Climate change impacts on women’s migration and poverty in Burkina Faso

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Résumé

Burkina Faso faces significant challenges in gender inequalities, especially in terms of employment and economic opportunities. Our study contributes to the understanding of the gender distributional effects of climate change shock using a macro-micro economic model. The climate change shock is introduced stochastically to accommodate the uncertainties related to the evolution of the climate and its effects on agricultural yields. Our results show that on average, climate change is slightly unfavourable to women’s economic activities compared to men’s economic activities. Climate change shocks drive down employment, and slightly more women’s employment. Furthermore, the simulation shows negative impacts on poverty, with extreme poverty increasing more among rural households and female-headed households under the climate change shock. However, the high level of uncertainty surrounding the impact of climate change on agricultural yields makes the findings insignificant under a 5% margin of error.

Mots-clés

Climate change, Agriculture, Gender, Employment, Economywide modelling, Burkina Faso