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: Received: 23 June 2020 / Approved: 24 June 2020 / Online: 24 June 2020 (14:31:37 CEST)
How to cite:
Glazebrook, T.; Noll, S.; Opoku, E. Gender Matters: Climate Change, Gender Bias, and Women's Farming in the Global South and North. Preprints2020, 2020060302. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0302.v1
Glazebrook, T.; Noll, S.; Opoku, E. Gender Matters: Climate Change, Gender Bias, and Women's Farming in the Global South and North. Preprints 2020, 2020060302. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0302.v1
Glazebrook, T.; Noll, S.; Opoku, E. Gender Matters: Climate Change, Gender Bias, and Women's Farming in the Global South and North. Preprints2020, 2020060302. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0302.v1
APA Style
Glazebrook, T., Noll, S., & Opoku, E. (2020). Gender Matters: Climate Change, Gender Bias, and Women's Farming in the Global South and North. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0302.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Glazebrook, T., Samantha Noll and Emmanuela Opoku. 2020 "Gender Matters: Climate Change, Gender Bias, and Women's Farming in the Global South and North" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0302.v1
Abstract
Can investing in women’s agriculture increase productivity? This paper argues that it can. We assess climate impacts and gender bias on women’s production in the global South and North and challenge the male model of agricultural development to argue further that women’s farming approaches can be more sustainable. Level-based analysis (global, regional, local) draws on literature review, including authors’ published longitudinal field research in Ghana and the United States. Women farmers are shown to be undervalued and to work harder, with fewer resources, for less compensation; gender bias challenges are shared globally while economic disparities differentiate; breaches of distributive, gender, and intergenerational justices as well as compromise of food sovereignty affect women everywhere. We conclude that investing in women’s agriculture needs more than standard approaches of capital and technology investment. Effective ‘investment’ would include systemic interventions into agricultural policy, governance, education, and industry; be directed at men as well as women; and use gender metrics, e.g. quotas, budgets, vulnerability and impacts assessments, to generate assessment reports and track gender parity in agriculture. Increasing women’s access, capacity, and productivity cannot succeed without men’s awareness and proactivity. Systemic change can increase productivity and sustainability.
Keywords
Africa/Ghana; climate change; farming/farmers; food security; gender inequality; global South/North; hunger; justice; land
Subject
Social Sciences, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
