Climate Change and the Triple Burden : How Environmental Shocks Threaten Food Security and Deepen Vulnerabilities for Women and Children.

Climate change is a persistent problem of disproportionate effects, which harms women and children most. This essay explores the ways in which climatic shocks such as drought, floods, and erratic rainfall raise the magnitude of food insecurity, as well as gendered risk. Representative evidence from Ghana and in the Sub-Saharan African region, UN and FAO statistics, give rise to a "triple burden": hunger, displacement, and gendered risk. Women are farm producers who, although they constitute a majority of workers, have poor access to land, finance, and science, which constrains their productivity when there are climatic shocks. Children, however, suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition, interrupted schooling, and high susceptibility to infectious diseases. Refugee conditions aggravate all these risks, where a lack of infrastructure and non-gender-sensitive policy put women and girls at risk of violence.The report recognises that present adaptation responses continue to be technocratic and non-gender-sensitive. It recommends exemplary investment in constructing food system resilience, people-focused and gender-sensitive governance, and gender-responsive refugee management towards the safeguarding of the most vulnerable people in a climate-uncertain world.