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Understanding how climate change impacts nutrition

The role of climate change as a threat multiplier risks exacerbating inequalities and undoing decades of progress for women and girls, especially in the areas of food security, nutrition, and gender equality. When looking from a macro level, the gendered impact of climate change and the compounding impact it has on realizing the right to good nutrition can be seen through three distinct pathways:

The impact on food systems highlights an acute vulnerability to a vast number of climate threats that influence women and girls’ ability to obtain and consume nutritious foods. The impact on shifts in disease burden, points to shifting patterns in infectious and non-communicable diseases as climate change influences human relationships with the environment. Finally, as many environments around the world are rendered inhospitable, climate change induced migration forces many people to leave in search of somewhere else to survive and thrive.

Altogether, the impacts of climate change on these three pathways overlap and intersect with one another in complex ways to exert strong forces on marginalized populations and consistently undermine women and girls’ right to good nutrition. Read the linked report for more details.