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Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation

01/03/2009

15 pages long

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Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation

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This article focuses on the sustainability of gendered agricultural income-generating activities in Sonora, near the Mexico-USA border, in the context of climate change. Farming, and fruit and vegetable home-processing enterprises, still predominate in the area. However, several types of fruits can no longer be produced in this area due to warmer temperatures. Climate change has […]

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Women’s rights in climate change: using video as a tool for empowerment in Nepal

01/03/2009

10 pages long

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Women’s rights in climate change: using video as a tool for empowerment in Nepal

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An innovative Action Aid-supplied project in Nepal has seen women’s empowerment make rapid progress through the use of video discussions about climate change. In this exploration of the project, we ask what we can learn from the use of such technology, and consider the implications for international development agencies and their efforts to support women’s […]

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Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions

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Rapid changes to the climate are predicted over the next few years, and these present challenges for women’s empowerment and gender equality on a completely new scale. There is little evidence or research to provide a reliable basis for gender-sensitive approaches to agricultural adaptation to climate change. This article explores the gender dimensions of climate […]

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Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward

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The United Nations is formally committed to gender mainstreaming in all policies and programmes, and that should include policy-making processes relating to climate change. Yet gender aspects are rarely addressed in climate-change policy, either at the national or at the international levels. Reasons include gaps in gender-sensitive data and knowledge about the links between gender […]

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No climate justice without gender justice: an overview of the issues

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Both climate change itself and related policies are likely to have wide-ranging effects on gender relations, especially in developing countries. Poor women face many gender-specific barriers that limit their ability to cope with and adapt to a changing climate; these must be removed in the interests of both gender equity and adaptation efficiency. At the […]

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The bio-fuel frenzy: what options for rural women? A case of rural development schizophrenia

01/03/2009

15 pages long

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The bio-fuel frenzy: what options for rural women? A case of rural development schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia, from the Greek roots schizein (‘to split’) and phren (‘mind’), is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterised by impairments in the perception or expression of reality. The key message of this article is that mainstream agricultural policy is at odds with what needs to happen on the ground, and is being […]

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Introduction

01/03/2009

3 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Briefing paper

Turning Carbon into Gold: How the international community can finance climate change adaptation without breaking the bank

02/12/2008

3 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Recognizing that poor communities in developing countries are the least responsible for climate change but most vulnerable to its impacts, the Bali Action Plan calls for ‘new and additional resources’ and ‘innovative finance mechanisms’ to address urgent climate adaptation needs. Oxfam suggests that new financing mechanisms linked to emissions reduction regimes could be the way […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights: Putting people at the heart of climate change policy

09/09/2008

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: Chinese, English, French, Polish, Portuguese

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Climate finance

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Climate change is set to undermine human rights on a massive scale. International human-rights law states that, ‘In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.’ But – as the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has documented in detail – rich countries’ continued excessive greenhouse-gas emissions are depriving millions […]

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Briefing paper

Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

18/08/2008

3 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world. Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. This paper explains the policies required to enable sustainable and productive pastoralist communities to cope with the […]

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