Climate Change, Gender, and Digital Technology Intersection
摘要
Climate change is gender-biased. It intersects with entrenched inequalities that disproportionately burden women in agrifood systems. Women comprise a large proportion of the agricultural workforce but are continually excluded from the agricultural economy because their access to land, credit, and technology and their decision-making ability are severely restricted. The authors advocate for the transformation of both adaptation and mitigation policies to focus on the knowledge, work, and agency of women in agriculture; innovations such as labor-saving technologies, conservation agriculture, and digital technologies can only become truly transformative when they are integrated into local realities through co-design with women farmers. This chapter promotes the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems, multi-stakeholder governance, and feminist policy initiatives to eliminate structural obstacles. Innovations such as labor-saving tools, conservation agriculture, and digital technologies must be embedded in local realities and co-designed with women farmers to be truly transformative in the face of climate stress.