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- Convenors:
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Sarika Chaudhary
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Amaresh Dubey (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Wendy Olsen (University of Manchester)
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- Format:
- Paper panel
Short Abstract:
Perceptible weather anomalies across geographical regions are affecting livelihoods. Scattered empirical evidence show extreme whether has started impacting labour demand and supply. This panel will consider submissions on climate change induced effects on female labour participation in South Asia.
Long Abstract:
There is general consensus among the climate scientists that perceptible weather anomalies are occurring across geographical regions. Observable weather anomalies include extreme temperatures and wide fluctuations in rainfall, which adversely affect agricultural production and productivity, posing significant challenges to food security.
Extreme weather events contribute to the build-up of pests, diseases, and weeds, necessitating crop diversification to build resilience. This often leads to increased use of defensive inputs such as pesticides and weeding. More importantly, the higher costs of inputs and climate-resilient seeds have a differential impact on farms of varying sizes, especially in the Global South. Small farm households, constrained by limited credit and liquidity, are likely to use fewer pesticides and rely more heavily on unpaid family labour.
In addition, farm sizes are continuously shrinking, e.g. in India primarily because to Indian inheritance laws. The increased use of farm inputs, crop diversification and the resulting implications for farm sizes may significantly alter labour demand and supply in agriculture. Given that farm households in many developing countries face immense liquidity constraints in purchasing farm inputs such as pesticides, usages of labour for weeding may be directly triggered to respond to temperature induced pests and disease build-up.
The labour implications of extreme heat events are not fully understood. While some evidence on labour implications exists, it remains scattered and not specific to the agricultural sector.
This panel invites empirical submissions exploring the effects of climate change on the demand and supply of female labour in agriculture, particularly in South Asia.