Vulnerability of Ghanaian women cocoa farmers to climate change: a typology
Vulnerability of Ghanaian women cocoa farmers to climate change: a typology
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DOI：
10.1080/17565529.2018.1442806
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发表时间：
2019-05
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
R. Friedman;M. Hirons;E. Boyd
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作者：
R. Friedman;M. Hirons;E. Boyd
气候变化日益被认为是实现可持续发展目标的障碍，已经开始影响包括非洲大陆在内的世界各地人民的生活和生计。脆弱性是在气候变化背景下经常使用的一个概念，目的是确定风险并制定政策和适应措施，以应对当前和预计的影响。然而，它处于更广泛的社会背景下，受土地保有权和获取、生计多样化和赋权等因素的推动，这些因素特别指出了妇女等历史上被边缘化的群体。本文将脆弱性框架应用于加纳中部地区可可种植的案例研究，不仅描述了导致气候变化脆弱性的各种因素，而且还描述了基于妇女与可可生产本身的关系而出现的关于脆弱性的不同说法。这份文件表明，女性农民的同质化和注重气候的政策干预的技术重点可能会进一步边缘化最脆弱的群体，并加剧现有的不平等。这对气候变化政策的设计和执行以及对脆弱性有影响的更广泛的社会发展议程都有影响。
Climate change, increasingly recognized as a hurdle to achieving sustainable development goals, has already begun impacting the lives and livelihoods of people around the world, including on the African continent. Vulnerability is a concept often employed in the context of climate change to identify risks and develop policy and adaptation measures that address current and projected impacts. However, it is situated in a broader social context, driven by factors such as land tenure and access, livelihood diversification, and empowerment, which single out historically marginalized groups like women. This paper applies a vulnerability framework to a case study of cocoa farming in the Central Region of Ghana, depicting not only the variety of factors contributing to climate change vulnerability but also different narratives on vulnerability that emerge based on a woman’s relation to cocoa production itself. The paper conveys how homogeneous representations of women farmers and the technical focus of climate-orientated policy interventions may threaten to further marginalize the most vulnerable and exacerbate existing inequalities. This has implications for both climate change policy design and implementation, as well as the broader social development agenda that has bearing on vulnerability.