Method
Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture
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Women and men are affected by climate change impacts in different ways, and have different opportunities and resources that can help them respond.
Climate change adaptation and mitigation actions, policies and investments must take such differences into account to be successful. Women can be drivers of climate change responses when agricultural climate change solutions—such as climate-smart agriculture—are designed to work for them.
Explore below a selection of tools and methods (curated by GENDER and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization) and publications (curated by GENDER, FAO and Global Knowledge Initiative) on gender and climate-smart agriculture.
Learn more about GKI's evidence library on gender and climate-smart agriculture.
Methods, tools, manuals
Publications
Working Paper
Gender-smart agriculture: An agenda for gender and socially inclusive climate-resilient agriculture
Huyer S. 2021. Gender-smart agriculture: An agenda for gender and socially inclusive climate-resilient agriculture. CCAFS Working Paper No.404. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Report
Learning agenda: Climate-smart agriculture and gender
Puskur, R. and Mishra, A. 2024. Learning agenda: Climate-smart agriculture and gender. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.
Working Paper
Climate change and food security vulnerability assessment: Toolkit for assessing community-level potential for adaptation to climate change
Ulrichs, Martina, Terry Cannon, Andrew Newsham, Lars Otto Naess, and Mipsie Marshall. 2015. Climate Change and Food Security Vulnerability Assessment: Toolkit for Assessing Community-Level Potential for Adaptation to Climate Change. Working Paper No. 108. Copenhagen: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Training Material
Gender in climate-smart agriculture projects: Self-paced e-learning
World Bank Group. n.d. Gender in Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects (self-paced): Self-Paced eLearning. Open Learning Campus. World Bank Group.
Report / Factsheet
Intersectionality resource guide and toolkit: An intersectional approach to leave no one behind
UN Women. 2021. Intersectionality Resource Guide and Toolkit: An Intersectional Approach to Leave No One Behind. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
Report
Climate resilient and empowering livelihoods for women
Hafiza, Sheepa, and Sharmind Neelormi. 2015. Climate Resilient and Empowering Livelihoods for Women. Dhaka: UN Women.
Digital Material
Climate-smart agriculture sourcebook
FAO. 2017. Climate Smart Agriculture Sourcebook. 2nd edn. https://www.fao.org/climate-smart-agriculture-sourcebook/en/. Last accessed 9 June 2022.
Publication
Climate vulnerability and capacity analysis handbook
CARE. 2019. Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis. 2nd edn. Online. Accessed 3 June 2022. https://careclimatechange.org/cvca/.
Scientific Publication
Gender transformation in a new global urban agenda: challenges for Habitat III and beyond
Moser, Caroline O.N. 2016. Gender transformation in a new global urban agenda: challenges for Habitat III and beyond. Environment and Urbanization 29, no. 1: 221–236.
Report
Mapping hotspots of climate change and food insecurity in the global tropics
Ericksen, Polly J., Philip K. Thornton, An Maria Omer Notenbaert, Laura Cramer, Peter G. Jones, and Mario T. Herrero. 2011. Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics. Copenhagen: CCAFS.
Book / Monograph
Filling buckets, fuelling change: Ensuring gender-responsive climate change adaptation
Pionetti, Carine. 2016. Filling Buckets, Fuelling Change: Ensuring Gender-Responsive Climate Change Adaptation. New York: United Nations Development Progamme.
Report
Gender and climate change: Synthesis of IDRC's support to climate change research
Nordehn, Caitlin, and Deborah Rubin. 2018. Gender and Climate Change: Synthesis of IDRC’s Support to Climate Change Research. International Development Research Centre.