Polycrisis in agrifood systems: Climate-conflict interactions and labor dynamics for women and youth in 21 African countries

Vista sencilla de ítem
dc.creatorStojetz, Wolfgang
dc.creatorAzzarri, Carlo
dc.creatorMane, Erdgin
dc.creatorBrück, Tilman
dc.date2025-06
dc.date2026-02-04T15:36:31Z
dc.date2026-02-04T15:36:31Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:25:38Z
dc.descriptionThis paper provides evidence on the impacts of armed conflict and climate change on individual labor intensity. Based on pooled labor force survey, climate, and conflict event data from 21 African countries, we document that climate change and armed conflict can create a polycrisis: the negative impacts of extreme climate events on labor intensity in and outside of agriculture are more severe in conflict environments. This interaction effect, driven by heat waves and floods, is concentrated among young people, and it is the result of violent conflict presence before a climate event occurs, not of conflict events that occur at the same time as the climate event. In addition, our results suggest that conflict contributes to gender-specific shifts in labor allocation in response to climate events exacerbating women’s work burden. Our findings emphasize the importance of concerted, evidence-based policies to tackle climate-conflict polycrises, taking into account the specific vulnerabilities shaped by individuals’ gender and age.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/181160
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104045
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Security and Development Center
dc.publisherFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceStojetz, Wolfgang; Azzarri, Carlo; Mane, Erdgin; and Brück, Tilman. 2025. Polycrisis in agrifood systems: Climate-conflict interactions and labor dynamics for women and youth in 21 African countries. HiCN Working Paper 430. Berlin, Germany: International Security and Development Center; and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. https://hicn.org/working-paper/430/
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectagrifood systems
dc.subjectclimate
dc.subjectconflicts
dc.subjectlabour
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subjectemployment
dc.titlePolycrisis in agrifood systems: Climate-conflict interactions and labor dynamics for women and youth in 21 African countries
dc.typeWorking Paper

Archivos

Colecciones

Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias (IFPRI)