He said the report titled 'Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate', which has been prepared on a global basis, will be studied at the state level and efforts made to strictly follow it.
The report says that women farmers particularly those in poor countries will be the worst-affected by climate change as they constitute the larger section of the agricultural workforce and also because that they have less access to other income-earning opportunities than their male counterparts.
Published 19 November 2009, 12:24 IST