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Book (stand-alone)The unjust climate
Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women and youth
2024Also available in:
No results found.Developing policies to foster inclusive rural transformation processes requires better evidence on how climate change is affecting the livelihoods and economic behaviours of vulnerable rural people, including women, youths and people living in poverty. In particular, there is little comparative, multi-country and multi-region evidence to understand how exposure to weather shocks and climate change affects the drivers of rural transformation and adaptive actions across different segments of rural societies and in different agro-ecological contexts. This evidence is essential because, while climate risk and adaptive actions are context specific and require local solutions, global evidence is important for identifying shared vulnerabilities and priority actions for scaling up effective responses. This report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty. It analyses socioeconomic data collected from 109 341 rural households (representing over 950 million rural people) in these 24 countries. These data are combined in both space and time with 70 years of georeferenced data on daily precipitation and temperatures. The data enable us to disentangle how different types of climate stressors affect people’s on-farm, off-farm and total incomes, labour allocations and adaptive actions, depending on their wealth, gender and age characteristics. -
BookletWomen’s employment in agrifood systems
Background paper for The status of women in agrifood systems
2023Also available in:
No results found.Tackling poverty and food insecurity requires research and policies that go beyond the agriculture sector and consider the entire agrifood system. Women play important roles in agrifood systems, but their work in the different segments of agrifood systems is poorly captured. This paper produces global and regional estimates of the share of working women and men employed in agrifood systems, differentiating between primary agricultural production and off-farm agrifood-system activities. It looks at the gender patterns of employment in the different activities of agrifood systems between 2005 and 2019 and at how these patterns changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study finds that, despite decreases in the share of working men and women employed in agrifood systems over the past 15 years, agrifood systems remain an important source of livelihood for both men and women, but especially for women in low- and middle-income countries. However, women’s working conditions tend to be more vulnerable than men’s in both agriculture and off-farm agrifood systems. The paper also highlights methodological issues around the measurement of women’s employment in agrifood systems, which can have important implications for the design of livelihoods interventions. Background paper to the FAO flagship The status of women in agrifood systems https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/CC5060EN . -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetUnlocking rural finance for inclusive agrifood systems 2023
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No results found.The provision of financial services to rural smallholder households, including savings, credit, insurance and payments, remains among the most difficult challenges in finance and development. Despite progress in the extension of these services to rural areas, rural finance ecosystems in low- and middle-income countries remain fragmented due to high transaction costs associated with the uneven and disperse distribution of populations, inadequate infrastructures and unexpected threats to agricultural productivity. As a result, small-scale actors and most marginalized groups – such as women and youth – remain largely excluded from access to finance and investment. Developing and scaling up inclusive financial solutions is key to improve the livelihoods and resilience of the most vulnerable people, reduce inequalities and poverty, end food insecurity and malnutrition, and promote the sustainable use of natural resources in order to build sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems that leave no one behind.
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