Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia

Research suggests that extreme weather events have a negative impact on agricultural income and wellbeing of smallholder households. Climate change induced shocks can also a ect people's ability to work, thereby, in uence their decisions on labor or time allocation. Very few studies have conside...

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Main Author: Arora, Diksha
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99725
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description Research suggests that extreme weather events have a negative impact on agricultural income and wellbeing of smallholder households. Climate change induced shocks can also a ect people's ability to work, thereby, in uence their decisions on labor or time allocation. Very few studies have considered this impact, mainly at the economy-wide level. There is a huge gap in the evidence of micro level impact of climate change on time-use among agricultural households. In this paper, I analyze the impact of a prolonged weather shock [drought] on labor allocation, primarily time-use of small- scale livestock herders. Adopting a gender lens to the analysis, the paper examines gender di erences in the e ects of the climate shock. The ndings suggest that although both men and women became time poorer as a result of coping with the e ects of the drought, women who already managed the double burden of productive and reproductive activities became worse o .
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spelling CGSpace997252024-01-23T12:04:41Z Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia Arora, Diksha food security agriculture climate change genero gender role of women papel de la mujer Research suggests that extreme weather events have a negative impact on agricultural income and wellbeing of smallholder households. Climate change induced shocks can also a ect people's ability to work, thereby, in uence their decisions on labor or time allocation. Very few studies have considered this impact, mainly at the economy-wide level. There is a huge gap in the evidence of micro level impact of climate change on time-use among agricultural households. In this paper, I analyze the impact of a prolonged weather shock [drought] on labor allocation, primarily time-use of small- scale livestock herders. Adopting a gender lens to the analysis, the paper examines gender di erences in the e ects of the climate shock. The ndings suggest that although both men and women became time poorer as a result of coping with the e ects of the drought, women who already managed the double burden of productive and reproductive activities became worse o . 2019-02-25 2019-02-27T13:21:23Z 2019-02-27T13:21:23Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99725 en Open Access application/pdf Arora, D. 2019. Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles: Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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role of women
papel de la mujer
Arora, Diksha
Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia
title Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia
title_full Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia
title_fullStr Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia
title_short Activity Report: Extreme weather events (drought) and its impact on assets, livelihoods and gender roles Case study of small-scale livestock herders in Cauca, Colombia
title_sort activity report extreme weather events drought and its impact on assets livelihoods and gender roles case study of small scale livestock herders in cauca colombia
topic food security
agriculture
climate change
genero
gender
role of women
papel de la mujer
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99725
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