Gender discrimination multiplies the challenges women face from climate change, a new U.N. report says
CLIMATEWIRE | Women in much of the world are more prone than men to shocks related to drought and desertification because of systemic sexism, according to a U.N. report.
Without land titles or assets that can serve as collateral, women struggle to secure loans and credit that can help them recover from climate-related damages, the report notes. And without access to money and technology, women are less able to adopt sustainable land management practices that could help prevent additional climate damages or increase crop yields.
"Women are major actors in the global efforts to reduce and reverse land degradation. They restore land, they protect land, they cherish, nourish and care for the land, while also caring for others,” Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the Convention to Combat Desertification, writes in the introduction to the report.
The disadvantages are not spread evenly across all genders, notes the study. Other aspects of identity such as ethnicity, income, marriage status, disability status and rural or urban location also play an important role, it says. In many countries, women are limited in their ability to access or own land, and in more than 100 countries, women are denied the right to inherit property belonging to their husbands due to religious, customary or traditional laws.
The nearly 200 countries that are parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification adopted a gender action plan in 2017 that acknowledges the important role women play in land restoration and sustainable land management practices, and the report offers recommendations for how women’s participation can be improved regionally and globally.
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