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“Gender is for Everybody”
This was our Awareness Month May “Climate Needs Equality - Climate Change Cannot Be Solved Without Women”. It was all about gender equality – and also inequality as the unfortunate status quo – and its connection to climate change, specifically in coffee-growing...
Women’s Climate Action Starts with Education
Women at the Forefront of Climate ImpactsClimate change has emerged as one of the most pressing and urgent issues of our time, especially impacting farming communities and smallholder families. Rising temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns are far-reaching,...
Online Expert Discussion: “Climate Needs Equality – Climate Change Cannot Be Solved Without Women”
Climate change and gender equality are inextricably linked. On the one hand, traditional gender roles and patriarchal systems unbalance the impact of climate change on men and women. They make women more vulnerable to it: Women and girls are those who carry a heavier...
Women Smallholders Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
In rural farming communities, women are often in charge of ensuring their families’ supply of food, water, and energy sources such as firewood. In many households, women also do up to 90 % of the agricultural labor to produce crops for food and income. As a result,...
Climate Change and Women: Disproportionate Impact and Solutions
The impacts of climate change put a strain on smallholder families in many ways. Extreme temperatures, erratic and unpredictable rains, droughts, and floods affect smallholders’ production, livelihoods, and living conditions. Women, in particular, are more affected...