Patricia Glazebrook
Professor and Director of the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs

PACCAR Environmental Technology Building, Room 202

Women farmers in the global South have been adapting to a changing climate for some time. This paper examines the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security in Africa, and presents a case-study detailing adaptation strategies of women farmers in the Upper Eastern Region of Ghana. Conclusions assess the consequences of adaptation on nutrition, health, and childhood development. Recommendations are made to promote distributive, intergenerational, climate, gender, and food justice in international climate policy. Preliminary assessment of the December 2015 Paris agreement reached at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP) is made against these recommendations, with particular attention to the Gender Decision taken at COP 19 in Doha, Qatar in 2012.