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Briefing paper

Close to Home : UK poverty and the economic downturn

08/04/2009

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The UK is in recession, and things stand to get much worse for the fifth of the population already living in poverty, and for the millions more whose livelihoods will become more vulnerable as a result. The UK government has recognised its responsibility to help people through the recession, but needs to do more to […]

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Briefing paper

4-a-week: Changing food consumption in the UK to benefit people and planet

06/03/2009

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Food security

Overview

The food we buy every week can have huge impacts on people and environments seemingly worlds away from our regular dash round the shops. The futures of some of the world’s poorest people and of the global environment are intimately linked to the contents of our shopping baskets. How we shop, what we eat, and […]

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Journal article

Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance

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This article examines the role of sustainable technology in tackling climate change in developing countries. Drawing on solar home systems in Bangladesh as an example, it argues that increasing women’s visibility in technology committees is not necessarily effective in challenging gender stereotypes. Crafting new rules may fail to confront power inequalities. Sustainable technology can exert […]

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Journal article

Building gendered approaches to adaptation in the Pacific

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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Building gendered approaches to adaptation in the Pacific

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This article reflects upon how gendered approaches to climate-change adaptation can be strengthened in the Pacific region. The article looks at what has been learnt in the region, surveys some examples of best practice in gender-responsive programming, identifies the challenges we face on our journey, and suggests future directions. It is a collaborative effort, comprising […]

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Journal article

Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

01/03/2009

17 pages long

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Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India

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Overview

Most policy makers and practitioners have now started to recognise the different ways in which climate change impacts on poor, vulnerable, and socially excluded women and men. However, making adaptation policies and programmes sensitive to gender issues does not simply mean ‘adding on’ a concern for women. It also requires a nuanced understanding of gendered […]

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Journal article

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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Journal article

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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Journal article

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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Journal article

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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Overview

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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Journal article

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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