Integrating gender and nutrition into climate policy: Insights from the GCAN Initiative in Nigeria

Climate change impacts-including increasing temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and intensifying extreme weather events-have hit Nigeria hard, reducing agricultural productivity, driving up food prices, and limiting access to nutritious food. Climate-related damage to roads, irrigation, education, and health care infrastructure has also undermined food production and access to essential services. Women and other disadvantaged social groups bear a disproportionate burden of these negative impacts, due to systemic inequalities in access to resources, decision-making, and economic opportunities. These problems have intensified the country's longstanding malnutrition crisis. Thirty-four percent of children under five are stunted and 70% of the population suffers from moderate or severe food insecurity.