Sustainability and Social Justice
Document Type
Article
Abstract
While climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation- and temperature-related risks to agrarian livelihoods, such outcomes are possible only when they deliver information that is salient, legitimate, and credible to end users. This is particularly true of climate services intended to address the needs of women in agrarian contexts. The design of such gender-sensitive services is hampered by oversimplified framings of women as a group in both the adaptation and climate services literatures. This paper demonstrates that even at the village level, women have different climate and weather information needs, and differing abilities to act on that information. Therefore, starting with preconceived connections between identities and vulnerability is likely to result in overgeneralizations that hinder the ability to address the climate-related development and adaptation needs of the most vulnerable. Instead, as is demonstrated in this paper, the design and implementation of effective gender-sensitive climate services must start with the relevant social differences that shape people's livelihoods decisions and outcomes, including but not limited to gender.
Publication Title
Weather, Climate, and Society
Publication Date
7-1-2016
Volume
8
Issue
3
First Page
247
Last Page
264
ISSN
1948-8327
DOI
10.1175/WCAS-D-15-0075.1
Keywords
agriculture, climate change adaptation, gender, identity, intersectional, vulnerability
Repository Citation
Carr, Edward; Fleming, Grant; and Kalala, Tshibangu, "Understanding Women's Needs for Weather and Climate Information in Agrarian Settings: The Case of Ngetou Maleck, Senegal" (2016). Sustainability and Social Justice. 81.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/81
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