Desperate Actions Like Child Marriage are Symptoms of Poverty That Climate Change Triggers: Ghana Leader Samia Nkrumah

: Although child marriage might have culture-specific variations from country to country, “desperate actions” manifesting into actions like marrying off young women are a part and parcel in the fight against climate change, said Samia Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician and chairperson of the Convention People's Party. “The face of climate change is poverty and loss of dignity and that manifests itself into various things, including desperate action, like marrying off young women, for instance. I can recall, my father was one of the leaders of the independence movement, and it was the women activists, traders who actually took care of him.” But there were generally more men leading than women, she pointed out and said that this found reflection in the fight against climate change — much to its detriment. However, on the ground, there are many women working on the issue because as we keep saying, it is women who mostly have to find the means to feed their families.” While underscoring the damage that climate change does to human lives, she pointed out that poverty had to be thought in the context of reduction in agricultural productivity and the women, who globally, tend to the farms and their families.