Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

En ejecución

Execution date:

2023

Total budget:

173.975,81€

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

121.783,07 €

According to the organization, this project arises from the need to address current scientific and political approaches to climate change adaptation from a gender and feminist perspective, since current approaches do not consider the differential impacts that climate change has on different social groups or how current discourses and public policies reproduce or reinforce existing discriminations.

In this way, the project reflects the gender mainstreaming approach of the current National Climate Change Plan 2021-2030, broadening the gender perspective to an intersectional perspective – one that takes into account variables such as race, age, origin, etc. – and applies it to the fields of agriculture, livestock, fisheries, food and forestry through the work of four case studies in these sectors.

The main objective is to generate scientific evidence on vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change from a gender and feminist perspective in agrifood and agroforestry systems at different spatial scales.

It has the following specific goals:

• Identify the key factors that determine climate vulnerability at the global level from a gender and feminist analysis.
• To identify and characterize perceptions of vulnerability, drivers of change and adaptive capacity in four case studies of the agrifood and agroforestry sector (livestock, fisheries, agriculture and forest management in four territorial areas of the Spanish state (Pyrenees, Barcelona, Madrid and Galicia) from a gender and feminist approach.
• To provide a definition and criteria for social and climate vulnerability from a gender and feminist perspective in the Spanish context.

• Search and compilation of existing scientific literature on vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change on a global scale in agrifood and agroforestry systems.
• Data collection in a matrix of the evidence found regarding the identified drivers of change, gender and feminist analysis, and diversity of adaptive capacities, vulnerability and resilience identified in the scientific literature of agri-food and agroforestry and agroforestry systems.
• Qualitative content analysis of scientific literature.
• Descriptive and statistical analysis of the evolution and trends in the scientific literature.
• Design and conduct of interviews with local stakeholders linked to the productive sector of agrifood and agroforestry systems to gather their perceptions of vulnerability to climate change and identify the main factors on which it depends.
• Conducting four focus groups with local stakeholders to analyze the interaction between various drivers of change and climate change. The four study areas of the project are the Pyrenees (Lleida), Barcelona, Madrid and Galicia (Pontevedra).
• Qualitative analysis of interviews and focus groups.
• Conducting four workshops to return results to local stakeholders linked to the productive sector of the agri-food and agroforestry systems in the four case studies.
• Holding of two workshops with representatives of the scientific, political and civil society spheres, in order to return the results, contextualize the Spanish casuistry and establish gaps in knowledge and action.
• Establishment of social vulnerability criteria, as well as barriers to adaptive capacity in consensus with the different social actors involved.
• Dissemination and communication of the project at the scientific level, at the level of decision-makers and the agri-food sector, as well as to society in general.