Weather extremes are the main driver of hunger in 18 countries where 72 million people face acute climate change impacts. Yet extreme weather is not only accelerating the hunger crisis, it is also laying bare and worsening gender and other inequalities.
A new CARE study, Breaking the Barriers, examined the lethal interconnections between climate change, inequality, gender and hunger to better understand and assess impacts and global/local responses.
The report combines insights from women’s own voices with new analyses of global data sources from FAO and the World Risk Poll. It builds on years of CARE’s focus on the gender food gap and the intersections between climate, hunger, and equality.
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