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Women, Changing Climates, and Changing Agricultural Yields (Paperback)
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This book lends valuable insight into the gendered dimensions of
the impact of climate change on subsistence farming in Cameroon, so
seriously unattended. Building on the voices and experiences of
often marginalized local peoples in the Cameroon grassland, the
book delivers an informative exploration of the ways in which
women's crucial engagement with subsistence agriculture is
currently being undermined by incidences of climate change.
Challenges such as erratic seasonal patterns;shifting planting
seasons;increase in weed production;poorer crop yields;loss of
income and resulting emotional and financial stresses mean that
women-the indispensible providers of food, home care and
agricultural production, are forced to stretch further in order to
accommodate extra burdens related to adaptation and
mitigation.However, these realities are not confined to the rural
women of Cameroon.They echo the constant struggle of rural women
across Africa and the larger south, as they attempt to maintain a
precariously balanced equilibrium on a scale that seems permanently
tipped against them. Gender sensitive policies are thus urgently
needed to address these plethoric and often confounding challe
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