The Unjust Climate: Bridging the Gap for Women in Agriculture

FAO's new report – The unjust climate: Measuring the impact of climate change on the poor, women, and youth – demonstrates how climate stressors widen the income gap among rural people along the lines of class, gender, and age. By combining socioeconomic data from over 950 million rural people across 24 countries with over 70 years of climate data, this report reveals how climate change has adversely impacted female-headed households' livelihoods to a greater degree than male-headed households.

Despite the pronounced and disproportionate impacts of climate change on women, these issues remain barely visible in national climate policies and associated climate financing. There is an urgent need to increase awareness of these disparate climate impacts and to direct additional resources towards women's empowerment and women farmers' resilience.

Please join the CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program to discuss the unequal impacts of climate change on rural women in agriculture and the critical investments needed to address these disparities.

Date: Friday, March 8

Time: 11:00AM - 12PM EST 

CSIS is honored to welcome Deputy Director Lauren Phillips and Senior Economist Nicholas Sitko from FAO’s Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality for opening remarks, followed by keynote remarks from USDA's Xochitl Torres Small, a panel discussion between USAID's Ann Vaughan and U.S. Department of State's Christina Chan, and concluding remarks from FAO’s Chief Economist Máximo Torero.

Register to attend in-person or via webcast here.

This event is made possible through the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.