On March 8 the world celebrates International Women’s Day—a day dedicated to raising awareness on the importance of achieving gender parity in the working world. To understand women’s role in agriculture and to close the gender gap in agricultural production, IFPRI research has been examining gender differences within rural households and communities for over 25 years.One challenge that both men and women face is increasing resilience to growing climate threats. Gender-disaggregated data from a study in Bangladesh, Kenya, Senegal, and Uganda, which was conducted in partnership with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), showed that men and women respond differently to climate change given considerable variations in perceptions, preferences, needs, and priorities. Women often lack access to information and resources needed to adapt to perceived climate changes. Therefore, closing the gender gap in agriculture would enable women to contribute to making agriculture and rural livelihoods more resilient.
LEDS Modelling Workshop – Adapting IFPRI tools and methodologies to the Colombian policy context
cross post from Globalfutures.cgiar.org by Daniel Mason-D’Croz Bogota, Colombia A workshop dedicated to presenting tools developed at IFPRI and their potential for use in Colombia was given with the participation and collaboration of the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development (MADR), the CGIAR Program for Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS), and the Inter-American Institute for […]
Low Emission Development Strategies for Agriculture and Other Land Uses: The Case of Colombia.
By Alex De Pinto, Senior Research Fellow It is widely recognized that natural resource use in many developing countries, from crop production to deforestation, is responsible for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions. We also know that, in many countries, the agricultural and forestry sectors can provide low-cost climate change mitigation opportunities. As countries experience […]
Climate Smart Solutions for African Farmers : The time is now!
Cross-posted from ccafs.cgiar.org Better management of agricultural risk today can help farming systems adapt to increased weather and climate extremes in the future. More extreme floods, storms and drought. Increased outbreaks of pests and disease. And even more uncertainty about what the growing season will bring. Climate change will likely heighten these risks to agriculture, […]
Featured originally on IFPRI Blog : UN International Day of Rural Women
by Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director, Environment & Production Technology Division We know more and more about what our planet faces as climate change intensifies and greenhouse gas emissions lead us on a probably irreversible path of global warming and uncertain rainfall patterns, at least for the next four decades. As policymakers prepare foranother round of climate change […]
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