Where women in agri-food systems are at highest climate risk: a methodology for mapping climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots

• DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1197809
• Publication Date: 2023-11-16T11:52:15Z
• Authors: Els Lecoutere; Avni Mishra; Niyati Singaraju; Jawoo Koo; Carlo Azzarri; Nitya Chanana; Gianluigi Nico; Ranjitha Puskur
• Keywords: Vulnerability

Climate change poses a greater threat for more exposed and vulnerable countries, communities social groups. People whose livelihood depends on the agriculture food sector, especially in low- middle-income countries (LMICs), face significant risk. In contexts with gendered roles agri-food systems or where structural constraints to gender equality underlie unequal access resources services constrain women’s agency, local climate hazards stressors, such as droughts, floods, shortened crop-growing seasons, tend negatively affect women than men adaptive capacities be restrained men’s. Transformation toward just sustainable of will not only depend reducing but also averting aggravated inequality systems. this paper, we developed applied an accessible versatile methodology identify map localities high risk because exposure vulnerability. We label these climate-agriculture-gender hotspots. Applying our LMICs reveals that at highest are majorly situated Africa Asia. agricultural activity-specific hotspot subnational areas four focus Mali, Zambia, Pakistan Bangladesh, instance, identifies cluster districts Dhaka Mymensingh divisions Bangladesh rice. The relevance urgency identifying hits hardest is likely population groups sectors particularly increasingly acknowledged literature and, spirit leaving no one behind, development policy arenas. Hotspot maps can guide allocation scarce most-at-risk populations. show involved while signaling requires addressing barriers equality.