Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries
Gender disparities in climate change vulnerability not only reflect preexisting gender inequalities, but they also reinforce them. Inequalities in the ownership and control of household assets and rising familial burdens due to male outmigration, declining food and water access and increased disaste...
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| author | Heesemann, Esther Kluth, Jessika Nico, Gianluigi Cavatassi, Romina Sitko, Nicholas Azzarri, Carlo |
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| description | Gender disparities in climate change vulnerability not only reflect preexisting gender inequalities, but they also reinforce them. Inequalities in the ownership and control of household assets and rising familial burdens due to male outmigration, declining food and water access and increased disaster exposure can undermine women’s abilities to achieve economic independence. Our study looks at gender-related inequality and climate vulnerability, aiming at quantifying how climate shocks and stressors influence income and agriculture-related outcomes across households, with differing levels of gender equality in agricultural decision-making, and estimating to what extent gendered differences in productivity, income, labor, and farm investments are affected by exposure to climate shocks. Our study takes advantage of nationally representative LSMSISA household surveys from eight countries in Africa, south of the Sahara (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda), matched with gridcell monthly time-series bioclimatic variables (temperature, rainfall, SPI, SPEI), to identify climate shocks and weather variability. We use a multivariate regression framework to estimate elasticities of climate shocks, capturing also nonlinearities along the distributions of outcome variables using a quantile regression model. Results show that climate shocks and weather variability exert a disproportionate negative effect on women in all dimensions considered that call for local advocacy initiatives in support of labor market policies for climate adaptation. Sustainable, 40 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS climate-resilient policies and interventions on the labor market remain a key priority, alongside vulnerable group protection in planning and promoting agriculture- and job-related programs. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1370692025-11-06T06:38:18Z Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries Heesemann, Esther Kluth, Jessika Nico, Gianluigi Cavatassi, Romina Sitko, Nicholas Azzarri, Carlo gender agriculture research gender relations woomen's empowerment Gender disparities in climate change vulnerability not only reflect preexisting gender inequalities, but they also reinforce them. Inequalities in the ownership and control of household assets and rising familial burdens due to male outmigration, declining food and water access and increased disaster exposure can undermine women’s abilities to achieve economic independence. Our study looks at gender-related inequality and climate vulnerability, aiming at quantifying how climate shocks and stressors influence income and agriculture-related outcomes across households, with differing levels of gender equality in agricultural decision-making, and estimating to what extent gendered differences in productivity, income, labor, and farm investments are affected by exposure to climate shocks. Our study takes advantage of nationally representative LSMSISA household surveys from eight countries in Africa, south of the Sahara (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda), matched with gridcell monthly time-series bioclimatic variables (temperature, rainfall, SPI, SPEI), to identify climate shocks and weather variability. We use a multivariate regression framework to estimate elasticities of climate shocks, capturing also nonlinearities along the distributions of outcome variables using a quantile regression model. Results show that climate shocks and weather variability exert a disproportionate negative effect on women in all dimensions considered that call for local advocacy initiatives in support of labor market policies for climate adaptation. Sustainable, 40 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS climate-resilient policies and interventions on the labor market remain a key priority, alongside vulnerable group protection in planning and promoting agriculture- and job-related programs. 2023-10-10 2024-01-04T12:47:11Z 2024-01-04T12:47:11Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137069 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Heesemann, Esther; Kluth, Jessika; Nico, Gianluigi; Cavatassi, Romina; Sitko, Nicholas; Azzarri, Carlo. 2023. Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries. Poster. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137069 |
| spellingShingle | gender agriculture research gender relations woomen's empowerment Heesemann, Esther Kluth, Jessika Nico, Gianluigi Cavatassi, Romina Sitko, Nicholas Azzarri, Carlo Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries |
| title | Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries |
| title_full | Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries |
| title_fullStr | Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries |
| title_short | Women power! Gender-related inequality in agricultural income generation: Empirical evidence from eight African countries |
| title_sort | women power gender related inequality in agricultural income generation empirical evidence from eight african countries |
| topic | gender agriculture research gender relations woomen's empowerment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137069 |
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