Climate Change, Adaptation and Gender Policy, Practice and Methodological Underpinnings

This book offers a wide, in-depth study of the gender-climate change-agriculture nexus. The crux of understanding these connections comprises gender equality and tools to measure gender discrimination, the evolution of the concept of gender inclusiveness and its concerns; and the need to address the same by formulating gender-inclusive policymaking. Despite the fact that more than 50 years have elapsed since gender concerns were included in explorations of this nexus, there is still ambiguity around the foundations, connections, and approaches for planning gender-inclusive climate policies. This book aims to clear that ambiguity by: · Being the first to explore exclusively this issue in detail.· Revealing how and why consideration of gender is so important for understanding how climate change impacts rural communities and agricultural systems globally.· Exploring every dimension of climate change (including belief systems and perceptions, knowledge, experience, coping strategies, adaptation, and mitigation strategies) and linking it to gender. It includes new theoretical and methodological approaches that go far beyond the household as the unit of analysis (using various approaches, including intersectional analysis). The book not only throws light on major themes of research, but also covers different methodologies ranging from review methods to mathematical models, conceptual frameworks and empirical analysis. It will be of wide interest to students, scholars, and researchers in gender studies, agriculture, climate change and rural development research, and also to practitioners, extension workers, and planners designing new climate-resilient practices.

Dr. Mamta Mehar (PhD in Economics) has expertise in clientele-responsive agriculture and aquaculture innovative technologies, seed systems, digital agriculture, gender and climate change themes, inter-disciplinary approaches, and innovative methods and tools to analyze and interpret data. Over the past 10 years, she has worked with different CGIAR (Consultative Group of International Agriculture Research) organisations and hence different food crops and programs. In 2017, she was awarded a Borlaug fellowship by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has also undergone extensive sessions in Gender and Research Integrated Training (GRIT) organized by Pennsylvania State University (2017 and 2018), in the USA. She is a contributing author in the latest assessment report of the IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change).

Prof. Narayan Prasad has been professor of economics in School of Social Sciences of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India since 2006 where he is also Director of a Research Unit, and Director of the Academic Coordination Division. He has designed and developed 'Research Methodology courses' for Mphil and PhD students. He has published five books and presented and published research Papers at several International and national forums. He is a frequent guest lecturer at universities internationally.