Introduction Good Practices for Gender Gender inequality significantly undermines progress towards building more inclusive, resilient, & sustainable agrifood systems in the context of a changing climate. Overcoming gender inequalities is key in climate-resilient agriculture Responsive Climate Smart via the empowerment of women & girls in all parts of value chains across agrifood systems. One approach towards climate-resilient agriculture is climate-smart agriculture (CSA), which focuses on three pillars: sustainably Agriculture increasing agricultural productivity & incomes, adapting & building resilience to climate change, & reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Katie Tavenner1, Diksha Arora2, Samuel Tetteh Partey3 , • Purposive strategies towards reducing vulnerability & enhancing Nancy Omolo4 , Nitya Rao & Natasha Grist5 , Nguyen Sy women’s empowerment are needed to address existing & pervasive gender & intersecting social inequalities in agrifood Linh6 systems to achieve CSA objectives. 1. Lead author • This compilation categorizes & provides examples of good 2. Latin America & the Caribbean & Southern African Development Community practices towards gender responsive CSA across four action areas 3. Western Africa & six regions. 4. Eastern Africa 5. Southern Asia Approach 6. South-eastern Asia THREE PILLARS OF CSA – THE TRIPLE WIN ACTION AREAS FOR GENDER RESPONSIVE CSA METHODOLOGY CSA Adoption & Benefits The compilation of good practices for gender responsive CSA CSA Services & Information were gathered from a desk review, analysis of programmatic Field-based evidence on Closing the gender gap with what works for gender evidence, & case studies contributed by development information, institutions & equality & women’s services practitioners & experts in the different gender action areas. empowerment 1. Desk review – 172 journal articles & 116 grey literature papers CSA Finance CSA Policy 2. Key informant interviews – 17 gender & CSA experts Building mechanisms to 3. Good practice ‘snapshots’ – 35 countries across 6 regions Promoting women’s engender finance support leadership & decision-making in policymaking at all levels Gender responsive CSA across regions Gender responsive CSA refers to approaches that consider & address women’s & men’s specific priorities & their different access to technologies, resources, education, information, & advisory & financial services that can help build their climate resilience. Similarities of strategies for gender responsive approaches to CSA across regions indicate high potential for scaling up good practices, although they would still need to be tailored to the local context. Western Africa Eastern Africa Southern Engendering climate finance in CSA requires The process of integrating gender into CSA Asia meeting women’s practical & strategic needs. policies works well when ministries collaborate The sustainability of finance options for women & work together in an aligned way instead of Tailored climate finance products can be – including grants, credits or soft loans (loans in sector-based silos. Including rural women as co-designed with intermediaries, such as local with no interest or a below-market rate of priority stakeholders to engage in joint businesses & women’s groups to meet their interest) – are contingent on meeting both performance reviews can help evaluate needs & capacities. practical needs (i.e., water, electricity) & progress & alignment with national gender Tailored climate finance also considers the role strategic needs (i.e., leadership) to ensure goals. of local gender norms in mediating women’s long-term climate-adaptive capacities & participation in CSA activities & could prioritize resilience. value chains & livestock species that are accessible to rural women. Latin America & the Caribbean Co-management agreements between South-eastern governments & indigenous/rural women’s associations can strengthen digital capacity to Asia help create communication networks that bridge the gender gap in climate services. Challenging harmful gender norms around the Building capacity to use CSA services such as use & ownership of agricultural technologies & mobile phones & radios can increase women’s assets is required for the uptake of CSA access to relevant agricultural information to practices that can reduce gender inequalities in manage climate risk more effectively. Southern Africa labour & income. CSA practices ranging from small livestock Dev. Community development, alternative wetting & drying, to training on market development have boosted CSA technologies & practices can contribute to incomes, reduced labour burdens, & increased safer, healthier work environments for women resilience for women & vulnerable farmers. & girls by curtailing their time spent in search of fuelwood & other resources. Mitigation technologies (e.g., low-emission cook stoves & briquettes) & resilience innovations (e.g., drought-resilient crop varietals & mechanized processors) can reduce women’s time spent in search of fuelwood & their agricultural labour burden. What good practices Good practices across action areas Suggestions for replicating & scaling good for gender responsive Valuation of Collectives as CSA could be Transformative women’s platforms for identified? approaches practices knowledge CSA action Institutionalize processes for gender responsive design & implementation of CSA interventions, policies & programmes - Strengthen the capacity & knowledge of women & youth about CSA practices; & invest in their leadership & negotiation skills, drawing on the strengths of their traditional environmental Share good practices, lessons learned, & missed opportunities to drive innovation & avoid replicating ‘bad practices’ knowledge & collective organizations; Engage with men & masculinities by using an approach that focuses on families – where women, men, & youth are jointly engaged/trained in CSA practices & Engage in continuous monitoring & tracking of gender responsive indicators to ensure gender issues technologies – can help lessen the risk of resistance to interventions are not being diluted or ignored - Encourage policymakers to take ownership of & become accountable for developing & Adopt longer term strategies for gender responsive CSA that build in scaling approaches for implementing gender-transformative strategies & action plans; Build capacity to ensure the governmental & non-governmental support meaningful participation of women, Indigenous Peoples, forest dwellers & local communities in Translate knowledge generated from gender & CSA research into actionable sets of guidelines for international & national policymaking; Review, regularly & robustly, climate & agricultural policies policymakers to ensure that gender & intersectional issues are included, prioritized & funded. - Address the digital gender divide in interventions, policies & programmes that support CSA References & acknowledgements climate services; Leverage existing networks of women’s groups, village savings & loan groups & farmers’ unions to share experiences & access information to improve intrahousehold 1. 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Support locally led climate finance & action by incorporating analysis of gender & intersectional 4. IUCN. 2021. Gender & national climate planning: gender integration in the revised Nationally Determined issues to identify relevant stakeholders, gender gaps & the diverse needs of women & men Contributions. Gl&, Switzerl&: IUCN. belonging to different groups; Bundle CSA finance with gender-responsive technologies, technical 5. USAID. 2022. Technical Brief: Gender Equality & Climate Financing. U.S. Agency for International Development. support, & training on CSA practices; Fund gender-responsive financial products. Washington, DC. Acknowledgements: FAO, CGIAR GENDER Platform, Sophia Huyer, Nicoline de Haan, Nitya Chanana, Tacko Ndiaye, Ilaria Sisto, Rachel Allen, Candida Villa-Lobos, Molephi Mphsea, Reuben Sessa, Inkar Kadyrzhanova, Matteo Zonella Bolco & Sarah Cole. 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