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African women entrepreneurs are a smart bet for climate change investment: research shows why

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par Kate Gannon, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Shaikh Eskander, Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

Women in Africa are often framed as especially vulnerable to climate change. Our earlier research suggested that women entrepreneurs often face a “triple differential vulnerability” to climate risk compared to men.

What we mean is that there are three possible reasons for their additional vulnerability. First, their livelihoods are often in climate sensitive sectors. Second, they face additional barriers to accessing resources for adaptation in the business environment – such as finance, new adaptation technologies and markets…

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