WEATHERING THE DRUDGE REPORT AT CLIMATIC CHANGE
Weathering the storm or storming the norms?
Moving gender equality forward in climate-resilient agriculture
- Sophia Huyer
- Samuel Partey
This article is part of a Special Issue on “Gender Responsive Climate Smart Agriculture: Framework, Approaches and Technologies”
Edited by Sophia Huyer and Samuel Tetteh Partey
Potential of climate-smart agriculture in reducing women farmers’ drudgery in high climatic risk areas
- Arun Khatri-Chhetri
- Punya Prasad Regmi
- Nitya Chanana
- Pramod K. Aggarwal First Online: 17 January 2019
Abstract
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has a significant role to play in reducing the gender gap in labor burden for women in agriculture.
A targeted approach to address this gap can be useful in developing a women-responsive climatic risk management plan focused on reducing their labor burden in agriculture, especially in areas with high climate risks.
The paper therefore presents a top–down approach to identify potential labor-saving CSA technologies for women farmers in areas facing high climate risks. It involves mapping women in agriculture, climate risks, and poverty hotspots and entails understanding the role of women in agricultural activities to identify the suitable CSA options for reducing the levels of labor drudgery... for Nepal where feminization of agriculture is rapidly increasing,
