A/HRC/31/51 also show that men and women have different preferences, needs, and priorities for the ways in which they respond to climate change. There is also a greater need for using gender-disaggregated data to inform evidence-based policy making as well as integrating a gender perspective into research on climate change and mitigation and adaptation strategies. 3. Access to information and technology 83. Women lack access to information about climate change, and this knowledge is critical to support adaptation, promote well-being and increase resilience to climate change. Women are more likely than men to adopt climate-adaptive and resilient practices, but most women do not have access to formal sources of information, such as extension agents. 84. Researchers and breeders often work in isolation from women and men farmers and are sometimes unaware of their needs and priorities beyond yield and resistance to pests and diseases. Moreover, extension agents and research organizations tend to consider many local varieties and breeds to be low-performing and inferior. As a result, national policies that provide incentives such as loans and direct payments for the use of modern varieties and breeds contribute to the loss of genetic diversity and affect traditional gender roles.82 4. Gender sensitive financial aid 85. Climate-related financial aid is not gender equal. Almost no climate aid goes to women, even though women experience a disproportionate amount of the impacts of climate change. 83 Accelerated efforts are needed to ensure that gender equality is mainstreamed throughout all climate change programs in all sectors, given the primary role that women play in natural resource management, farming, working, raising small livestock, and collecting fuel and water. Overcoming these challenges will require stronger partnerships between research organizations, government agencies and NGOs in order to continue to strengthen capacity of implementing organizations on gender and to build the evidence base on gender and climate change by monitoring and evaluating gender differences in participation in and outcomes of adaptation projects. A key challenge is the lack of gender experts in government climate change adaptation program. 84 VI. Why a gender analysis is necessary to address the right to food? 86. Gender analysis is important for understanding the causes of hunger and malnutrition, due to women’s special role in the food systems. The central role of women in food production, household food management and the important consequences of gender relations for food security have been widely documented. Yet, women cannot easily access productive assets including land, water, seed, machinery and livestock, credit and other financial services.85 Women also face discrimination to access to food as an individual consumer. 82 83 84 85 The World Bank, FAO, IFAD, Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook, Washington, 2009at p. 433 – 434. OECD Network on Gender Equality, “Making Climate Change finance work for women: Overview of the integration of gender equality in aid to climate change” , (2015). http://www.oecd.org/dac/gender-development/Making-Climate-Finance-Work-for-Women.pdf Ragasa at al (2014), http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128771 Op Cit, FAO, “The State of Food and Agriculture Women In Agriculture – Closing the Gender Gap for Development”, 19