This policy note summarizes research exploring the challenges and opportunities associated with building human, organizational, and institutional capacity to respond effectively to the adverse impacts of climate change as they relate to agricultur

This policy note summarizes research on the effect of social network characteristics and gender on the diffusion of information about an agricultural technology.

This policy note summarizes the findings of two literature reviews on the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change and the scope for community-based adaptation.

Climate change poses great challenges for poor rural people in developing countries, most of whom rely on natural resources for their livelihoods and have limited capacity to adapt to climate change.

This policy note summarizes research into the gender-differentiated impacts of climatic changes on farmers’ production possibilities using a representative sample of farmers in rainfed and irrigated areas of the Segou region of Mali during the 200

An increasing body of research is focusing on the question of how poor agricultural households will both perceive and be affected by climate change. In view of its predicted effects, the need to identify effective adaptation strategies is urgent.

Potential for Group-Based Approaches

In this paper, the relationship of women’s individual and joint property ownership and the level of women’s input into household decisionmaking is explored with data from India, Mali, Malawi, and Tanzania.