IFPRI Policy Seminar - The Unjust Climate: Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women, and youth

Webinar l 9:30 - 11:00 am EDT

In a recent report, "Unjust climate: Measuring the Impacts of climate change on rural poor, women and youth", the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations quantified the negative impacts of certain extreme climate events on poor rural households. The report, which included contributions from the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative, found that both floods and heat stress have already widened the income gap between poor and non-poor households by US$20 billion a year. Among other findings, it also showed that each day with extremely high temperatures reduces the total value of crops produced by women farmers by 3 percent relative to men.

Please join IFPRI, FAO and GCAN for this webinar where key results from the report and hear from policymakers, practitioners, and partners on how they are working to generate relevant evidence and make a difference on the ground.   

speakers

Aditi Mukherji, Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform of the CGIAR

Nicholas Sitko, Senior Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Claudia Ringler, Director, Natural Resources and Resilience (NRR), IFPRI

Carlo Azzarri, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Reema Nanavaty, Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA)

Mary Nyasimi, Executive Director / Faith Gikunda, Communications Director, Inclusive Climate Change Adaptation for a Sustainable Africa (ICCASA)

Aslihan Kes, Senior Gender Advisor, Resilience and Food Security, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Moderator: Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Scientist, IFPRI

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