The Unjust Climate: Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on Rural Poor, Women and Youth

Rome (Italy): FAO, 2024.

English

120 p.

978-92-5-138590-6

We cannot eliminate poverty and end hunger without addressing the impacts of climate change on the livelihoods of marginalized rural people and communities. This report provides, for the first time, concrete evidence from 24 countries on the magnitude of the challenge posed by the climate crisis for rural people in socially and economically vulnerable positions due to their wealth status, gender, and age. It demonstrates clearly that extreme weather events and long-run climate change are disproportionately affecting the incomes of rural people living in poverty, women, and older populations. As a result, climate change is widening even further existing income gaps in rural areas, pushing vulnerable people towards maladaptive coping strategies and ultimately making it harder for these groups to escape cycles of poverty and hunger.

Electronic Ed.

ELR 2184

eng

MON-128418