Integrating gender and nutrition into climate policy: Insights from the GCAN Initiative in Nigeria

Climate change impacts—including increasing temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and intensifying extreme weather events—have hit Nigeria hard, reducing agricultural productivity, driving up food prices, and limiting access to nutritious food. Climate-related damage to roads, irrigation, education, and health care infrastructure has also undermined food production and access to essential services. Women and other disadvantaged social groups bear a disproportionate burden of these negative impacts, due to systemic inequalities in access to resources, decision-making, and economic opportunities. These problems have intensified the country’s longstanding malnutrition crisis. Thirty-four percent of children under five are stunted and 70% of the population suffers from moderate or severe food insecurity.