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  Vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies of local communities in Malawi: experiences of women fish-processing groups in the Lake Chilwa Basin

  Earth System Dynamics, 2016

  In recent years, research on climate change and human security has received much attention among policy makers and academia alike.
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  Status of gender, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya : impacts and implications for livelihoods, and sustainable mountain development

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  The overarching recognition in all the literature is that climate change will have huge and largely detrimental impacts on vulnerable communities, and that gender will be a defining feature in shaping individuals’ experiences of adverse circumstances.
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  Gender, livestock and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Costa Rica

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Costa Rica is developing a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) that will provide climate finance for best livestock management practices that generate climate change mitigation benefits.
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  Women-led agroforestry and improved cookstoves in Honduras Field evaluation of farmer-led gender-transformative strategies for low emissions agriculture

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  This paper outlines the development of a women-led agroforestry and improved cookstoves project in Honduras. Analysis aims to contribute to learning for future projects, especially projects aiming to improve gender relations. The project intended to increase gender equity among smallholder farmers while reducing greenhouse gas emissions through agroforestry and fuel-efficient stoves.
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  Integrating gender into climate change adaptation programs: a research and capacity needs assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Research shows that paying attention to gender matters not only for the equity of climate change adaptation programs but also for their efficiency and effectiveness. Many organizations working to increase resilience to climate change with local communities also recognize the importance of gender yet the degree to which gender is integrated in project implementation is unclear.
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  Gender differences in climate change perception and adaptation strategies: A case study on three provinces in Vietnam's Mekong River Delta

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  This brief summarizes the findings of a project output for the Policy Information and Response Platform on Climate Change and Rice in ASEAN and its Member Countries (PIRCCA), being implemented by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). The report focuses on the
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  A gender approach to understanding the differentiated impact of barriers to adaptation: responses to climate change in rural Ethiopia

  Springerlink, 2016

  While adaptation has received a fair amount of attention in the climate change debate, barriers to adaptation are the focus of a more specific, recent discussion. In this discussion, such barriers are generally treated as having a uniform, negative impact on all actors.
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  Climate change adaptation in agriculture and natural resource management in Tanzania: a gender policy review

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  More than twenty years have passed since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where gender mainstreaming was acknowledged as an indispensable global strategy for achieving gender equality. Since then, Tanzania has undoubtedly made efforts in mainstreaming gender in its national policies and strategies.
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  Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

  Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions, 2016

  Vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered. Still, policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities’ adaptive capacity largely fail to recognise the gendered nature of everyday realities and experiences.Key points and recommendations:
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  Gender dynamics in a changing climate: how gender and adaptive capacity affect resilience

  CARE International, 2016

  Gender, climate change and adaptive capacity are intricately linked. Poor and marginalised women and men face multiple and complex challenges. Climate change further exacerbates these challenges and threatens to erode development gains made to date.

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