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Adaptation to climate variability and change in Uganda: Are there gender differences across households?

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This paper hypothesizes that adaptation to climate change is influenced by the gender of the decision maker of the household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male-headed households are examined. A multinomial logit model is used to examine factors determining adaptation choices by gender. Findings reveal that gender of the household head matters in adaptation to climate-induced shocks. Specific differences were found regarding responses during drought, regarding crop pest attacks, and livestock epidemics. Agro-ecological climate zones in which households live play a key role in adaptation options, yet gender matters.

ISBN
978-92-9230-828-5
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2014/107

Classification
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Subject
adaptation
climate change
covariate shocks
gender
multinomial logit

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Guloba, Madina
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2014

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2014/828-5
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  • Guloba, Madina
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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