Official UNFCCC side event at COP27: Reaching women farmers with climate resilience strategies in Africa and Asia
Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT.
Reaching women farmers with climate resilience strategies in Africa and Asia
Friday, November 11, 11:30-13:00 EET
This side event will explore gender-responsive approaches and solutions to growing climate resilience in complex situations.
Women and girls hold the key to strengthen climate resilience. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Münster University (WWU) have therefore convened this event to explore gender responsive approaches and solutions to growing climate resilience in complex situations of vulnerability and food insecurity, fragility and conflict.
How to join?
The event will be hybrid. Livestream available: https://bit.ly/UNFCCC-SideEvent.
You can also follow coverage of this event via the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and join the conversation on Twitter via @CGIARgender and #GenderInAg.
Live stream is scheduled for November 11, 2022.
Moderator
Keynote speaker
Anke Oppermann
Head of Directorate "Decent work worldwide; food and nutrition security" at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)Expert remarks
William Moseley
DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, and Director of the Program for Food, Agriculture & Society Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Claudia Ringler
Director, Natural Resources and Resilience International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Panel discussion: Voices from the field
Fatou Jeng
Policy Operations Lead for Women and Gender United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Youth Constituency (YOUNGO)
Mansi Shah
Program Manager for the Future of Work Activities Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)Conclusion
Tillmann Buttschardt
Professor for Applied Landscape Ecology and Ecological Planning University of Münster (Germany)