FAO economist presented the report “The unjust climate. Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women, and youth”.
Farm income sources of the rural poor in India were affected in different ways depending on the type of climate stress.
Poor households globally lose 5% of their total income in an average year due to heat stress and 4.4% due to floods compared with households that are relatively better off.
Floods, globally, widen the income gap between poor and non-poor households in rural areas by approximately $21 billion a year.
Heat stress widen the gaps by more than $20 billion a year.
A 1° C increase in average long-term temperatures leads to a 53% increase in the farm incomes of poor households and a 33% decrease in their off-farm incomes, relative to non-poor households.