Jan 16, 2024 | Event, News Article
We are inviting you to our Online Symposium “It’s Bean Too Hot: The Reality of Coffee Farming in the Era of Climate Change” on February 21-22, 2024. This symposium will be a crucial dialogue bringing together diverse stakeholders – from coffee farmers and...
Jun 7, 2023 | Event, News Article
This was our Awareness Month May “Climate Needs Equality – Climate Change Cannot Be Solved Without Women”. It was all about gender equality – and also inequality as the unfortunate status quo – and its connection to climate change, specifically in coffee-growing...
May 24, 2023 | News Article
Women at the Forefront of Climate Impacts Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing and urgent issues of our time, especially impacting farming communities and smallholder families. Rising temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns are far-reaching,...
May 22, 2023 | Event, News Article
Climate change and gender equality are inextricably linked. On the one hand, traditional gender roles and patriarchal systems unbalance the impact of climate change on men and women. They make women more vulnerable to it: Women and girls are those who carry a heavier...
May 17, 2023 | News Article, Tanzania, Uganda
In rural farming communities, women are often in charge of ensuring their families’ supply of food, water, and energy sources such as firewood. In many households, women also do up to 90 % of the agricultural labor to produce crops for food and income. As a result,...
May 10, 2023 | News Article, Tanzania, Uganda
The impacts of climate change put a strain on smallholder families in many ways. Extreme temperatures, erratic and unpredictable rains, droughts, and floods affect smallholders’ production, livelihoods, and living conditions. Women, in particular, are more affected...
