Abstract
Climate change is negatively impacting all aspects of agricultural production, including the components of food security, such as food prices, rural agricultural production, and household incomes. Through literature review on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), this research attempts to fill the gap in this work pertaining to the role of women in local approaches to smallholder agriculture and the communal impacts of agricultural sustainability practices in Tajikistan. Utilizing community-based participatory research I study how rural women connect and encourage each other through family-systems and community networking in support of their smallholder agricultural initiatives. This study examines the challenges faced by these farmers in implementing climate-smart smallholder agriculture and, once implemented, how this agricultural practice is unfolding. The research also considers how factors such as demographic profile, financial position, and farming history impact the adoption of CSA amongst this group of smallholder farmers. This research supports work on addressing gender-specific differences and challenges in the adoption of CSA and lay the foundation for gender sensitive policies to support female owned farms within the backdrop of small farm vulnerabilities to the impacts of climate change.
Presenters
Zora De RhamStudent, Agricultural Sciences, Cornell University, New York, United States Jacqueline Jamsheed
Accounting Faculty, Business, Elms College, United States
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Women, Smallholder Agriculture, Climate Smart Agriculture, Tajikistan, Climate Change
