Gender, Agrobiodiversity, and Climate Change: A Study of Adaptation Practices in the Nepal Himalayas

Basundhara Bhattarai, Ruth Beilin and Rebecca Ford

World Development, 2015, vol. 70, issue C, 122-132

Abstract: Gender is seminal to agrobiodiversity management, and inequities are likely to be exacerbated under a changing climate. Using in-depth interviews with farmers and officials from government and non-government organizations in Nepal, we explore how gender relations are influenced by wider socio-economic changes, and how alterations in gender relations shape responses to climate change. Combining feminist political ecology and critical social-ecological systems thinking, we analyze how gender and adaptation interact as households abandon certain crops, adopt high-yielding varieties and shift to cash crops. We argue that the prevailing development paradigm reinforces inequitable gender structures in agrobiodiversity management, undermining adaptation to the changing climate.

Keywords: gender; agrobiodiversity management; climate change; adaptation; Nepal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.01.003

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