Achieving the goals of Feed-the-Future and the Global Food Security Strategy requires careful consideration of the impact of relevant climate science on agricultural production, while at the same time considering other cross-cutting issues that influence agricultural growth, poverty alleviation and resilience, especially gender and nutrition. To address these challenges, IFPRI’s Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) works with USAID headquarters, field missions and partners to enhance understanding between climate, gender and nutrition toward enhanced resilience, women’s empowerment, and nutrition outcomes.

GCAN fills evidence gaps through research on the linkages among climate-smart agriculture (CSA), gender, and nutrition and provides demand-driven advisory services and capacity strengthening to support the integration of gender, climate change and nutrition in policy development and programming. In recent years, GCAN has more broadly explored the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global food crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, using a resilience lens.

Since the project’s inception, GCAN has published numerous research outputs, including journal articles, working papers, briefs, blog posts, and datasets. The GCAN team has also supported USAID missions in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nigeria, and Zambia and provided advisory services to USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security and partner organizations, including by presenting research at various internal and external events, and providing input on strategy documents at critical stages.

For more information, please visit gcan.ifpri.info.