Abstract
Much of the literature examining the role of gender in processes of climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector has focused primarily on differences between male and female farmers, implicitly treating men and women as homogenous groups. Where heterogeneity exists within these groups which impacts climate change adaptation efforts and outcomes, an understanding of such intersectionalities is vital to the design of effective and equitable policy. The objective of this study is to investigate whether interaction effects among socio-economic factors are meaningful drivers of observed differences among female farmers in their adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices, as well as their use of climate information and financial services. This study employs data from farmer surveys in three Climate-Smart Villages in Latin America, analyzed using ordinal logistic regression and canonical correspondence analysis. The results indicate that important interaction effects are present: the relationship between higher educational attainment and increased adoption of CSA practices, for example, is conditional on the degree of livelihood diversification. The relationship between greater educational attainment and increased use of climate forecasts is likewise conditional on age. These results suggest the need for researchers and policymakers to anticipate potential intersectionalities when designing research efforts and development interventions.
Highlights
Despite increasing global policy efforts towards protecting the rights of rural women, and the prominent place of gender equality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), gender inequalities in the agricultural sector continue to be pervasive and are at risk of being exacerbated by the threats and constraints that climate change poses to rural populations [1]
Women in the Honduran and Colombian Climate-Smart Villages’ (CSV) belong to the Chorti and Ladino ethnicities (Table 1)
This study has examined women’s differentiated access to climate-smart technical interventions in selected CSVs located in Latin America (i.e., Cauca CSV in Colombia, Olopa CSV in Guatemala, and Santa Rita CSV in Honduras)
Summary
Despite increasing global policy efforts towards protecting the rights of rural women, and the prominent place of gender equality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), gender inequalities in the agricultural sector continue to be pervasive and are at risk of being exacerbated by the threats and constraints that climate change poses to rural populations [1]. These gender inequalities have important consequences for the women themselves, but for their entire families, communities and, for the economic development of rural areas and of nations [2]. While the importance of considering how gender intersects with other social dimensions to create different degrees of vulnerability in agricultural development and in climate change adaptation is well established in the literature, these aspects of intersectionality are rarely explored in a thorough manner in practice [4]
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