High-Level Panel on Women and Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Agriculture remains one of the most important areas of women’s work globally with more than a third of employed women in the agricultural sector. Yet women farmers face a number of key structural barriers that limit their access to land, information, finance, time-saving infrastructure, technologies and services, as well as markets.

In the absence of concerted efforts to address the gender gap in agriculture in the context of a changing climate, women farmers are at risk of being trapped in a downward spiral. Improving the climate-resilience of women farmers requires an integrated approach that simultaneously addresses land tenure security as well as access to other productive assets within the context of a changing climate.

– See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/12/media-advisory-un-women-at-cop#sthash.Xe5BjXxL.dpuf