The research on how climate change impacts the productivity of home-based workers (most of whom are women) is limited. This study focuses on female home-based workers in slums and informal settlements in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal and their experience of climate-related vulnerabilities and losses as livelihoods are disrupted by unseasonal rain, flooding, and increasing temperatures. Read more
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Impact of Climate Change on Urban Home-based Workers in South Asia
The research on how climate change impacts the productivity of home-based workers (most of whom are women) is limited. This study focuses on female home-based workers in slums and informal settlements in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal and their experience of climate-related vulnerabilities and losses as livelihoods are disrupted by unseasonal rain, flooding, and increasing temperatures. Read more