High-Level Panel on Women and Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Organizer: UN Women
Date: Tue / Dec. 8 - 12:30
Time: 12:30
Area: Blue Zone
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