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A Long Way toward Climate Smart Agriculture: The Importance of Addressing Gender Inequity in the Agricultural Sector of Guatemala

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Warner College of Natural Resources, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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College of Liberal Arts, Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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Land 2022, 11(8), 1268; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081268
Submission received: 29 May 2022 / Revised: 4 August 2022 / Accepted: 4 August 2022 / Published: 7 August 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate-Smart Agriculture and Rural Sustainability)

Abstract

In the context of climate change’s detrimental effects on agricultural production and food security, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) strategies constitute a promising approach to reduce vulnerability and boost adaptation capacity and resilience within farmers. However, CSA strategies should address gender dynamics to reach their full potential. This study analyzed the barriers and opportunities for the implementation of gender-sensitive CSA strategies in rural Guatemala, a low-latitude country with a high gender gap index, through the perceptions of agricultural extensionists. For this purpose, we conducted an online survey among Guatemalan agricultural extensionists who attended a series of Climate Services for Agriculture workshops between May and July 2021 and analyzed the results using a qualitative approach. Results suggest that women in rural Guatemala are frequently excluded from climate information access, agricultural training, and decision-making spaces in which agricultural resource management strategies are defined. We argue that this exclusion represents a barrier to the improvement in adaptation capacity and resilience and that gender inequity should be addressed to implement successful gender-sensitive CSA approaches. Generating gender-sensitive indicators and training extensionists against gender bias could be a starting point, but further research is necessary to understand gender dynamics in rural Guatemala.
Keywords: climate change; Central America; women farmers; food security climate change; Central America; women farmers; food security

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Mosso, C.; Pons, D.; Beza-Beza, C. A Long Way toward Climate Smart Agriculture: The Importance of Addressing Gender Inequity in the Agricultural Sector of Guatemala. Land 2022, 11, 1268. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081268

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Mosso C, Pons D, Beza-Beza C. A Long Way toward Climate Smart Agriculture: The Importance of Addressing Gender Inequity in the Agricultural Sector of Guatemala. Land. 2022; 11(8):1268. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081268

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Mosso, Clara, Diego Pons, and Cristian Beza-Beza. 2022. "A Long Way toward Climate Smart Agriculture: The Importance of Addressing Gender Inequity in the Agricultural Sector of Guatemala" Land 11, no. 8: 1268. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081268

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Mosso, C., Pons, D., & Beza-Beza, C. (2022). A Long Way toward Climate Smart Agriculture: The Importance of Addressing Gender Inequity in the Agricultural Sector of Guatemala. Land, 11(8), 1268. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081268

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