Hello Can You Hear me? On Climate Change: Inequalities And Gender Vulnerability In Benin

This paper focuses on gender mainstreaming in modeling the impacts of climate change by development sector. Inspired by the methodologies of the Guillaumont economic vulnerability index (2008, 2009) and the UNDP poverty vulnerability ratio (2011), a synthetic index called the ‘Index of Inequality of Gender Vulnerability to Climate Change (IIGVcc)’, which is a modeling by development sector, of vulnerability inequalities to climate change between men and women, is proposed. From the data of the second edition of the integrated modular survey on the living conditions of households in Benin (EMICOV, 2011), this paper makes a concrete application of the IIGVcc for the Beninese agricultural sector. It shows that in the agricultural sector in Benin, women are about 1.1 times more vulnerable to climate change than men. The "access to land" parameter contributes to 50% of the inequalities of vulnerability, while the "instruction" parameter accounts for 37%.JEL Classification : C43, D13, O12, O13, Q12, Q18.