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Enhancing women’s leadership to address the challenges of climate change on nutrition security and health

Empowering women is a cornerstone of fostering adaptation and addressing the impacts of climate change on nutrition security and health. Through drawing on women’s knowledge and experiences based on their unique social, economic and resource management roles, climate change adaptation planners can significantly reduce communities’ vulnerability to climate change.

Enhancing women’s leadership to address the challenges of climate change on nutrition security and health

Author:
UNSCN, WFP, ACF and Center for Public Health and Climate Change
Year:
2011

Nourishing the Post COVID-19 World: A special session of the UNIATF’s COVID-19 Meetings On November 13th the UNIATF COVID-19 Meeting had a special session on nutrition titled ‘Nourishing the Post COVID-19 World’. Facilitated by UNSCN the session brought together…
2019 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 25) 2-13 December 2019Madrid, Spain The United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) is the international response to climate change. It is a treaty that establishes the basic obligations of the 196…
50th Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies 17-27 June 2019World Conference Center BonnBonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany We will update this page as more information becomes available.…
What is the Cost of a Healthy Diet? New Price Indexes Reveal Changes in Affordability of Nutritious Foods - IFPRI Policy Seminar 29 May, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT Interventions and innovation can lower the price of individual foods, but healthy eating depends on access to a mix of foods from diverse…
Seventy-second World Health Assembly 20–28 May 2019Geneva, Switzerland The Seventy-second World Health Assembly (WHA72) will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 20-28 May 2019. The WHA, the…