Presentation by Rachel Friedman at the Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change event on 19 March 2015 in Paris. More about the event: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/closing-gender-gap

1. Weathering Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation
Strategies Among Women in Ghanaian Cocoa
Rachel Friedman
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
19 March 2015

2. Weathering Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation
Strategies Among Women in Ghanaian Cocoa

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Own Land Husband's Land
Cocoa Food Crops
Palm NTFPs
Processed Products Trading
Services Business

4. Information Resources
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Observation Formal Education Media Extension Agent Farmer Exchanges Husband Parents or Elders
Own Land Husband's Land Inherited on Death

5. Social Resources

6. Implications
• Differentiated strategies
needed to accommodate
diversity of women in
community
• Improved information
and lending channels
• Development of
community women's
support groups