In many south Asian countries including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, women farmers are playing an important role in agriculture. With effects of climatic change more visible and severe than ever, women are evolving their own mechanisms to fight the after effects to mitigate the risk and uncertainty. What are your views on challenges faced by the women and strategies adopted by them to minimize the risk and uncertainty in agricultural production. Any links to studies on this topic are welcome.
Dear K.M. Singh,
This is a question of good education opportunities. Where the daughters of farmers can get good agricultural education, they can use environmentally friendly methods if they can afford them. Equal rights and democracy help to imprease the number of well trained woman farmers.
Women are far more connected to preserving their natural resources than are men, for a variety of reasons. These range from economic (for instance in hill villages most men outmigrate for jobs while women farm), to biological (women's innate ability to nurture leads to their impassioned protection, such as Chipko). In the event of greater rainfall uncertainty as well as extreme rainfall events/droughts, forested watersheds are able to buffer watersheds by disallowing extreme runoff+soil erosion as well as prolonging dry season streamflow. Women's groups engaged in forest protection can play a critical role to locally ensure the existence of forests and their ecosystem services to buffer ill-effects of climate change. There are many other examples in lowland agriculture as well as rural economies where women's cooperative groups strengthen their financial resilience based upon sustainable natural resource based livelihoods.
Get themselves educated/well informed about CC and pass on first to their own family and then other womenfolk.
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