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Establish
aquaculture,
including
mariculture, to
compensate
for losses
in food
production
caused by
extreme
climate events
May reinforce the traditional division
of labour, and inequality in access
to productive resources and their
benefits.
May conceal the active participation
of women in productive processes, for
example, fishing. 1
Promote equitable integration of women
and men in productive and reproductive
activities.
3 Productive activities
Measures Possible negative impacts Suggestions
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Change crop
irrigation;
times, type and
uses
May remove water sources for
domestic use or place them further
away.
May lengthen or intensify the
productive and reproductive working
day.
Consider women as water users, both
domestically and for production such as
growing crops and raising animals.
Analyze the use women can make of
irrigated land to provide subsistence foods.
Promote technologies appropriate to the
needs of women and give them the proper
training.
Encourage equity in access to irrigated land
ownership.
Substitute
agriculture
May not take account of women’s
participation in agricultural activities,
excluding them from new processes.
Again may raise obstacles to using,
having access to, managing and
controlling resources (land, credit and
training).
Build new capacities for women and create
non-traditional job sources.
1
Women are often responsible for making nets, collecting bait, fishing in estuaries, on coasts and in intertidal zones, processing
and selling, and work on fish farms and in processing plants. From the coast they also support their companions with tasks
related to communications, accounts and quality control, or in preparing food for fishing trips.
Table 1. Gender sensitive-adaptation measures / Module 4