With women-led organizations receiving just 1-3% of global financing for climate adaptation, UN Women is calling for women and specifically African women to get a much larger share — as well as a bigger voice in discussions — at the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 27, which kicks off Sunday.
The success of the U.N.’s own joint program shows what can happen when money is invested in helping women farmers face climate change. The decade-old Accelerating Progress Towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women initiative, a food security program managed by four U.N. agencies, has seen up to 80% increases in agricultural productivity in the countries where it operates, according to Jemimah Njuki, chief of the economic empowerment section at UN Women. Further, 77% of the producer organizations the U.N. agencies work with are women-led, she said.ess of the U.N.’s own joint program shows what can happen when money is invested in helping women farmers face climate change. The decade-old Accelerating Progress Towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women initiative, a food security program managed by four U.N. agencies, has seen up to 80% increases in agricultural productivity in the countries where it operates, according to Jemimah Njuki, chief of the economic empowerment section at UN Women. Read more: Thhttps://www.devex.com/news/un-women-wants-to-give-african-women-farmers-a-voice-at-cop-27-104344
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