The contraints to women participating in smallholder carbon and climate-smart activities are addressed in a new policy brief published by the World Agroforestry Centre.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Climate Change Policy and Practice website outlines how the brief is based on research conducted in Western Kenya and promotes joint decision making by women and men in relation to climate change.

Practitioners should not work with women separately from men and they should engage in iterative learning processes to improve gender equity and outcomes from projects, says the brief. It recommends focusing on climate-smart smallholder agriculture rather than carbon finance to achieve more equitable benefit distribution for women.

The brief was developed in partnership with CARE and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

Read the article: ICRAF Policy Brief Addresses Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture

Download the policy brief: Addressing Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture