The GCAN team wrote a chapter of the 2017 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) titled "Gender-Sensitive, Climate-Smart Agriculture for Improved Nutrition in Africa South of the Sahara". This presents the GCAN framework which demonstrates the linkages among climate, gender, and nutrition at multiple scales and over different time horizons. The chapter provides examples of these linkages […] Source: Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN)
Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh
As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human subsistence […] Source: Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN)
Climate Change and Nutrition Linkages – Discussion Paper, Policy Note, Slide Deck
The intersection of climate change, food security, and nutrition is critical given growing adverse climate change impacts that threaten food security and nutrition outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable in the global South. The GCAN team put together a discussion paper which uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and […]
