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FAO/ TACKLING THE GENDER GAP IS CRUCIAL TO FIGHT FOOD INSECURITY AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Climate change disproportionately impacts women farmers in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing billions of dollars of losses among female-headed farming households and widening the income gap among the rural poor, reveals a groundbreaking Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report.

Interview in English with Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Language English

Duration 2m45s

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Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 03/05/2024 12:00 AM

File size 365.14 MB

Unique ID UF15S40

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Shotlist STORY: FAO/ TACKLING THE GENDER GAP IS CRUCIAL TO FIGHT FOOD INSECURITY AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
TRT: 02’45’’
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT FAO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NAT
DATELINE: ROME, ITALY, 16 FEBRUARY 2024 / RECENT

DATELINE: JULY 2017, ARGHAKHANCHI DISTRICT, NEPAL

1. Med shot, women walking carrying fodder on their heads
2. Wide shot, female farmers next to their water buffaloes
3. Wide shot, water buffaloes walking on dry river bank

OCTOBER 2016, LUWERO DISTRICT, UGANDA

4. Wide shot, female farmers working in a nursery

7 DECEMBER 2022, SALAXLEY, SOMALIA

5. Aerial shot, dry land

JANUARY 2022, GURICADE, BELETWEYNE, SOMALIA

6. Wide shot, dry land

1 SEPTEMBER 2020 GAIBANDHA DISTRICT, BANGLADESH

7. Aerial shot, flooded fields and villages

15 SEPTEMBER 2023, ROME, ITALY

10. Wide shot, headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome

16 FEBRUARY 2024, ROME, ITALY

11. SOUNDBITE (English), Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “The problem with climate change is it's not stopping, it's accelerating. So if we had another one degree Celsius change in the climate, it means that over time women would lose 34 percent more of income than men in situations in middle- and low-income countries where there's already a lot of stress on these households to produce enough income to feed their families and to pursue their livelihoods.”

9 JULY 2018, BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

12. Wide shot, FAO technical expert training women to dry tomatoes
13. Med shot, FAO beneficiary salting tomatoes

MARCH 2020, IMATACA FOREST RESERVE, VENEZUELA

14. Pan down, female Indigenous Peoples working on their gardens
15. Med shot, female Indigenous Peoples working on her garden
16. Close up, female Indigenous Peoples
17. Med shot, female Indigenous Peoples cooking

1-5 OCTOBER 2023, KAPOETA SOUTH COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
18. Wide shot, female farmer receiving climate-resilient seeds
19. Close up, a package of climate-resilient seeds

16 FEBRUARY 2024, ROME, ITALY

20. SOUNDBITE (English), Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “Climate change is a major challenge for poor people and particularly for women. And it's a challenge for women because they can't easily adapt to climate change as men can, because they don't have as much access to resources, to assets, to services that would allow them to adapt to the challenges that a changing climate poses. For example, women don't often have as much ownership of land as men. Women may not have access to technology like drought-resistant seeds.”

23-27 OCTOBER 2022, LAHIRI MOHANPUR, BANGLADESH

21. Close up, farmer milking a cow
22. Wide shot, female farmer (center) attending training at the Digital Village Service Centre
23. Close up, Computer screen showing software that helps farmers in business planning
24. Wide shot, farmers attending a training in Digital Village Service Centre

31 JULY 2023, AWEIL, SOUTH SUDAN

25. Wide shot, farmers preparing the rice demonstration plot for the upcoming rain.
26. Med shot, a farmer prepareing the rice demonstration plot for the upcoming rain by building a dyke
27. Wide shot, community members watering the vegetable garden.

16 FEBRUARY 2024, ROME, ITALY

28. SOUNDBITE (English), Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “What's really important is to design investments and to increase the amount of money that's going towards projects which not only address these kind of asset and resource gaps, but also try to transform social norms or empower women so that they have more agency to make decisions for their family. Because we know that doing that can have really big benefits in terms of the household incomes, dietary diversity, food security and resilience.”

AUGUST 2020, AL-ODAIN, IBB GOVERNORATE, YEMEN.

29. Wide shot, a farmer and her daughter with hen
30. Med shot, hen feeding

6-9 OCTOBER 2020, PREAH VIHEAR PROVINCE, CAMBODIA

31. Drone shot, female farmer working in her field
32. Wide shot, farmer working with shovel

Script Climate change disproportionately impacts women farmers in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing billions of dollars of losses among female-headed farming households and widening the income gap among the rural poor, reveals a groundbreaking Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report.

“The Unjust Climate: Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youth” combined socioeconomic data from over 950 million rural people across 24 countries with over 70 years of climate data to quantify how extreme weather events are adversely impacting female-headed households' livelihoods to a greater degree than those male-headed.

On average, female-headed households lose 8 percent more of their income due to heat stress and 3 percent more due to floods compared to male-headed households. This translates to a per capita reduction of USD 83 due to heat stress and USD 35 due to floods, totalling USD 37 billion and USD 16 billion respectively across all low and middle-income countries, said Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the FAO, ahead of International Women’s Day (March 8).

Unless policies and finance address the gender gap at the same time as the climate crisis, women farmers will continue facing a larger burden than men, Phillips said.

SOUNDBITE (English), Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “The problem with climate change is it's not stopping, it's accelerating. So if we had another 1 degree Celsius change in the climate, it means that over time women would lose 34 percent more of income than men in situations in middle- and low-income countries where there's already a lot of stress on these households to produce enough income to feed their families and to pursue their livelihoods.”

The unprecedented FAO report established a strong link between gender inequality and the adaptative capacity of women to the climate crisis. It showed that entrenched and long-standing discriminatory gender norms and policies limiting women’s access to land, finance, and technology overly hinder female farmer’s ability to build climate resilience.

SOUNDBITE (English), Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “Climate change is a major challenge for poor people and particularly for women. And it's a challenge for women because they can't easily adapt to climate change as men can, because they don't have as much access to resources, to assets, to services that would allow them to adapt to the challenges that a changing climate poses. For example, women don't often have as much ownership of land as men. Women may not have access to technology like drought-resistant seeds.”

Women play a vital role in agrifood systems as farmers, retailers, wage workers, entrepreneurs, and beyond. Addressing gender gaps and fostering women’s empowerment is crucial to eradicating hunger and malnutrition. However, only a small share of current governments’ aid (6 percent) treats gender as a fundamental issue.

Phillips called to address this imbalance, combining “financing to address multiple challenges at the same time.”

SOUNDBITE (English), Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “What's really important is to design investments and to increase the amount of money that's going towards projects which not only address these kind of asset and resource gaps, but also try to transform social norms or empower women so that they have more agency to make decisions for their family. Because we know that doing that can have really big benefits in terms of the household incomes, dietary diversity, food security and resilience.”

In rural areas, women’s working conditions and economic opportunities are influenced by gender inequalities within the household, the community, the institutions, and the broader society.

On average, female employees in agriculture earn 18 percent less than men.

Closing gender gaps in farm productivity and wages within agrifood systems could boost the global Gross Domestic Product by 1 percent and decrease global food insecurity by at least 2 percent, leading to a reduction of 45 million food-insecure people, according to the study.