiyasa, Elizabeth; Lolemu, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104656

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“…For example, while commercialization has been identified as a key strategy in assisting farmers to adapt to climate change, it tends to weaken women's control by focusing on sales rather than consumption decisions in East Africa (Tavenner et al, 2019). Walker et al (2022) show that herd composition in response to drought is characterized by a shift from cattle or camel to sheep and goats for which women are responsible, leading to an increase in women's labor and responsibility compared to men. In southern Tanzania, increased rainfall variability, declining soil fertility, yield variability, and declining crop yields are forcing households to cultivate more land, which demands more labor (Nelson and Stathers, 2009).…”

Section: Impact On Agricultural Productionmentioning

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“…Concerning human health, climate change is expected to influence the incidence and geographic distribution of vector-borne diseases like malaria and Rift Valley fever (Chevalier et al, 2011;Chaves et al, 2012). Hence, interventions aimed at building adaptation and resilience must consider gendered impacts on pastoral households (Walker et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Climate Change and Gender in Africa: A Review of Impact and Gender-Responsive Solutions

Awiti

2022

Front. Clim.

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Climate change affects livelihoods and wellbeing. Women and men may experience the impacts of climate change differently. But climate change and its associated impacts affect women negatively. A review was done on peer-reviewed literature related to the impact of climate change on gender in Africa. While there is an abundance of credible scientific evidence on the impacts of climate change, there is a dearth of reliable disaggregated data and evidence on the impact of climate change on women. The review shows that climate change affects women more negatively compared to men in five impact areas: (i) agricultural production; (ii) food and nutrition security; (iii) health; (iv) water and energy; (v) climate-related disaster, migration, and conflict. The lack of gender-disaggregated data undermines efforts to design gender-responsive interventions to enable women to cope with and adapt to climate change impacts. While there is no consensus on what constitutes gender-responsive solutions to climate vulnerability and risk, the paper provides some priority action areas to stimulate debate and hopefully consensus for a starting point for deeper engagement of women's participation and motivating investments in creating frameworks for accountability for measurable gender-differentiated outcomes. Efforts to design and deploy gender-responsive solutions to climate change impact must take a holistic, asset-based approach, which meaningfully seeks to identify dominant causal mechanisms and develops context policy and institutional options to address interlocking asset or capital dis-endowments.

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Section: Impact On Agricultural Productionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Climate Change and Gender in Africa: A Review of Impact and Gender-Responsive Solutions

Awiti

2022

Front. Clim.

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“…However, this opportunity is not equal, widening the gap between rich and poor farmers in access to credit [ 5 ]. The transfer of farmland cannot relieve farmers' credit constraints but will reduce the loan intensity, resulting in severe credit constraints [ 6 ].…”

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Analysis of Herdsmen’s Credit Behavior under the Identification Scheme of Emotional and Psychological State

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Liyang

2022

Occupational Therapy International

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Herdsmen’s access to credit funds plays an important supporting role in promoting the modern economic development of pastoral areas and broadening the channels for herders to increase their income. This paper studies the credit behavior of herdsmen from the perspective of emotional and psychological state identification to analyze the current credit behavior of herdsmen. Firstly, the internal mechanism of herdsmen’s credit and emotional and psychological identification research content are analyzed. Secondly, a scheme of emotional and psychological state identification is proposed, and a corresponding survey of herdsmen is carried out according to the scheme. Finally, the Probit and Heckman models are introduced to analyze the credit behavior of herdsmen. The results show that herdsmen with high emotional and psychological scores strongly demand credit. They are likely to have access to credit and have a high level of credit. Herdsmen with low scores of emotional and psychological characteristics have low or no apparent demand for credit, and their credit availability is also low. The herdsmen with high emotional and psychological characteristics have a 71% higher probability of generating credit demand than herdsmen with low openness. Their likelihood of obtaining credit is also 33.47% higher than herdsmen with low emotional and psychological characteristics. They also have easy access to higher loan amounts. The results provide a reference for related research and analysis of herdsman’s credit behavior and economic development.

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“…Among the populations of these countries, the most vulnerable are the most affected [28]. Indeed, vulnerable populations such as women are the most affected by droughts, as they are more often employed in the agricultural sector [28][29][30]. Although the impacts of drought on agricultural production are well documented, little is known about the exact consequences on gender disparities.…”

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Drought Impacts on the Crop Sector and Adaptation Options in Burkina Faso: A Gender-Focused Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Sawadogo

2022

Sustainability

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The crop sector in Burkina Faso has been facing recurrent droughts since 1970. This study analyzes the impacts of droughts and adaptation options such as the use of irrigation capacity development methods, integrated soil management and drought-tolerant crop varieties on the crop sector. Indeed, we focus on the consequences of agricultural droughts on economic growth and employment and on the gender dimension of household poverty. Using a gendered dynamic computable general equilibrium model linked to a microsimulation model, we conduct simulations of various drought scenarios (mild, moderate and severe). We show that the mild, moderate and intense droughts experienced by Burkina Faso over the past ten years have negatively affected the country’s economic performance and considerably degraded the welfare of its households. The gross domestic product has fallen by 3.0% in the short term and 3.3% in the long term due to intense droughts. Moreover, the number of poor people is growing faster in male-headed households than in female-headed households. Given the large female population in both groups of households, women bear the brunt of droughts. These results also demonstrate how these negative impacts could worsen in the future with the recurrence of intense droughts due to the threat of global climate change. We find that Burkina Faso has room to reduce the negative impacts by adopting drought-tolerant crop varieties, integrated soil management approaches or expanding their irrigation capacity.

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Pastoral coping and adaptation climate change strategies: Implications for women's well-being

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Climate Change and Gender in Africa: A Review of Impact and Gender-Responsive Solutions

Climate Change and Gender in Africa: A Review of Impact and Gender-Responsive Solutions

Analysis of Herdsmen’s Credit Behavior under the Identification Scheme of Emotional and Psychological State

Drought Impacts on the Crop Sector and Adaptation Options in Burkina Faso: A Gender-Focused Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

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