Women's role in adapting to climate change and variability

Carvajal-Escobar, Yesid; Quintero-Ángel, Mauricio; García-Vargas, M.

doi:10.5194/adgeo-14-277-2008

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“…Women play a central role in socio-economic development as food producers, health-care providers, and providers of reproductive tasks. As a consequence of their different roles and responsibilities, women have different energy needs from men, both for domestic and productive uses, and energy policies and plans rarely offer due consideration to their needs, concerns and contributions to development [60][61][62]. Gender-neutral policies related to energy and enterprises tend to benefit men more than women because women face higher barriers and restrictions in setting up and running enterprises, as we will discuss in depth elsewhere in this paper.…”

Section: Fuelling Women's Empowerment: Gender Equality and Energy Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Groot

Mohlakoana

Knox

et al. 2017

Energy Research & Social Science

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A B S T R A C TThis interdisciplinary review paper explores linkages between access to energy, women's empowerment and entrepreneurship. This will be discussed in the context of the informal food sector. Despite expectations that access to energy for productive uses empowers women by enabling them to generate an income, women in developing countries face a range of barriers when establishing and operating enterprises, including access to energy. The literature reviewed in this paper suggests that, although improved access to energy for women in the informal food sector may create a range of benefits for women, the empirical evidence base upon which such claims are made is limited. Access to a range of energy services suitable to their enterprise would provide women with building blocks to operate their enterprise, alleviate restrictions on growth, increase their sustainability, and provide them with increased control over enterprise operation. These may help to create an enabling environment for empowerment, rather than directly contributing to it. Consideration of the gendered dynamics and logics of entrepreneurship in the design of development interventions, in particular with regard to motivations for operating an enterprise, spatial distribution of enterprises, growth strategies and risk behaviour, may lead to more sustainable and empowered enterprises in the long-term.

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Section: Fuelling Women's Empowerment: Gender Equality and Energy Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Groot

Mohlakoana

Knox

et al. 2017

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…On the other hand, the increasing role that rural women are playing in smallholder agriculture provides an important opportunity to positively impact food production and security in a changing climate (Carvajal-Escobar, Quintero-Angel, & Garcıa-Vargas, 2008). It has been estimated that if rural women had the same access to agricultural resources as men, yields could increase by 20-30% and the total number of hungry people around the world reduced by 12-17% (FAO, 2011).…”

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Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities

Jost

Kyazze

Naab³

et al. 2015

Climate and Development

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In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. Policy and programmerelevant results were obtained. Smallholders are changing agricultural practices due to observations of climatic and environmental change. Women appear to be less adaptive because of financial or resource constraints, because of male domination in receiving information and extension services and because available adaptation strategies tend to create higher labour loads for women. The climate analogue approach (identifying places resembling your future climate so as to identify potential adaptations) is a promising tool for increasing farmer-to-farmer learning, where a high degree of climatic variability means that analogue villages that have successfully adopted new CSA practices exist nearby. Institutional issues related to forecast production limit their credibility and salience, particularly in terms of women's ability to access and understand them. The participatory tools used in this study provided some insights into women's adaptive capacity in the villages studied, but not to the depth necessary to address women's specific vulnerabilities in CSA programmes. Further research is necessary to move the discourse related to gender and climate change beyond the conceptualization of women as a homogenously vulnerable group in CSA programmes.

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“…Limiting the participation of women entirely by their experience as a group vulnerable to changing political, economic, and ecological environments only reflects one type of experience with these environments. Women are also important natural resource managers, forest users, and members of their communities (Dankelman, 2002;Fulu, 2007;Carvajal-Escobar, Quintero-Angel & Garcia-Vargas, 2008;Nelson & Stathers, 2009;Glazebrook, 2011). They are vulnerable to a changing environment and degraded and deforested forests, but they are also contributors to these processes.…”

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Gender Mainstreaming Principles in Indonesia’s REDD+ Program A Document Analysis

Wornell¹,

Tickamyer²,

Kusujiarti³

2015

JSD

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This paper analyzes publically available, published documents to conduct a systematic review of the inclusion of gender mainstreaming principles in documents related to one of the largest, most important international forest-preservation projects, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). Although more than 60 countries have adopted REDD+ initiatives, this document analysis focuses specifically on REDD+ in Indonesia, both because of its early adoption of REDD+ and as one of the most ecologically diverse and environmentally important countries in the world. Of the 383 documents reviewed, only 88 were found to include any mention of gender, and of those, very few included gender mainstreaming principles to a level that could be considered integrated and substantive. The distinct lack of these widely touted but seldom implemented principles should be of concern to international and national policy makers, and taken under serious consideration during the forthcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 meetings in Paris. Moreover, this analysis is the first step to identifying where women's voices may still be silent, and lays the groundwork for more extensive, on the ground research of REDD+ project sites to evaluate the extent to which gender mainstreaming is or is not incorporated into actual project implementation in Indonesia.

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Women's role in adapting to climate change and variability

Cited by 60 publications

References 10 publications

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities

Gender Mainstreaming Principles in Indonesia’s REDD+ Program A Document Analysis

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