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15.6 Conclusions
There is substantial interest and merit in pursuing gender-sensitive integrated
approaches to the three post-2015 agendas: the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable
Development Goals and the Sendai Framework. To effectively achieve the goals of
all three agendas, understanding the nexus between gender, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in agriculture will help to enhance coherence between
the frameworks and more efficiently utilize limited resources in the face of economic
impacts of disasters.
Gender issues intersect with many aspects of DRR and ultimately contribute in
shaping the lives of both men and women, hence should, therefore, be a basis of
DRR efforts by making sure that views and needs of both men and women must are
identified and addressed while building their resilience to disasters so that hidden
gender biases do not limit the impact of any intervention.
DRR and disaster risk management, which are critical to resilience and adaptation
should be gender-sensitive and systematically embedded into the agricultural sector
and sub sectoral development plants and investment, especially in countries of the
Southern Africa and the Asia Pacific, where disasters are recurrent and agriculture
is the backbone of the economy and source of livelihood and nutrition.
This chapter, highlighting the importance of gender-oriented policies in DRR
frameworks at national and international levels will set the stage for further research,
policy development and action on gender-sensitive integrated approaches to pursuing
adaptation, sustainable development and disaster risk reduction in Southern Africa
and the Asia Pacific regions.
References
Ali S, Liu Y, Ishaq M, Shah T, Ilyas A, Din I (2017) Climate change and its impact on the yield of
major food crops: evidence from Pakistan. Foods 6(6):39
ADB (2017) Key indicators for Asia and Pacific. Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
Asseng S, Foster I, Turner NC (2011) The impact of temperature variability on wheat yields. Glob
Change Biol 17:997–1012. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02262.x
Awojobi ON, Tetteh J (2017) The impacts of climate change in Africa: a review of the scientific
literature. J Int Acad Res Multidiscipl 5(11):39–52
Bernier Q, Meinzen-Dick RS, Kristjanson P, Haglund E, Kovarik C, Bryan E,… Ringler C (2015)
Gender and institutional aspects of climate smart agricultural practices: evidence from Kenya
(CCAFS Working Paper No. 79). CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture
and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen. Retrieved from https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/bitstr
eams/53043/retrieve
291
15.6 Conclusions
There is substantial interest and merit in pursuing gender-sensitive integrated
approaches to the three post-2015 agendas: the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable
Development Goals and the Sendai Framework. To effectively achieve the goals of
all three agendas, understanding the nexus between gender, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in agriculture will help to enhance coherence between
the frameworks and more efficiently utilize limited resources in the face of economic
impacts of disasters.
Gender issues intersect with many aspects of DRR and ultimately contribute in
shaping the lives of both men and women, hence should, therefore, be a basis of
DRR efforts by making sure that views and needs of both men and women must are
identified and addressed while building their resilience to disasters so that hidden
gender biases do not limit the impact of any intervention.
DRR and disaster risk management, which are critical to resilience and adaptation
should be gender-sensitive and systematically embedded into the agricultural sector
and sub sectoral development plants and investment, especially in countries of the
Southern Africa and the Asia Pacific, where disasters are recurrent and agriculture
is the backbone of the economy and source of livelihood and nutrition.
This chapter, highlighting the importance of gender-oriented policies in DRR
frameworks at national and international levels will set the stage for further research,
policy development and action on gender-sensitive integrated approaches to pursuing
adaptation, sustainable development and disaster risk reduction in Southern Africa
and the Asia Pacific regions.
References
Ali S, Liu Y, Ishaq M, Shah T, Ilyas A, Din I (2017) Climate change and its impact on the yield of
major food crops: evidence from Pakistan. Foods 6(6):39
ADB (2017) Key indicators for Asia and Pacific. Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
Asseng S, Foster I, Turner NC (2011) The impact of temperature variability on wheat yields. Glob
Change Biol 17:997–1012. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02262.x
Awojobi ON, Tetteh J (2017) The impacts of climate change in Africa: a review of the scientific
literature. J Int Acad Res Multidiscipl 5(11):39–52
Bernier Q, Meinzen-Dick RS, Kristjanson P, Haglund E, Kovarik C, Bryan E,… Ringler C (2015)
Gender and institutional aspects of climate smart agricultural practices: evidence from Kenya
(CCAFS Working Paper No. 79). CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture
and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen. Retrieved from https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/bitstr
eams/53043/retrieve