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Socio Economic Research and Analysis

FAO recognizes the importance of rigorous evidence to guide policy choices and investments to achieve the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The Socio-Economic Research and Analysis (SERA) Team of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP) supports Member States to identify policies and programmes to foster resilient and inclusive agri-food system transformations through the generation, coordination, and dissemination of rigorous evidence.

The hallmark of the SERA team's strategic research agenda is an explicit focus on identifying policy options to address the socio-economic barriers and constraints faced by rural populations living in poverty or subject to other forms of structural vulnerability.

The team draws on a variety of methodological approaches and data sets, and leverages a range of strategic partnerships, to inform global and national policy debates on the importance of prioritizing inclusive approaches to rural development in the context of an increasingly uncertain world.

Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP)

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The unjust climate

This report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty. It analyses socioeconomic data collected from 109 341 rural households (representing over 950 million rural people) in these 24 countries. These data are combined in both space and time with 70 years of georeferenced data on daily precipitation and temperatures. The data enable us to disentangle how different types of climate stressors affect people’s on-farm, off-farm and total incomes, labour allocations and adaptive actions, depending on their wealth, gender and age characteristics.

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The unjust climate

Mar 6, 2024, 09:21 AM
This report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty. The data enable us to disentangle how different types of climate stressors affect people’s on-farm, off-farm and total incomes, labour allocations and adaptive actions, depending on their wealth, gender and age characteristics.
Title : The unjust climate
Link to External Url : https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cc9680en
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*Publication Date : Mar 5, 2024, 12:00 PM
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